By Rick Adams, Senior District Engineer, Energen Resources Corp., and Bill Wooden, Applied Seismic Research Corp. (ASR) In August 2007, Energen Resources began to explore use of a new technology called “Seismic Stimulation” that improves oil production by providing energy to allow coalescence of the immobile oil droplets into mobilized oil. At the […]
Seismic Shift
Geophysical companies work to expand opportunities in a challenging economy. By Paul Wiseman Every stratum of the seismic industry is struggling as the explosion of oil and gas production creates low price shock waves for the industry across the globe. The small privately-owned company that interprets and stores data, the publicly-owned geophysical firm and […]
Seismic Shifts in the Seismic World
Whether you call it “seismic” or “geophysical,” this industry-within-an-industry keeps broadening its frontiers. On a hot day in June 1921 the first successful test of the reflection seismograph was completed north of Oklahoma City. “Here we are in 2013, less than a hundred years later, and a lot of exciting things are happening,” said Kevin […]