TesserACT: Smarter Geophysical Survey Design

TesserACT is the all-in-one solution for geophysical survey design, optimizing onshore, offshore, and borehole projects. It enhances resolution, cuts costs, and minimizes HSE risks while adapting to the evolving energy landscape, from oil and gas to carbon transition initiatives.

Operational Environments

TesserACT is designed to handle survey optimization across multiple operational environments. Whether you’re working in deepwater, on land, or in complex hybrid setups, TesserACT ensures precision, efficiency, and adaptability.

Streamer Surveys

Optimize towed streamer designs for efficiency and data quality.

Seabed Operations

Seamless survey planning for seabed nodes and cables.

Hybrid Solutions

Combine streamer and seabed technologies for enhanced results.

Land Surveys

Accurate and cost-effective designs for onshore projects.

Borehole

Precision-driven designs for borehole geophysics and subsurface analysis.

Transition Zone

Specialized planning for challenging coastal and shallow-water environments.

Features and Functions

TesserACT is packed with industry-leading features that make survey design smarter and more efficient.

Z-Design

Z-Design is the result of a collaboration with Houston based Z-Terra Inc. Seamlessly integrated into TesserACT, Z-Design delivers fast, robust, interactive 3D ray tracing.

Wizard Based Geometry Creation

TesserACT’s wizard based user interface makes it easy to generate even the most complicated survey geometry. Complex roll patterns and variable density shots and receivers are a snap!

GIS

TesserACT is a true GIS system with the ability to import, display and use static and dynamic spatial data.

Hazard Avoidance

TesserACT offers a powerful set of manual and automatic hazard avoidance tools.

Compressive Sensing

Whether your goal is reduced acquisition cost, higher resolution at the same cost or reduced environmental impact, you should consider Compressive Sensing.

Industry Standards

TesserACT support all industry standard data including SPS, UKOOA P1-11/P1-90, KMS, CAD, GEO-TIFF, Shape files, PNG, JPG, etc.

Pre-Design Geophysics

TesserACT’s pre-design geophysics tools ensure that your survey design has the right aperture and spatial sampling to deliver the image you need at the minimum cost.

Adequately Constructed Time

Adequately Constructed Time (ACT) is a new metric that allows a user to estimate the post-5D interpolation imaging capability of a survey design.

Optimization

TesserACT combines a sophisticated route optimization algorithm with detailed operational modeling to deliver the lowest cost solution to any operational challenge.

In marine applications, we employ a time and space variant current model to minimize in-fill shooting.

Modelling

The TesserACT base product has limited modeling capability. (dipping layer cake model with a constant velocity gradient).

Weighted Path Optimization

A set of user defined constraints and weights allow automated survey design that achieves the desired balance between cost, environmental impact and geophysical requirements.

See November 2022 “Leading Edge” article by Dean et al.

Coverage Analysis

TesserACT supports rigorous binning combing new and legacy coverage from any form of acquisition : towed streamer, seabed nodes, seabed cables, floating nodes, borehole etc. Traditional PP and PS and Fresnel Zone binning are supported.

Detailed bin, line and 3D displays are available.

Emissions and Fuel Consumption Estimation

TesserACT can now estimate fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for marine geophysical surveys based on the EnerGeoAlliance “Guidance for Estimating and Reporting Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions”. Estimates are based on information such as the drag associated with towed equipment and variations in ocean and tidal current. These tools allow a user to compare the emissions and fuel consumption for multiple candidate survey designs.

Applications

TesserACT isn’t just for traditional oil and gas exploration—it’s shaping the future of geophysical surveys across industries.

Oil & Gas Exploration

High-precision seismic surveys (2D, 3D, 4D, CSEM).
Optimization for drilling and resource development.

Carbon Transition & Renewable Energy

High-resolution surveys for wind turbine and cable installation.
Carbon sequestration site assessments.
Geothermal exploration for clean energy projects.

TESTIMONIALS

Client Feedback

“Tesseract has proved itself very versatile for our use, especially in the planning/design stage when we are looking at a multitude of options. You might have noticed that I have it open pretty much all the time !”

“Last week’s training was most enjoyable and I learned heaps. TesserACT is a well-thought-out piece of software and is very satisfying to use.”

"Really user friendly and easy to use. I was also amazed by your availability and your reactivity. TesserACT is the best alternative for us as of today, both on technical and economical aspects."

"Excellent work. It was a pleasure, too short, to work with you and the ACTeQ team."

"TesserACT is a great product and you guys have done well supporting the industry with new developments."

"Having used TesserACT since 2017 it has been a pleasure to see this software grow to where it is now and be a part of their journey. Credit to Damian Hite and Dave Ridyard and the team for what has been achieved. It provided us with the ability to design complex surveys, both OBN and streamer, with accuracy, providing our clients with the confidence to make decisions. Highly recommended."