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1 Deep Water Marine Surveys Deep Sea International Consortium Workshop Rio de Janeiro, February 01st & 2nd Fred Marins Marketing Director

2 Key Aspects Gardline: Since employees 14 Multi Purpose vessels Leading contractor for Oil & Gas, Ports & Harbours, Telecomunication, Ocean Mining, Renewables and Governement Projects Gardline Brasil Founded employees in Brazil 1 x Deep Water Survey Vessel 1 x Shallow Water Survey Vessel +20 surveys per year

3 Gardline Group

4 Specialists in Marine Sciences Marine Geology & Geophysics Environmental Surveys Seabed sampling, Water Column sampling; Habitat Assessments; Plankton Surveys MetOcean Surveys Geochemical Surveys Piston Corer / Heat Flow High & Ultra High Resolution Seismic Surveys Geotechnical Investigations (CPT, Piston Corer, Vibrocorer, boreholes) Emergency Response Surveys Surface & SubSea Positioning Services (Rig Move, Metrology, Construction Support) Marine Wildlife Surveys MMOs & PAMS

5 Where we are?

6 Deep Water Fleet

7 National Fleet MV Ocean Stalwart

8 National Fleet MV Carmen Ocean EYE POS-MV CTD Rosette ADCP Survey.Lab MBES Sub Bottom Profiler Env.Lab

9 South America Largest Equipment Pool

10 Selection of Still & Video Cameras 50m 400m

11 ROV Services SAAB Seaeye Cougar XT Dimensions Depth Rating: 2000m Lenght: 1515mm Height: 790mm Width: 1000mm Payload: 80kg Survey Tools: Octans 3000 Fibre Optic Gyro Teledyne TSS440 Pipetracker Blue View Forward Scanning Sonar Dual câmera booms for pipeline inspection Multibeam Echo Sounder with DVL High Resolution Camera Systems

12 ROV Services Triton MRV Dimensions Depth Rating: 1000m Lenght: 3500mm Height: 1700mm Width: 2100mm Payload: 200kg HPU Size: 100 HP Survey Tools: Octans 3000 Fibre Optic Gyro Teledyne TSS440 Pipetracker Blue View Forward Scanning Sonar Dual câmera booms for pipeline inspection Multibeam Echo Sounder with DVL High Resolution Camera Systems

13 ROV Services Triton MRV4 Dimensions Depth Rating: 3000m Lenght: 3200mm Height: 1900mm Width: 2000mm Payload: 250kg HPU Size: 150 HP Survey Tools: Octans 3000 Fibre Optic Gyro Teledyne TSS440 Pipetracker Blue View Forward Scanning Sonar Dual câmera booms for pipeline inspection Multibeam Echo Sounder with DVL High Resolution Camera Systems

14 Integrated Marine Surveys

15 Gardline experience Geophysical, Geotechnical and Environmental data represents major areas of interest for Oil & Gas companies Seabed Morfology, Soil Resistance and Habitat Assessments are key elements for subsea engineering and biodiversity studies and can be easily combined onto a single survey cruise Multidisciplinary personnel + Multi Purpose vessels = cost effective soltuion

16 Key Projects in Brazil

17 Key Projects in Brazil LEPLAC LEPLAC Project UNCLOS SURVEY Period: March /2009 June /2010 Water depths: m Client: Brazilian Navy km MBES, SBP km Multichannel Seismic

18 Key Projects in Brazil Pipeline Route Surveys Vessel: MV Carmen Scope: MBES, SSS, SBP, Piston Coring Duration: 24 months Water depths: 15m-200m

19 Key Projects in Brazil Pipeline Route Surveys Location: NE Brazil Depth: 10 to 100 meters Corridor width: 1000 meters Equipment: Reason Seabat 7125 MBES, Van Veen Grab Sampler

20 Key Projects in Brazil Pipeline Route Surveys Location: SE Brazil Depth: 10 to 90 meters Corridor width: 300 meters Pipe Equipment: Reason Seabat 7125 (MBES), Edghtech 4200 (SSS) and Kongsberg Geopulse (SBP) Side Scan Sonar Image Grided Surface (MBES) Pipe Pipe Pipe Free spam

21 Key Projects in Brazil Pipeline Route Surveys Location: NE Brazil Depth: 10 to 100 meters Corridor width: 1000 meters Equipment: Reason Seabat T-20 (MBES), Edghtech 4200 (SSS) and Kongsberg Geopulse Plus (SBP) Side Scan Sonar Data Carbonatic Formation Paleochannel Grided Bathynetry data

22 Key Projects in Brazil Santos Basin Environmental Baseline Survey Santos Basin EBS 2014 Vessel: Kommandor ADCP casts, +350 seabed samples/ +150 water samples Duration: 45 days Water depths: m

23 Key Projects in Brazil Barreirinhas Environmental Baseline Survey Location: Barreirinhas Vessel: Ocean Stalwart +60 seabed samples/ +50 water samples / Habitats Assessment Duration: 45 days Water Depths: 25m-2500m

24 Key Projects in Brazil Barreirinhas Environmental Baseline Survey

25 Key Projects in Brazil Environmental Baseline Survey Vessel: MV Ocean Stalwart Scope: seabed samples ; water samples ; +300 coring samples ; Habitats Assessment ; Piston Coring, Vibrocoring

26 Key Projects in Brazil Marine Wildlife PAMS Passive Acoustic Monitoring Survey 2014 Vessel: MV Oceanic Champion Scope: 3 x PAMS Operators (24 coverage) Duration: 240 days

27 Key Projects in Brazil Marine Geotechnics Geotechnical Investigations - Location: Rota-2 & Rota-3 - Duration: 60 days - Approx 150 CPTs - Approx 80 VC (3m) - WD- 15m-2500m

28 Key Projects in Brazil Barreirinhas MetOcean Vessel: MV Clarisse Scope: 3 x Mooring Lines + 1 x Met Buoy + 1x Wave Buoy Water depths: 25m-1900m

29 Key Projects in Brazil ES MetOcean Surveys Vessel: MV Carmen Scope: 2 x Sub-Surface Mooring Lines Water depths: 1900m 2600m

30 Key Projects in Brazil Frade MetOcean System Watchdog Buoy Location: Bacia de Campos Mooring Design: 1500m real time system: ADCPs, CTDs, SCM, Met & Wave

31 Key Projects in Brazil LIBRA MetOcean Vessel: MV Carmen Scope: 1 x Deep water buoy real time data trasmition 1 x deep water mooring line Water depths: 2200m

32 Key Projects in Brazil Cable Route Surveys Scope: Geophysical Cabel Route Survey Routes: SEABRAS-1, BRUSA, SACS Water depths: 0m 4500m

33 Decomissioning Surveys Experience with most important guidelines: DECC Departament for Energy & Climate Change (2013) OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

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