A.P. van den Berg (APB) in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, has recently concluded through its Chinese distributor BST Instruments China Limited (BST), a substantial contract with China Oilfield Services Limited. COSL is a whole subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a major Oil and Gas company in China. The contract entails the development and supply of the WISON-APB-3000, a highly innovative offshore soil investigation system. The system is based on wireline technology to be used on geotechnical drill ships in the growing market of ultra-deep water, in this case water depths up to 3,000 m. Read more.