Peter first visited Egypt in 1980 on crew 1618 in the Nile Delta, all around Mansura Shirbin, Gamasa and Kafr el Sheikh. He then transferred to the Sinai for 2 years, working in the desert on the field crew.

Since that time and after CGS was formed, Peter has worked many times with processing contractors in Cairo, and also designed several 3D surveys and taken them through to processed workstation products. 

Processing QC is often done using remote QC via FTP sites and power point presentations or SEGY file transfer. The procedure is to use a Start up meeting where the client, the QC rep go to Cairo to meet the processing crew. There a  schedule of processing tests is agreed and the FTP site set up. As the crew progresses through the suggested processing sequence, they can place power point files and/or SEGY files onto the site for inspection and comment (and decisions).  Every so many weeks Peter will visit Cairo (particularly to QC final statics models, or for Velocity QC)  which is only 5 hours away, until the final work is completed.

Clients only pay for the hours spent at the workstation in UK  (and the air fares etc.) This method has worked very well 5-6 times now and is cheaper than putting a processing QC into Cairo on a permanent basis.