Polarcus Limited (OAX: PLCS) announced today that Polarcus Nadia AS, a member of the Polarcus Group, today took delivery of Polarcus Nadia, a modern 12 streamer 3D seismic vessel built to the ULSTEIN SX124 design. The vessel was built at Drydocks World – Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Polarcus Nadia is a purpose-built seismic vessel incorporating the innovative ULSTEIN X-BOW® and designed to meet the exacting specifications for offshore seismic operations worldwide. The 88.8m double-hulled vessel incorporates some of the most recent developments in maritime systems and is fitted out with the most advanced seismic technology commercially available, including the latest generation Sentinel® solid streamers. Polarcus Nadia is one of the safest and most environmentally sound seismic vessels in the market with diesel-electric propulsion, high specification catalytic convertors, DP2 dynamic positioning, and advanced bilge water cleaning, enabling the vessel to conform to existing and envisaged IMO and Class rules and to comply with the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) stringent CLEAN-DESIGN and COMF-V(3) class notations.

Polarcus Nadia will transit imminently to West Africa to commence a charter for TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (TGS).