Sercel UNITE Registers High Sales in December
Sercel has confirmed the delivery of 14,500 channels of its industry-leading UNITE cableless land seismic acquisition system for the month of December 2012. This high monthly volume of deliveries results from sales of both single- and three-channel cableless units to five different customers, including three new UNITE customers. For the full year 2012 the UNITE attracted more than 10 new customers, increasing its total client base to nearly 30 customers.
With a total of 110,000 channels sold to date, the UNITE has rapidly become a standard in the industry, delivering higher acquisition performance and greater flexibility for deployment in the most challenging environments. The UNITE offers all the functionalities and advantages of cable-free acquisition, as well as advanced capabilities for data harvesting, real-time QC and retrieval.
The strong sales achieved so far by the UNITE system bode well for the market prospects of the new, more compact generation of UNITE, the RAU eX, launched at November’s SEG convention. Its larger-capacity internal battery gives the new system two weeks of operating autonomy and the addition of new data management software increases the system’s wireless data harvesting rate by 50 %.
Pascal Rouiller, CEO, Sercel, said: “2012 saw a strong increase in client demand for cableless land surveys, most notably in the Americas but also in Europe and China, and this led to an exceptional year for our UNITE cableless system. Our recent launch of the new-generation UNITE system, the RAU eX, attracted considerable industry interest and we are very confident that the system’s superior features will continue to appeal to an increasing number of customers.”