Fugro SAE was established in 2004 as a subsidiary of Fugro Corporate. Fugro's specializes in the acquisition and synthesis of data. Their activities fall under the broad headings of geotechnical, survey and geosciences divisions. Fugro utilizes sophisticated technology and expertise to survey land, costal lines, and offshore as well as deep-water environments. Supplementary to surveying, data collection and analysis, Fugro also provides a variety of other services that facilitate infrastructural development and maintenance to ensure smooth transition amongst project phases of exploration, extraction, development and production. In this vein Fugro offers a wide variety of services to the oil and gas sector, the construction sector as well as the mining industry.