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Financial Calendar

Financial calendar for GC Rieber Shipping ASA

Q3 Results

Short-term charter for Polar Queen

Shearwater GeoServices to acquire Schlumberger marine seismic acquisition business, forming market leading geophysical company

Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS ("Shearwater"), the 50/50 joint venture between GC Rieber Shipping ASA ("GC Rieber Shipping") and Rasmussengruppen  AS ("Rasmussengruppen "), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for Shearwater to acquire the marine seismic acquisition assets and operations (the "Acquisition") of WesternGeco, the geophysical services product line of Schlumberger.  

Re-certified to the new ISO 2015 standard

GC Rieber Shipping AS re-certified to the new ISO 2015 standard

4-month charter for Polar Queen

GC Rieber Shipping has entered into a time charter agreement with a European offshore client for the CSV vessel Polar Queen for a fixed period of four months with options to extend by up to one month. With this charter, all GC Rieber Shipping subsea vessels have secured contracts for the summer season 2018.

3-year charter for Polar Onyx with Deepocean

GC Rieber Shipping has entered into a time charter agreement with Deepocean BV for the SURF vessel Polar Onyx for a fixed period of three years with options to extend by up to two years.

Nexans extends the charter for Polar King

Reference is made to stock exchange notice 31 March 2016 and 15 September 2016 concerning the contract with Nexans Skagerrak AS (Nexans) for the construction support vessel Polar King. The 21 months charter commenced in January 2017, and the previously agreed firm period was set to end in September 2018.

British Antarctic Survey exercises its last option on RRS Ernest Shackleton

British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a component body of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), declares its fifth and final option for a one-year extension of the bareboat charter for "RRS Ernest Shackleton".

Shearwater

GC Rieber Shipping has 19% stake in Shearwater GeoServices which operates as a global, customer-focused and technology-driven provider of marine geophysical services.