Our recent project with Neptune Energy and Z-Terra was presented at the 2020 SEG Annual Meeting by Malcolm Lansley in October. SEG kindly gave us permission to publish a more detailed article in the EAGE First Break journal in November.

This article describes a rapid, remote collaboration to design a complex OBN survey ..... 6 months from start of design to completion of acquisition !

The all-virtual SEG (Oct 11-16, 2020) was a huge success for ACTeQ, with several hundred new and old friends coming to visit us.

During Summer 2020, ACTeQ has sponsored survey design and data acquisition workshops organized by the EAGE and the GSH. Damian Hite presented (virtually) our infill optimization technology at the Marine Acquisition Workshop in Oslo.

AT SEG 2020, Malcolm Lansley will be (virtually) presenting "Survey design and illumination study for complex geology in the Gulf of Suez" .... a joint publication with our colleagues at Neptune Energy and Z-Terra

4th April 2020

Dear Clients and Friends,

Firstly, I want to say that we hope that you and your colleagues and family are weathering the perfect storm of the Corona virus and the oil price slump.  During a downturn, it is more important than ever to optimize geophysical operations to deliver projects faster, at the lowest cost, with reduced risk.  That’s what TesserACT does!

At ACTeQ, very little has changed.  Although we opened an office a few months ago, we have used remote collaboration as standard working practice for most of the life of the company.  Similarly, from day 1, we have practiced strong fiscal discipline, and as a consequence, our financial position is strong, and we will continue to grow steadily and support our customers throughout this year and beyond.

In the last few months we have grown our consulting practice and technical support team : survey design, operations optimization and, through our partnership with  Z-Terra, we are now offering PP and PS wave equation illumination studies.

TesserACT has also evolved tremendously, and recent additions to our functionality include : -

• 3D and 2D survey design
• Current modelling and infill analysis (marine streamer)
• Shooting on turns (marine streamer/seabed)
• ACTeX : efficient geometry handling for large land/seabed surveys … up to 100 x faster
• Project management/daily updates : planned vs actual

If you would like an update or training on these or other functionality, please give us a call.

Best Regards,

Damian A. Hite

CEO

This video investigates the effectiveness of several techniques to reduce infill on a 3D seismic program. The example used is from a project where 2D and 3D programs must be acquired in a very short weather window. Streamer fanning proves to be a critical technology.

Thanks to SeisIntel for providing ocean current data.

We are pleased to announce that Joe Greer has accepted the position of Customer Experience Director. Joe brings us a wealth of marine 4D and ocean bottom cable experience as well as deep knowledge of onshore and borehole seismic.

Joe's role will include customer support and training for our growing client base, as well as identifying and specifying new functionality requirements.

Survey Design Express #6 covers a hot topics in survey design. In this video we look at some of the issues raised at the SEG 2019 workshop on marine data acquisition.

The requirements of FWI are driving many operators to acquire long offset OBN surveys to complement existing high resolution streamer surveys. In this video, we pose the question "can we acquire both surveys efficiently and simultaneously ?" ... and "could marine vibrators have a role to play in such acquisition ?".