Sercel has sold 10,000 channels of its high-end UNITE cable-free land seismic acquisition system to NIS, a Serbian oil and gas company in which Gazprom Neft has a majority shareholding.
After having successfully deployed the UNITE system since 2014 in Romania, NIS decided to purchase a new batch of UNITE for survey projects that the company will be conducting over the coming years. In combination with the Sercel SG-5, a high-sensitivity 5-Hz single-sensor geophone, UNITE offers NIS a superior, light, efficient and flexible solution for the most complex environments.
The UNITE node, RAUeX, is fully autonomous and can start acquiring data immediately, without the need to set up or maintain a complex wireless infrastructure. Its ability to monitor and transmit wirelessly, on demand, all QC parameters as well as field noise levels means that NIS will have full control over all of their survey operations at all times.
Miodrag Bukvic, director of NIS Naftagas Oilfield Services, said, “The results from three cable-less surveys we recently conducted with UNITE were very positive. We were able to mobilize less personnel and vehicles and also reduce our exploration costs and HSE risks. In addition, we noticed a significant acceleration in the progress of our operations in populated areas, resulting in the completion of one survey ahead of schedule.”
