TGS and Allton sign agreement to accelerate OBN operations

Allton and TGS have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement to deploy Allton’s deepwater ocean-bottom node (OBN) deployment and recovery technology.

Under the agreement, TGS secures exclusive rights and priority access to Allton A1 units for the duration of a confidential financial arrangement between the two companies.

Making OBN viable in more places

The Allton A1 Seismic OBN System is designed to simplify how nodes are deployed on and recovered from the seabed. By reducing operational complexity, cost and logistics, it opens the door to OBN surveys in emerging and frontier basins where conventional methods have struggled to be economical.

Together, TGS and Allton aim to bring high-resolution seabed seismic imaging earlier into the exploration cycle, helping exploration and development companies reduce uncertainty and make better-informed investment decisions.

What’s next

The partners will evaluate opportunities across multiple basins worldwide, giving clients better access to high-quality geophysical data.

Nils Haugestad, CEO of Allton, sees the A1 system as an economic way to acquire OBN data in areas where it has until now been cost prohibitive, and looks forward to commercialising the technology together with TGS in both new and existing markets.