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This year the Deep Gulf Habitats Project Team Members were among 14 groups to receive one of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) highest honors, the Cooperative Conservation Award . The Honor Awards Ceremony was held May 9, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. in the Sidney Yates Auditorium, Main Interior Building located at 1849 C Street, NW,

TGS-NOPEC Invest AS in March 2007 contracted TDI-Brooks Internationa Inc. to conduct a large surface geochemical exploration (SGE) coring and heat flow (HF) program offshore Indonesia as part of their integrated geophysical and geochemical survey in Indonesian waters during 2006 and 2007. The program objective is to evaluate the hydrocarbon prospectivity and present-day geologic/sedimentological/geomorphic environment

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Woodside Energy (NA) Ltd. in October 2006 awarded TDI-Brooks and it local partner, Tibisti Oil, a contract entitled Environmental Baseline Survey, Offshore Libya that also included a geotechnical coring component. The survey involved environmental sampling and geotechnical coring around potential well sites in Contract Areas 35, 36, 52 and 53, offshore Libya. The objectives of

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,