UK-based geotechnical and marine firm MG3 has purchased the DP2 vessel Ocean Spirit complete with a geotechnical site investigation equipment spread.
MG3 took delivery of the multirole DP2 vessel Ocean Spirit (formerly Highland Spirit) which will be the latest addition to the DP fleet offered by MG3 to the marine geoscience and ROV survey industry.
The Ocean Spirit will offer a modern cost-effective and integrated and flexible solutions for geophysical site surveys, environmental and geotechnical borehole site investigations together with ROV capabilities.
The Ocean Spirit is well proven for providing high quality geotechnical investigations and geophysics surveys with excellent DP station keeping and versatile layout.
MG3 are immediately implementing upgrades to the vessel and equipment spread and vessel will be made immediately available to the market before end May 2016.
The vessel has an onboard geotechnical laboratory and permanent fully heave compensated geotechnical rig and CPTU system and will be equipped with multibeam and 2D high resolution seismic and geophysics survey spread, environmental equipment plus inspection/work class ROV.