Dolphin - entering the Asia Pacific region with a large 3D contract award in Australia

Oslo, Norway, 23 December 2013

Dolphin has been awarded a significant contract with TGS in the Great Australian Bight to acquire 8.300 km2 of 3D contract seismic. The high-capacity 3D vessel M/V Polar Duchess will be used for this initial first season of work, commencing for an estimated 6 months of work in early January 2014.

The survey will be acquired with a large 12 streamer configuration  with separations above 100m, and 8 km streamer length.  

Polar Duchess has a proven safe capacity track record towing wide spreads in such frontier exploration areas. Dolphin's SHarp broadband acquisition technique shall be utilised for the survey.


For further information, please contact:

Atle Jacobsen, CEO
Tel:+47 97 71 53 36
E-mail:atle.jacobsen@dolphingeo.com

Erik Hokholt, CFO
Mobile:+47 90 75 60 64
E-mail:erik.hokholt@dolphingeo.com

Dolphin Group ASA
Helsfyr Atrium
Innspurten 15
0663 OSLO

Phone:+47 23 16 70 00
Fax:+47 23 16 71 80         

www.dolphingeo.com

Dolphin Group ASA is the parent company of Dolphin Geophysical AS, a global full-range, asset light supplier of marine geophysical services. Dolphin operates a fleet of new generation, high capacity seismic vessels and offers contract seismic surveys, Multi-Client projects and processing services on a worldwide basis.

Dolphin Group ASA is listed at Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE ticker: DOLP).