Schlumberger announced the launch of the Western Spirit, the seventh Q-Marine vessel to join the WesternGeco fleet. The vessel will begin work immediately with a high-specification 4-D survey in the North Sea for Statoil.


Equipped with Dynamic Spread Control (DSC) -- the new WesternGeco automated vessel, source and streamer steering technology -- the Western Spirit provides superior repeatability for improved time-lapse studies for reservoir monitoring and increased accuracy for sophisticated Q-enabled over/under and rich/wide-azimuth surveys that help characterize complex subsurface environments.


Q-Marine is proprietary WesternGeco technology for enhanced reservoir-quality acquisition, processing and inversion. For additional information on the capabilities of Q-Marine, please visit http://www.westerngeco.com/q-technology.