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The Q3 2015 Update. This quarter has seen us close out our biggest and most interesting project of the year, offshore Madagascar. Air strikes, illness and bad weather all contributed to make this a challenging project delivered over the last few months. A huge thank...

Sandwich Box Mark 3 The Mark 3 version of the Sandwich Box independent vibrator test system is under the final stages of development and testing. Once the development and testing has been completed the new mark 3 version will boast the benefits of: Differential inputs...

Managing Change "The times they are a changing", so wrote Bob Dylan in 1963. Skip forward 52 years and change is most definitely upon us in our exploration business. Whether it be improving the cost effectiveness of acquiring data or setting more rigorous HSE targets...

The Q2 2015 Update A great quarter so far for Exploration Services with project wins in Europe, US and Africa (East and West!). We recently returned from the EAGE in Madrid where we met with some of our great clients. Thanks to all that stopped by. We also took the...

This quarter I had the opportunity to interview Bruce Calderbank. Bruce has over thirty-seven years of worldwide offshore experience under his belt and when not out on the open seas lives with his wife in Alberta, Canada. So having met Bruce on transit through Reading...

The start to the year has already been successful and busy. A big thank you to the consultants that have delivered these projects and those who are currently working hard flying the Verif-i flag. We are looking forward to Q2 and have some exciting opportunities in the...

The Q1 2015 Update Since our last newsletter when downturn was on the cards we have recently doubled our proposal output from the last quarter in Exploration Services despite the oil price falling further. We believe that working clever and partnering with our clients...

The new Mark III version of our Sandwich Box independent vibrator test system is now on sale. As every product of ours is vigorously tested this will ensure our product meets the requirements of the users. The new Mark III version of the Sandwich Box benefits from:...

The Q4 2014 Update I am pleased to report we are due to complete our 2nd most successful quarter this year, All the hard work from the consultants in the field and my team in the office is paying off with repeat business and new clients choosing and trusting Verif-i...

Despite difficult market conditions (that's known as British understatement) we're very pleased with the activity levels across both land and marine this year. When the going gets tough... the tough get going - to Verif-i to ensure that their seismic acquisition...

2014 has been a bit of a rollercoaster with oil prices almost halving from $110 a barrel at the start of the year to around $60 at the end. All businesses that we provide products and services to are looking anew at their suppliers to ensure they are getting value for...

Testif-i Light is now being used in the field with our Verif-i QCs and free of charge to our clients. Testif-i Light is a sub-set of the industry-leading Testif-i Test Processing software and is designed for day to day use by Verif-i QCs in the field. Testif-i Light...

Making land seismic crews and land transportation safer I recently conducted an HSE audit on a land crew in Europe, possibly connected with my previous experience of the same crew from some years back. As most people in the seismic business know, land Transportation...

The Q3 2014 Update An interesting, challenging and successful last few months for the Exploration Services team and Verif-i for a number of reasons. The projects we are working on in Kurdistan have recently highlighted how the geo-political environment can have an...

A word from Tony Broomfield, Verif-i's HSE Advisor Like a lot of consultants I have spent a great deal of time working in the MENA regions and at certain times of the year the Middle East can provide a number of challenging issues for HSSE people. The most obvious is...