Integrated Sea Ice Services
Canatec works with sea-ice in cold frontier areas,
worldwide. Canatec's services and products
include:
- consulting projects involving sea ice;
- ice management teams for vessel transits, offshore seismic and
drilling operations;
- design and fabrication of beacons for measuring ice drift;
- software for historical analysis of ice conditions and ice drift forecasting;
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training and certification of Ice Observers for marine activities in
polar seas.
Steel Drilling Caisson in Beaufort Sea
Our customers include:
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offshore petroleum companies, operators of seismic vessels, drillships
and tankers
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designers and fabricators of platforms and vessels
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merchant and tourism ship owners
and operators
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public regulators, industry associations, certification agencies and
insurers of offshore and marine activity
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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.
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