Seismos announces K-View CO2 EOR surveillance platform

Seismos Inc. has introduced K-View™ CO2, a new flood surveillance platform for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations.

K-View™ CO2 is designed to increase 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 that is connected to surface-installed low-impact emitters and sensors. These generate images of CO2 movement over time.

"With a rapid return on investment through immediately actionable information, K-View™ CO2 provides visualisation of flood fronts that help operators maximise pattern effectiveness and produce more oil," said Seismos Founder and CEO, Panos Adamopoulos.

According to Seismos, up to half of CO2 is underutilised in the reservoir due to lack of understanding of the flood front movement, which leads to the huge opportunity cost of unrecovered oil. Seismos addresses this problem by combining proprietary processing and visualisation technology with seismic science to offer a user-friendly and economical flood surveillance solution.

Seismos reported a positive response to K-View™ CO2 at the December CO2 Conference in Midland, Texas. The conference brought together industry experts from more than 130 companies focused on topics of carbon capture & storage (CCS) and CO2 flood surveillance.

"The reception was outstanding," Adamopoulos continued, "operators are clearly enthusiastic about the prospect of a continuous, cost effective solution for CO2 flood surveillance that eliminates the need for slow and expensive time lapse surveys."

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.

Headquartered in Austin with offices in Houston, Seismos drives sustainable production uplift through flexible, cloud-based software solutions that solve the timeliness problems associated with conventional methods of subsurface imaging at a fraction of their cost. The company has received several awards and industry recognition for its proprietary technology that empowers real-time data driven actions.

Edited from press release by Angharad Lock

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