TDI-Brooks'
R/V JW POWELL just completed a several month deployment in
Angola and is currently conducting various HR site and hazard surveys, environmental baseline surveys (
EBS ), and geotechnical coring projects in
Nigeria . TDI-Brooks has a local office in Port Harcourt, TDI-Brooks Nigeria Ltd., that supports our Nig
erian operations. The POWELL has a few unique capabilities not available on the GX and GYRE including
Jumbo Piston Coring (60-70-ft, 4-inch ID, 6,000-lb coring). The POWELL is also outfitted with a
Kongsberg EM-1002 hull-mounted
multibeam system. The POWELL will continue to work on the spot market in West Africa (mainly in the Angola to Nigeria corridor) through the 2nd quarter.
The GX will be conducting a 1,500 core SGE and 250-site heat flow program for TGS-NOPEC, in ten (10) frontier basins offshore Indonesia . This program will occupy the GX through the 1st quarter of 2008, although we do have the capability to conduct some other few week-long programs with the GX in Indonesia , Malaysia and nearby surrounding areas during this period. We also have access to other vessels for field work out of Jakarta . 
as well as regular piston and box coring capabilities for geotechnical projects in the Gulf. It can also be used for site and hazard survey work, metocean and oceanographic studies in the Gulf/Caribbean/Northern South America areas. It is currently working the spot market in the Gulf of Mexico . 
TDI-Brooks recently conducted an EBS and geotechnical coring cruise offshore 
TDI-Brooks is mobilizing the 
In June, TDI-Brooks' project team will be conducting a month long ROV cruise at deep-water seep and hardground sites in the Gulf of Mexico for its Minerals Management Service ( MMS ) funded project entitled "Investigations of Chemosynthetic Communities on the
Lower Continental Slope of the Gulf of Mexico" (CHEMO-III project for short). The project involves the NOAA ship the 
