Land Seismic Acquisition Technology
ION is a leading provider of imaging systems, software and survey design services for land seismic acquisition. For more than 35 years, ION has been viewed as the innovation leader in land seismic imaging. The company has developed, acquired and integrated cutting-edge land acquisition technologies that have been used to cost-effectively acquire the highest quality seismic data in the most challenging onshore environments. Our comprehensive toolkit enables seismic acquisition contractors and oil & gas companies to design and implement successful 2D, 3D, 4D and full-wave land seismic imaging surveys anywhere in the world.
ION's land acquisition technologies are engineered to maximize acquisition productivity, deliver enhanced subsurface imaging and significantly reduce HSE exposure. These three criteria are ingrained within our product development philosophy, reflected across our product lines and realized on a daily basis by our seismic contractor and oil & gas company customers.
Our state of the art products and services include:
In some of the most challenging acquisition environments worldwide, from the Arctic regions of Russia to the deserts of the Middle East, ION land imaging technology has proven itself time and again in delivering productivity and HSE benefits, including:
- Greater field operational efficiencies
- More shots recorded per day
- Reduced total seismic cycle time
- Reduced health and safety risk
- Reduced environmental impact
While operational efficiency is important, there is another factor that is equally critical in today's E&P environment - image quality. Recent advances in full-wave acquisition allow oil & gas companies to take advantage of enhanced subsurface images to better target hydrocarbon locations, understand producing reservoirs and maximize recovery rates through the life of a field.
ION is the leader in developing technologies that will lead the industry into this next era of improved subsurface imaging, the era of Digital, Full-wave seismic. ION's geophysical solutions enable our customers to realize improved image quality through full-wave technology applications by:
- Faithfully recording the maximum bandwidth of reflected seismic energy
- Deploying receivers more densely on the surface and with full azimuth and offset distributions
- Acquiring the full (multicomponent) wavefield using 3C sensors with high vector fidelity
- Faithfully measuring anisotropy with both single-point receivers and sources
