Royal IHC and Tompkins UK have joined forces to enter the deep and ultra-deep water, oil and gas geotechnical survey and site investigation market under the banner of TI Geosciences.
Tompkins is the the parent company of Modus Seabed Intervention and has extensive experience in offshore, subsea and geotechnical contracting fields. IHC brings engineering and advanced system design and development capabilities to the cooperation.
TI Geosciences
TI Geosciences will initially provide cone penetration test (CPT)/gravity coring services. These will be based on Tompkins' deep-push, buoyancy stabilised, deep-water CPT system – equipped with AP van den Berg's digital pressure compensated Icone, deployed from a Swire Pacific Offshore G-class platform supply vessel.
Remote seabed drilling services are also scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015, with the first in a range of IHC's Sword (sonic wireline-operated remote drill) systems, which will also be deployed from a Swire G-class vessel. Services will be ISO 19901-6 and -8 compliant.
The Sword systems will remain within IHC's research and development programme.
Supported by an initial investment of € 17 million, TI Geosciences will be based in Darlington, UK, with operating bases in Teeside, Singapore, and Saldahna Bay, South Africa.
