Ethiopian ambassador visits ARKeX

His Excellency Ambassador Berhanu Kebede of Ethiopia visited ARKeX on Cambridge Business Park off Milton Road on Friday.
“We have recently been doing a lot of work in Ethiopia carrying out airborne surveys for oil and gas exploration companies,” said Mark Champion of ARKeX.
“Hydrocarbon exploration is extremely important to the economies of East Africa and our technology allows the exploration timeline to be sped up by years.”
During his visit the ambassador was shown the company’s next generation gravity gradiometer, known as the EGG, and which has been designed and built in Cambridge.
Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry surveys measure minute variations in the earth’s gravitational field to help image subsurface structures.
This information can help to build a picture of anomalies below the surface which can then be used to target hydrocarbon bearing structures.
Data is gathered via light aircraft and ships so that large areas can be covered.