Softer than expected US GoM round
The August US GoM licensing round pre-sale statistics were just released and showed a 4% decline in the number of bids from last year, and 35% from the March round. The number of companies was unchanged, but due to fewer bids, competition was low. We believe expectations for this round were higher and consider this another reminder that the seismic market remains volatile with continued earnings risk.CGG is a global participant in the geophysical seismic industry. Co. manufactures geophysical equipment and provides marine, land, and airborne data acquisition services. Co. also provides geosciences services, including data imaging, seismic data characterization, geosciences and petroleum engineering consulting services, and collecting, developing and licensing geological data. Co.'s clients are in oil and gas exploration and production industies. Co. divides its activities into four segments: Equipment, Contractual Data Acquisition, Geology, Geophysics and Reservoir (GGR), and Non-Operated Resources, including eight business lines, six Corporate functions, and four Group Departments.
Petroleum Geo-Services is engaged in providing geophysical services and oil and gas production services. As of Dec. 31, 2001, Co. operated six Ramform design vessels in its marine seismic data acquisition operations.
Spectrum ASA is a Norway-based company, which provides seismic data and seismic imaging services to the global oil and gas industry. It operates within two divisions, namely Multi-Client services and Seismic Imaging. The Company's library of Multi-Client data specializes in regional coverage and includes projects from oil producing regions of the world. The Seismic Imaging offers data processing services, such as time imaging, velocity analysis, depth imaging and model building, among others. The Company is organized into four regions: North and South America, North West Europe and Africa, Mediterranean and Middle East, and Asia Pacific.The Company wholly owned six subsidiaries, such as Spectrum Geo Ltd, Fugro, Carmot Seismic AS, Carmot Processing AS, Spectrum Geo Inc and Spectrum Geo Pte Ltd, among others, as well as had two dormant joint ventures.
TGS Nopec Geophysical provides geoscience data to oil and gas exploration and production companies worldwide. In addition to global geophysical and geological data libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, digital well logs, production data and directional surveys, Co. also provides advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products, permanent reservoir monitoring and data integration solutions.
DNB Markets is the investment banking arm of DNB Bank ASA and is focused primarily on the Nordic region, as well as internationally on niches such as global shipping, energy and related services, and seafood. DNB Markets offers services in FICC, Equities and Investment Banking advisory from offices in Oslo, Stockholm, London, Singapore and New York. Equity research coverage is offered on c250 Nordic companies. DNB was ranked no.2 in Extel Nordic Research 2017. The DNB Markets’ Credit and FICC Macro & FX Research teams are repeatedly highly rated by Prospera Nordic Institutional Investor Surveys.
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