Mr. Kelvin Chow
Mr.Kelvin Chow joined GeoView in September 2024 and brings over 30 years of extensive experience in the global offshore wind and oil & gas industries. He is focusing on enhancing QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment), ensuring efficient report delivery, and driving customer-centric operations.
Kelvin began his career as a geophysicist, progressed through roles in consulting and business development, and served as the Director of Marine Geophysical Asia at Fugro Singapore. Subsequently, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at a prominent company in Taiwan’s offshore wind market, where he played a key role in strengthening its presence through strategic collaborations.
Q: GeoView’s strengths in the domestic and international offshore wind industry
GeoView’s biggest strengths are obviously the valuable experiences and local knowhow accumulated from the last 20 years working at the coastal and deeper water offshore off of most of the coastline of Korea; in addition to several overseas projects experience in the Philippines. Over the years, Geoview has cultivated international Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) competencies in close collaboration with foreign developers. Our HSE standards, benchmarking against international practices, have been highly appreciated and commented by our clients. We have dedicated HSE team whom are not only ensuring all documentations and procedures are up to date but more important is to ensure timely and efficient response capabilities are available on-site.
In terms of facility and survey capabilities, GeoView has invested heavily in vessels and equipment, strengthen our survey capabilities significantly. We currently own four survey vesseles, additionally, we are capable of providing tailored solutions through close collaboration with partners with overseas experiences.
Under the guidance of several experienced personnel with international project handling exposures, a Data Processing and Reporting center has been consolidated in our head office based in Busan. In addition to seabed and sub-seabed data interpretation and reporting, we have trained individuals to perform advance processing on multi-channel ultra-high resolution seismic (UHRS) data, including collaboration with local institutions in R&D projects to further enhance the quality of the processed seismic data.
In preparation for the upcoming needs anticipated from OWF development programs, Geoview has an intensive list of development and expansion programs. To name a few, we are planning effective and efficient equipment setup to perform UXO detection survey in both marine, shallow water, and coastal regions; R&D program in un-man surface surveying platform (USV), and acquiring suitable ROV (Light Work Class) and tooling tailored to the need of O&M requirements. All these on-going and near future technological enhance would certainly improve our competitive edge in the marine environmental and engineering survey in supporting the offshore wind industry; locally as well as internationally in the near future.
Q: Any partnerships or fieldwork that GeoView is engaged in
Geoview has years of extensive experience in marine geophysical survey; apart from inviting suitable experts to provide improvement trainings to our team, we mostly perform all geophysical survey projects with own resources. This inclusive 2D UHRS projects, and the near future UXO detection survey and ROV inspection survey projects.
As we are at the early stages of starting up on our geotechnical service lines, we are in collaboration with a few experienced companies in the engineering and design of our drilling system, operating and maintaining our drilling system. We choose our working partners diligently with focus on high HSE performance record, good quality services and technology transfer agreement in preparing for our company vision to become a fully self-sufficient operating company.
Apart from operational projects, Geoview has a R&D division which has been actively participating in several research and development projects with reputable institutions. For example, GeoView is involved in a cooperation agreement with Ulsan University and Equinor on the research and development in utilising underwater drones for the maintenance of floating offshore wind structures. Other than that, we are working with Seoul National University to develop 3D models of 2D lines using FWI (Full Waveform Inversion) method on Geoview acquired 2D UHRS data.
Q: Insights and determination for Geoview
2024 has been a critical turning point for GeoView. In addition to introducing new leaders at the senior management level, focuses have been on further strengthening equipment and vessel capabilities. Geotechnical vessel ‘GeoStar’ has been revamped with 30-meter spuds and 4-point moorings in achieving efficient and rapid downhole geotechnical sampling and in-situ testing, and seabed CPT and sampling activities, simultaneousy. It is scheduled to perform her first project OWF development field in November.
Since joining the company, I will be committed to contributing to the growth and innovation of our services, especially in the rapidly evolving offshore wind industry.
Looking forward, my determination lies in advancing GeoView’s mission to pioneer technological breakthroughs, strengthen partnerships, and set new industry benchmarks in the offshore wind sector.
With the unwavering dedication of our talented team, I am confident that GeoView will continue to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of renewable energy and supporting the global transition to a sustainable future.
