New: Micro-Seismic Fracture Monitoring Technology

The process starts by acquiring microseismic event data in the borehole using the best available sensing equipment on the planet. Our acquisition company, Apex-HiPoint, LLC, has been successfully operating with people known in the industry for doing high quality work. They are leaders in advancing the envelope for downhole multicomponent recording technology. 

Competing microseismic technology records 8 to 12 downhole receiver levels.  With our technology, we aquire and process data received from at least 40 levels! We get much more aperture and thus, a much better chance at "seeing" your microseismic events. Click here to view a movie showing just a few pitfalls with limited aperture techniques.

The competition hand picks just about everything. We make very few manual adjustments and let the data speak for itself. We make use of state of the art processing technology and QC every step of the way. Our processing technology encompasses our 100+ combined years of being in the seismic processing and software business. We make use of geophysical algorithms such as depth migration, filtering, deconvolution and hundreds of other processes that can be accessed with the click of a mouse.

Included in our final product is an internally developed software package that acts as a viewer for the microseismic events. The client is provided with the "Fractor" viewer program along with the processed project data. Click here to see a brief movie of the viewer. 

Energy is mapped from the fracture point to the receiver location using wave form depth migration. The migration algorithm uses a velocity model that can vary in 3D and includes both vertical and azimuthal anisotropy. Fracture locations are then computed and displayed.