Integrated Sea Ice Services

Canatec works with sea-ice in cold frontier areas, worldwide. Canatec’s sea-ice expertise involves:

• Satellite image acquisition planning and analysis
• Forecasting drift over long, medium and short term time horizons of different types of ice
• Analyzing ice types and movement to advise marine and offshore petroleum operators 24/7
• Specialized software to analyze historical conditions of ice concentration, type and occurrence
• Beacons to measure short and long-term drift of ice and micromovement
• Acquiring multiple sources of complex environmental data, analyzing them and delivering advice to operators in remote settings with limited communications bandwidths
• Training Ice Observers and Ice Advisors.

Our customers include:

• offshore petroleum companies, operators of seismic vessels, drillships and tankers
• designers and fabricators of platforms and vessels
• merchant and tourism ship owners and operators
• public regulators, industry associations, certification agencies and insurers of offshore and marine activity
• national ice centres
• navies and coast guards.

Our corporate office is located in the technology park on the campus of the University of Calgary, in a building that provides full security, confidentiality and state of the art facilities.

Canatec's senior professionals have been in this business for more than three decades. Our in-house staff of scientists, engineers and managers in Calgary is augmented by a small group of associates who work with us on an exclusive basis from other parts of Canada. With close links to several universities and laboratories, and with access to a network of professional colleagues in Canada, USA, UK, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Chile and Argentina, we provide integrated sea-ice services in all polar and ice-infested marine regions of the world.