Vertishear

As the Oil & Gas Industry continues to explore for higher-risk unconventional sources of hydrocarbons, multicomponent seismic analysis provides valuable insights for drilling and production decisions. Lithology identification, fracture orientations, stress field characterizations, and fluid discrimination are all vital bits of information that become available when combining shear wave data with conventional P-wave data. Existing methods for acquiring multicomponent seismic data are very expensive and time consuming.

VertiShear Technology unlocks multicomponent seismic benefits from legacy 1C library data, and expands 3C data to become 9C data from a single vertical force source acquisition, thus allowing geophysicists to dramatically improve their production decisions without incurring the traditional multicomponent acquisition’s high costs.