CGGVeritas
Tour Maine Montparnasse
33 avenue de Maine BP 191
75755 Paris Cedex 15
France
November 25, 2009
Via EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington D.C. 20549
Re: Request for Withdrawal of Form S-4 filed on September 22, 2009 (File No. 333-162042)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Please accept this withdrawal request on behalf of the registrants named below (the “Registrants”). The relevant details concerning this request are as follows:
| • | | Accession number of the filing that is the subject of this request: 0000950123-09-044634 |
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| • | | Name and CIK of the Registrants: |
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| Name of Registrant | | CIK |
| Alitheia Resources Inc. | | 0001387047 |
| CGG Americas Inc. | | 0001332598 |
| CGGVeritas Land (U.S.) Inc. | | 0001387044 |
| CGGVeritas Services (U.S.) Inc. | | 0001387046 |
| CGGVeritas Services Holding (U.S.) Inc. | | 0000028866 |
| Sercel, Inc. | | 0001332640 |
| Veritas DGC Asia Pacific Ltd. | | 0001387055 |
| Veritas Geophysical (Mexico) LLC | | 0001387045 |
| Veritas Investments Inc. | | 0001387056 |
| Viking Maritime Inc. | | 0001387058 |
The Registrants are requesting the withdrawal of the Registration Statement because they filed it on Form S-4 but have concluded that Form F-4 is the more appropriate form to use for the Registration Statement. An amended Registration Statement on Form F-4 for the above captioned filing has been made under a separate accession number (0000950123-09-065215). The Registrants are all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Compagnie Générale de Géophysique – Veritas, a foreign private issuer.
If the Staff has any questions or comments, please call our legal counsel, Luis Roth, Linklaters LLP, at + 33 1 56 43 58 42.
Very truly yours,
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/s/ Stéphane-Paul Frydman Stéphane-Paul Frydman | | |
For and on behalf of the Registrants
