Seismos announces new oil surveillance platform

Seismos Inc., a provider of subsurface fluid-flow imaging technology for the Oil and Gas industry, announced K-View CO2, a new flood surveillance platform for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations.

K-View CO2 focuses on increasing CO2 EOR production by providing continuous, real-time information about the subsurface movement of CO2 and areas of unswept oil. The solution is a cloud-based geophysical data processing platform connected to surface-installed low-impact emitters and sensors that generates images of CO2 movement over time.

“With a rapid return on investment through immediately actionable information, K-View™ CO2 provides visualization of flood fronts that help operators maximize pattern effectiveness and produce more oil,” said Seismos founder and CEO, Panos Adamopoulos.

Without Seismos’ platform, oil producers have no practical or cost effective method of tracking underground CO2 flow during EOR operations. Up to half of CO2 is underutilized in the reservoir due to lack of understanding of the flood front movement, which leads to the huge opportunity cost of unrecovered oil.

Seismos has installed K-View CO2 in fields in Texas and New Mexico and is expanding rapidly. In the current tight oil price environment, operators need innovations that offer quick returns through operational expense reduction and increased production during EOR operations.