International provider of asset management services, Geoforce has announced the additional expansion of its global footprint for GPS tracking of field equipment using the Globalstar Simplex network. Service for sub-Saharan Africa will be commercially available on 1 January based on the opening of Globalstar's new gateway in Botswana. 

Since Geoforce's inception in 2007, Globalstar has provided underlying satellite service for Geoforce's Track and Trace services for global traceability of field equipment. With the addition of Globalstar's new infrastructure in southwestern Africa, its satellite coverage will extend to nearly 100 percent of all oil and gas producing regions. Satellite service is required to provide coverage in regions with limited cellular coverage. These range from the North Slope of Alaska, to many remote shale basins in North America, and most of the major offshore producing regions in the world, including the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, offshore Brazil, West Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. 

Already operating in six continents, Geoforce will now be able to offer complete worldwide support for its satellite based GPS tracking devices, and Track and Trace software applications. These products include the GT1, the world's only IECEx/ATEX certified Zone 0 GPS tracking device, and the new GT0, the world's smallest commercial satellite tracking device.