As of 5 September 2008:

1. The company name is TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA.
2. The company is a public limited company registered in the Norwegian Securities Register.
3. The principal business area of the company is in the provision, procurement and sale of seismic and geophysical data hereunder included associated products and services and technology to the oil and gas industry and to the production industry.
4. The company’s business office shall be in the municipality of Asker. The shareholders’ meetings can be held in the municipality of Oslo.
5. The company’s sharecapital is NOK 26,629,950 fully paid up and issued in 106,519,800 shares of NOK 0,25 each to named shareholders.
6. The company’s board of directors shall consist of from six to ten directors. The period of service is one year. The nomination of directors to the board, and the remuneration payable to the directors shall be prepared by a nomination committee consisting of one chairman and two members elected by and amongst the shareholders and who shall serve for a period of two years.
7. The ordinary shareholders’ meeting shall decide the following:
   Approval of  the annual profit and loss account and the annual report, hereunder distribution of dividends. Other matters that according to the laws or these articles of association shall be dealt with by the shareholders.
8. In addition the Public Limited Companies Act as amended from time to time shall apply.