Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, an oilfield service company, provides geophysical services worldwide. The company provides various seismic and reservoir services, including acquisition, processing, interpretation, and field evaluation. The floating production unit was demerged in 2006 and listed as a Petrojarl ASA

Petrojarl

Teekay Petrojarl is the largest Floating Production Storage and Offloading operator in the North Sea with a daily production of 339,000 barrels of oil per day and a storage capacity of of crude oil...

 on Oslo Stock Exchange

Oslo Stock Exchange

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. The company is headquartered in Lysaker

Lysaker

Lysaker is a section of and a postal code area of the Norwegian municipality of Bærum, just west of Oslo.Geographically, it is bordered by Lysakerelven on the east, which also forms the border to Oslo; Fornebu to the south; Stabekk to the west; and Jar to the north...

, Norway

Norway

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; there are also major offices in Houston, Texas

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, US

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; Weybridge

Weybridge

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, UK

United Kingdom

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 and Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Australia

Australia

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Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) was founded in 1991, to focus on the production of high grade seismic data for oil companies.

PGS operates in two primary business areas - seismic and production - through three operating units: Marine Geophysical, Onshore Geophysical, and Production. In addition, a Reservoir business unit provides reservoir expertise.

The PGS group employs approximately 2,800 people and has offices and operations in more than 20 countries worldwide, its revenues for 2006 were approximately 1.3 billion USD.

The chairman of the Board of Directors is Francis Gugen; board members are Harald Norvik

Harald Norvik

Harald Norvik is a former chairman, president, and chief executive of Norwegian oil giant Statoil. Since 2007 he has been Chairman of Telenor....

, Holly Van Deursen, Daniel J. Piette

Daniel J. Piette

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, Annette Malm Justad

Annette Malm Justad

Annette Malm Justad is a Norwegian businessperson.As education she has two master's degrees, one in technology management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and another in chemical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology...

, Carol Bell and Ingar Skaug

Ingar Skaug

Ingar Skaug, was CEO at Wilh. Wilhelmsen from 2003 to 2010.He has previously held the positions as president and CEO at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and Wilhelmsen Lines. Before taking up positions in the WW-group, Skaug was vice president and deputy chief operating officer in the Norwegian part...

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