WGS Global
Technical leadership, grounded in field experience.
WGS Global is a UK company led by two hydrographers with extensive offshore and nearshore experience. Our directors combine technical leadership with direct involvement in field operations, bringing together the specialists and survey systems each assignment requires.
We turn your brief into a workable survey approach: coverage, method, equipment, team and deliverables agreed around the site, programme and budget. We explain the reference systems, checks and limits so your team understands how the results can be used.
We support clients in West Africa and internationally through focused survey assignments, technical consulting and specialist field support.
A clear point of contact. You work directly with the technical lead coordinating your assignment, from preparation to handover. Responsibilities and quality checks are defined before mobilisation, with progress and technical decisions documented throughout the work.
Field experience
WGS is a network as much as a company. Our directors and freelance specialists have worked in more than 40 countries and territories, from the Canadian Arctic and Greenland to the Gulf, Taiwan and French Polynesia: offshore wind, oil and gas, subsea cables, ports and dredging, UXO and research. That field experience is what we bring to every scope.
From the team’s own time offshore.
From the team’s own time nearshore.
WGS Global is registered in the UK, with a focus on West Africa and international survey support. Equipment is selected and sourced for each assignment, through rental or purchase as appropriate. Our team is based in Senegal, where the local company is being set up, and a base is opening in Conakry. We work with vessel partners in both countries, alongside the specialists each mission needs.
Senegal · Opening
Our team lives and works in Senegal, close to our clients and partners along the coast, and mobilises from here across the region. The local company, WGS Sénégal, is being set up.
With our vessel partner in Dakar, Atlantico Services Offshore, we offer maritime support along the Senegalese coast: a survey launch and a crane workboat, mobilised for each job.
Conakry, Guinea · Opening
WGS Guinée is opening in Conakry, to work closer to our clients in Guinea and the region and to mobilise faster.
Its other purpose is to pass on what we know. We want hydrographic know-how to grow in the region: local surveyors and data processors trained on real projects, alongside our team.
Visit wgs224.comPartner vessels, selected for the site and availability
Guinea
12.2 m workboat, MCA Category 2, 10 to 12 knots, 16 m² aft deck for 2 t. A partner platform for survey work in Guinea and West Africa.
Guinea · Nearshore & rivers
Shallow-draft workboat for nearshore, estuary and river surveys in Guinea.
Senegal · Atlantico Services Offshore, Dakar
11 m catamaran launch in GRP, twin 350 hp engines, design category B, up to 12 people and 2.5 t on board. For nearshore survey, crew and equipment transfers.
Senegal · Atlantico Services Offshore, Dakar
Catamaran workboat with an open work deck and a 2 t crane aft, twin diesel engines. For carrying and deploying equipment, supply runs and marine support.
Where a client needs regular survey work in a country, we can consider setting up a local survey company with a local partner, around a long-term work programme.
The company is built with the partner, to fit the market. It recruits and trains a local team, develops its equipment step by step and relies on the WGS network for technical support. The aim is local activity and local jobs, with capacity that grows over time.
What it means for you
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A point of contact in the country and a survey team based there, close to your sites and quick to mobilise.
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The same people return to the same sites. They know the access, the conditions and the history of your data.
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Repeat surveys on the same reference, so changes can be tracked from one campaign to the next.
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Surveyors and data processors recruited and trained in the country, on real projects. The skills stay local.
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For more demanding missions, specialists and equipment from the WGS network join the local team.
A local company is only set up when three things come together.
OpeningSenegal. Our team is based here and the local company is being set up.
OpeningGuinea. An operational base is opening in Conakry.
Under studyGuinea-Bissau. To be built with a local partner, around an identified client need.
Under studyGabon. To be built with a local partner, around an identified client need.KP 6.450Get in Touch
Send us the problem, the site or the first brief. We will help define a practical way forward around the programme, constraints, local context and decision required.