FACTS AND FIGURES
ARGAS undertakes the most challenging geophysical data acquisition projects in the Middle East and North Africa. This page provides a brief and informative facts and figures of the company:
General
- Founded – January 1966
- Current Ownership – Industrialization & Energy Services Company (TAQA) owns 51% of shares; French-owned CGG owns the remaining 49%
- In 2014 ARGAS became the majority (98%) shareholder in ARDISEIS
- Number of employees – 2,000 to 3,000
Geography
We cover the Middle East and North Africa through our legal entities ARGAS in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi; and ARDISEIS in Egypt, Dubai / Jebel Ali FZ and Oman.
We are also a qualified vendor in Kurdistan and Sudan.
- Headquarters – Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- International offices :
Operations
- Geophysical data acquisition, processing and analysis for land, marine, transition zone and ocean bottom projects.
- We opened Technology Center in 2009 and will be moving to our Center of Excellence in Dhahran Techno Valley, the hub of technology in the Eastern Province.
- We have acquired over 120,000 sq. km using latest seismic technology in the last 5 years.
- First production project with unconstrained vibroseis acquisition.
- We support local community by sponsoring vocational training, local scientific communities and co-op training for universities. On average more than 20 people a year take advantage of this opportunity.
- Major Clients:
1- Saudi Aramco
2- PDO (Oman)
3- QP
4- Apache
5- Occidental
6- Shell
7- ADNOC
8- KOC
9- KJO
Milestones
- We acquire in excess of 15 Terabytes of seismic data every single day.
- We are first users of new technologies: e.g. Sercel SeaRay 300, Sercel 508XT, and Nomad 65 Neo Vibrators.
- We were the first to shoot land vibroseis in high channel configuration.
- We also established a world land production record with 44,000 VPs in 24 hours in the Saudi Arabian desert in 2009.
- We carried out the world’s largest OBC operation in the Arabian Gulf for Saudi Aramco and for Khafji Joint Operation (KJO) in the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
- We are the first to acquire 1 million source points with 508 XT.