Oil and gas companies have an increasing requirement for improved data quality for both exploration and improved oil recovery from existing fields. This has led to an increasing need for multi component seismic data acquisition. These purpose built vessels will add great capacity and flexibility in our drive to meet this growing market, Michael Scott, CEO in RXT, comments.


“Sanco Spirit” will be chartered from Norwegian Sanco Holding AS. Sanco will, in April 2008, also deliver the sister vessel “Sanco Star,” which was ordered earlier this year. The vessels are being built at Vaagland Båtbyggeri AS in Vågland, Norway.


As for “Sanco Star”, the time charter is for a period of five years, with options of five more. Both vessels will be rigged with state of the art seismic equipment to operate as combined shooting and cable handling vessels for multicomponent seafloor seismic data acquisition.