Vidar Hovland joined marine seismic contractor Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) in 2005 just as the company shut down its two ocean-bottom cable seismic crews because the business was not regarded as viable. Fast-forward to 2016, and we find him busy launching inApril, the oddly named Norwegian start-up seabed seismic equipment company.
He spent the intervening years in the upper echelons of PGS management having arrived from Fugro Geoteam, where he had been managing director of its seismic business.
