Three TDI-Brooks vessels begin 2025 in Africa

U.S.-headquartered TDI-Brooks is taking three of its vessels for work in West and Northwest Africa in the first quarter of 2025.

The 75-meter-long DP-II vessel Nautilus, which joined TDI-Brooks’ fleet in the summer of 2023, is headed to Namibia for a deepwater “heavy” geotechnical project where it will use the jumbo piston cores (JPC) and CPT Stinger geotechnical tools, followed by a second shallow water deep push CPT (Manta-200) project.

These projects are expected to be complete by early March, with the vessel then available for other projects in West Africa.

Nautilus previously worked on the U.S. East Coast for offshore wind assignments, after having completed a six-month retrofit campaign in Las Palmas, as well as on a geotechnical survey assignment offshore Trinidad and Tobago and a geotechnical program offshore Türkiye.

Furthermore, Proteus is set to continue working in Nigeria through most of the first quarter on various analog and 2D HR survey projects, while Gyre will be working on various environmental and geotechnical projects in Northwest Africa through February.

Proteus was previously in Suriname, acquiring successive EBS projects for two international oil companies (IOCs) aside from a buoy rotation program for a third IOC, after which it was scheduled to be available in South America in August 2024 with full geotechnical, survey, and EBS capabilities.

Gyre was also in Suriname for a four-month-long seep hunting multi-client program, becoming open for new work in October/November last year.