• TDI-Brooks’ in September will have a booth at the AAPG/SEG ICE Cancun, Mexico conference (6-9 September) as well as the 15th annual HGS/PESGB Conference on West African E&P in Houston (12-14 September). At the AAPG/SEG Cancun conference we will highlight our Mexican coring, heat flow and stratigraphic program with TGS. Please visit us at our

  • TDI-Brooks was recently acknowledged, referenced, and techniques described in articles that have been posted on our Geotechnical Publications page. These links provide a direct download: Rate-Effect Correction Methods for Free-Fall CPT Data in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico – An Operator’s Perspective Strength Characterization of Soft Marine Deposits off East Africa Using the CPT-Stinger Method Nuevos

  • Techniques used by TDI-Brooks International were recently published in the journal Geotecnia of the Mexican Society of Geotechnical Engineering. The article Nuevos equipos económicos para la caracterización de sitios costa fuera (New economical techniques for the characterization of off coast sites) features images of TDI-Brooks International crew, ships, and equipment, as well as diagrams produced by

  • A recent publication, Use of Novel High-Resolution 3D Marine Seismic Technology to Evaluate Quaternary Fluvial Valley Development and Geologic Controls on Shallow Gas Distribution, Inner Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, published in Interpretation Volume 4 Issue 1 (February 2016), thanked TDI-Brooks International for it’s contributions as vessel operators. The R/V Brooks McCall conducted operations in the Gulf of

  • Our new article Geotechnical Assessment for Cold Stacking of Semisubmersible MODU has just been published in World Dredging Mining & Construction. It describes the results of site investigation and foundation assessment for cold stacking a large, semisubmersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU). Introduction With the downturn of the oil & gas industry, many rig operators

  • The journal Basin Research is publishing an article coauthored by TDI-Brooks International’s Dr. James M. Brooks. The article, Subsurface fluid flow in the deep-water Kwanza Basin, offshore Angola, is available in our Geochemical Publications. The lead author, Dr. Christophe Serié, wrote the article during his doctoral studies at the University of Manchester under the supervision of

  • TDI-Brooks received a new contract award from the State of Louisiana, LA Oil Spill Commission for “Lab Services and Analysis for BP Oil Spill (Contract No. 44000067642)”. This is an indefinite delivery order contract for analyses of sediment and tissues samples for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and other hydrocarbon analyses.

  • Two TDI-Brooks International vessels, the RV GEOEXPLORER and RV GYRE, were recently recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard for their participation in the Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER). The program, sponsored by the United States Coast Guard, is a computer-based voluntary global ship reporting system used worldwide by search and rescue authorities to arrange for

  • The National Hydrocarbons Commission has approved a project for exploration of Mexico’s eastern offshore areas. TDI-Brooks International will be collecting one thousand piston cores for the project. The news was announced on the Oil & Gas Journal website. The full article can be viewed here.

  • TDI-Brooks was awarded a $4.2 Million, five-year, General Services Contract GS07F5388R entitled “National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Analytical Chemistry Programs 2014.”   The award is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS) Office with a performance period of 30, September 2014 to 29, September 2019.  The project is a continuation