• Frac Driven Interactions

Our data provides early notice of well and reservoir interactions to ensure the integrity of field development while optimizing well spacing and treatment order to maximize hydrocarbon production.

• Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Pipeline

Our goal is assisting our clients in sustaining the profitability, safety, and environmental soundness of the life span of their CO2 projects by monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of CCUS.

• Sinkhole Detection

Early detection of sinkholes allows time for intervention. KarstAlert is a 24/7 real time passive monitoring system that has been proven to mitigate risk, prevent costly damages, and protect the environment.

• Geothermal Energy

Our data quantifies the fracture connectivity gained by the hydraulic stimulation of your heat exchange chamber as well as providing data on fluid movement and induced seismicity.

• Induced Seismicity

Monitoring over the life of the asset helps to demonstrate proactive stewardship of field operations for hydraulic fracturing, brine injection, carbon capture and geothermal activities.

• Surface Monitoring

Wireless IoT surface monitoring technology with ML/AI analytics for monitoring environmental conditions, equipment, aquifers, soil, and the atmosphere. 

• Frac Driven Interactions or Frac Hits

Fracture Driven Interactions (sometimes called frac hits) are common in unconventional reservoir development accomplished with closely spaced and often stacked horizontal wells. Production of earlier (parent) wells will create a zone of reduced pore pressure or “pressure sink” in the zone of depletion with a concurrent change in the geomechanical properties of the reservoir rock. Subsequent completions on nearby secondary (child) wells have been observed to preferentially “grow” towards these pressure sinks (see diagram). Such a deflection of the stimulation can compromise the stimulated volume of the secondary well(s) (their SRV) and affect the production of the primary well.

• Carbon Capture and Storage

CO₂ sequestration projects are growing in number as the practicality of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to offset greenhouse gas emissions becomes a reality.  A key element of any CCUS project is the monitoring, measuring, and verification (MMV) of the CO₂ sequestration process for the purpose of ensuring environmental compliance and qualifying tax credits. The CCUS process presents monitoring challenges during transportation and injection, both of which are effectively addressed by technologies and services offered by MSI’s CO₂SeQure^® carbon management division.

• Sinkhole Detection

Damage to homes, businesses, factories, and infrastructure from sinkholes results in millions of dollars in repair and lost revenue every year. Sinkholes can appear suddenly at the surface (“daylighting”). When a karst/sinkhole “daylights, the ground literally drops out from under you.

Karsting development that leads to sinkholes can take years to grow toward the surface. As sinkholes form, material spalls from the sides of the growing aven resulting in specific noise emissions that KarstAlert detects and analyzes.  KarstAlert is a Real Time alarm system that monitors for not only the existence of sinkholes but the rate at which they grow as well.

Implementing KarstAlert allows for early intervention and mitigation to prevent costly damages.

• Induced Seismicity

Induced seismicity is stress in the Earth’s crust that led to tremors and earthquakes, caused by human actions.  This would be considered different than triggered seismicity, which refers to tremors caused naturally.

• Enhanced Geothermal Systems – EGS

Hot Dry Rocks (HDR) are areas where geothermal can work better if naturally occurring fractures can be enlarged, extended, and enhanced allowing more fluid to connect with the HDR resulting in a much greater power output than is achieved by tradition geothermal systems.  EGS works by injecting fluid and proppant into the HDR to greatly increase the long-term productive fracture network.  Integral to this process is the ability to monitor this stimulation to quantify the newly propped fracture network and use this information to improve the stimulation of future wells. 

Today priorities have changed. While frac monitoring is still a business driver for us, the opportunity to revisit our original vision has arrived. Importantly, the experience of the past 20 years will allow us to perform projects in these other areas efficiently and effectively.

MicroSeismic, Inc. was named an Energy Industry Disruptor on the inaugural CNBC Disruptor 50 List in 2013 and ten years later we are still celebrating as we approach our 20th anniversary and expand our business model.

Throughout the past 20 years, MSI has never taken a step back from its core values. We conduct our operations in the field and in the office in a safe, sustainable, and environmentally conscious manner. We adhere to the highest level of integrity when dealing with clients, employees, and suppliers. We are proud to note that we have worked more than 40 months and more than 2.5 million employee hours without a reportable lost time incident.

While developing and applying the latest innovations in geophysics, MSI has survived two decades of booms and busts with a core group of dedicated employees who have been “tested by fire”.