With oil and gas developments becoming larger, more complex and in ever deeper water, a growing need exists for advanced survey services and technology. Offshore engineering is too costly for error, so survey results must be accurate and reliable, repeatable over time, cost-effective and timely, and satisfy the client's quality assurance standards.

Fugro develops innovative survey methods and customized procedures for both shallow water and technically challenging deep-water construction projects, drawing upon its world-wide experience and expertise to create unique solutions to confront the difficulties that construction engineers face to develop innovative new techniques that allow for optimising the construction of complex facilities in these demanding conditions

Understanding the client's needs, Fugro is structured to provide construction survey project management from initial concept to final completion of the contract, whereby QA is developed within the first procedures and carried throughout the job.

Clients doing business with Fugro can benefit from the individual and collective experience of hundreds of survey professionals at Fugro companies worldwide. Through shared technology and experience gained from successful deep-water projects such as ExxonMobil Kizomba-A/B, BP's Greater Plutonio, Total's Girassol and many other projects outside West Africa, Fugro's Offshore Survey Division can provide total survey capability.

Fugro's subsea positioning services include:

• Accurate well batch setting
• Accurate pile placement, such as for TLPs
• Well and pile heighting
• Relative positioning using Finetrack INS
• Spoolpiece metrology