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During 2006, TDI-Brooks using the R/V JW POWELL completed additional pre-drill environmental baseline survey (EBS) cruises in Nigeria for Chevron (OPL-247) Petrobras (OPL-315), Statoil (OPL-218) and SHELL through FugroNigeria in OPL-245, 322 and Block H, respectively. Figure 1 shows an updated map of all the pre- and post-drill EBSs that TDI-Brooks has conducted offshore Nigeria

Reliance Industries Ltd. on 20 January 2006 awarded TDI-Brooks’ a contract entitled “Coring, Heat Flow, Geochemistry and Microbiology in Various Blocks Offshore India”. TDI-Brooks mobilized its research vessel, the R/V GEOEXPLORER, from West Africa to India starting the acquisition for the study on 28 April 2006. The core and heat flow acquisition followed a multibeam

TDI-Brooks’ affiliate in Brazil, GSI-Brooks, in March 2006 signed a contract with PETROBRAS to provide TDI-Brooks’ research vessel the R/V GYRE for a two-year contract. The R/V GYRE was previously Texas A&M University’s (TAMU’s) research vessel operated by its Department of Oceanography. TDI-Brooks purchased this vessel from TAMU in November 2005. The contract is a

The Deep Chemosynthetic Community Characterization Cruise was conducted on the Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) research vessel R/V ATLANTIS and the ALVIN Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) from 7 May � 2 June 2006, and was the second cruise conducted for this contract. The cruise mobilized and embarked from Key West, Florida, and de-mobilized at Galveston,

TDI-Brooks recently conducted an analytical and historical seepage investigation for a deep water Gulf of Mexico operator around a field that came on stream in late 2004. On December 16th, pronounced oil slicks were observed approximately 3-miles to the northwest of the operator’s field in the Green Canyon lease area. Figure 1 shows a photograph

TDI-Brooks as a subcontractor to Kinnetic Laboratories Inc. (KLI) completed a project for the Prince William Sound (PWS) Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (RCAC). The RCAC is interested in the long-term input of hydrocarbons from the operations of the Alyeska Marine Terminal (AMT) and other anthropogenic sources of hydrocarbon input into Port Valdez and surrounding waters.

TDI-Brooks announces the availability of two multi-use, 45m research vessels for charter in West Africa for 2005 – 2006. The RV GeoExplorer and RV Powell are outfitted for multi-beam survey, geotechnical and geochemical coring, heat flow, environmental sampling and hazard survey operations. The JW Powell has recently been outfitted with a Kongsberg EM1002 multi-beam survey system

During March and April 2005, TDI-Brooks using the R/V GEOEXPLORER completed two pre-drill environmental baseline survey (EBS) cruises for ESSO and SHELL in OPL-209 and OPL-322, respectively. Figure 1 shows an updated map of all the pre- and post-drill EBSs that TDI-Brooks has conducted offshore Nigeria using the R/V GEOEXPLORER. The GEOEXPLORER has conducted virtually

During June 2004, TDI-Brooks was contracted by ChevronTexaco Exploration and Production Company to conduct a geotechnical coring site investigation in their Tahiti Development Project in the Gulf of Mexico. Locations of interest within Blocks 596, 640, and 641 of the Green Canyon Area were examined. TDI-Brooks collected several jumbo piston, standard piston and box cores

During January and February 2005, TDI-Brooks was contracted by Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc. to undertake a geotechnical site investigation in the south-central portion of the Alaminos Canyon Area in the Gulf of Mexico. Locations of interest within Block 857 and 813 were examined. The water depth at these locations ranges from 7,700 to