Joint Venture and Agency Initiatives 

Joint venture and exclusive agency agreements serve to broaden and enhance the scope of services offered to clients.  Seaforth Engineering Group Inc. has several joint ventures and exclusive agency agreements with leading-edge engineering and geoscience firms. 

Veripos DGPS Services ( www.veripos.com ) has chosen Seaforth Engineering as the exclusive Canadian agents for their Inmarsat satellite-based and HF radio-based DGPS correction services. Veripos offers clients highly reliable, long-range DGPS corrections services with accuracy’s ranging from 3-5 metres to a few centimetres, depending on the hardware configuration and range from the base station(s). Veripos coverage has now been extended to cover the high activity areas of the world and is rapidly expanding toward a global, seamless system. 

Atlantic Orient Canada Inc. (www.atlanticorientcanada.ca/) is a partnership between Seaforth Engineering and Atlantic Orient Corporation of Vermont.  This company provides sale, installation and service capabilities for the global wind energy market and for select international markets such as India and other South Asia countries.  Atlantic Orient Canada is currently focused on marketing the AOC 15/50 (66kWe) wind turbine and also provides field service support for these and other turbines.  The company has been instrumental in providing significant Canadian content to the AOC 15/50 and in providing access to specific market opportunities appropriate to Canadian supplied goods and services.   

In Service Support Group Inc. (ISSG) is a consortium focused on delivering marine engineering and environmental services and project management solutions to the Canadian Navy.  Consortium members include Seaforth, Siemens Westinghouse of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Notra of Ottawa, Ontario. This consortium recently completed an important contract for the Canadian Navy for documentation management and engineering support for Canadian frigates and destroyers. 

CARIS LOTS (www.caris.com) is an alliance concentrated on delivering a joint Canadian International Development Agency/CARIS-Seaforth feasibility study and development of training and capacity building program for assisting African States in determining the outer limits of their juridical continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles. 

Exploration Consultants Limited (ECL) and Seaforth Engineering Group Inc. created a partnership in 2002 for the delivery of QA/QC services to the oil and gas sector.  The joint venture was formed to provide client representation during shallow hazard surveys, 2-D and 3-D seismic acquisition operations offshore eastern Canada.  To date, projects have been completed for clients offshore Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.  The scope of services includes quality control on the navigation and seismic data as well as HSE audits for compliance to applicable regulations and standards.