About Us

Our values, history, team, partnerships and sustainability
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Vision, Mission, Values

TenzorGEO’s vision is to make our integrated solution the go-to standard for imaging and monitoring operations across subsurface-related industries. We strive to provide, in one package, all the tools necessary for operators to obtain extensive knowledge of their subsurface problem.

Our mission is to equip the industry with the most innovative and cost-effective imaging and monitoring approach that will enable efficient management of subsurface assets across the globe. TenzorGEO’s ambition is to provide a fully integrated solution that will reduce the complexity and economic hardship associated with implementing multiple imaging and monitoring methods.

Innovation is at the heart of what we do. We continuously evolve and improve our performance to best serve our customers. We are passionate about delivering technologies that enable industries to meet their environmental and economic goals alike, and work hard on minimising our own negative impact on the environment. TenzorGEO strives to meet our customers’ needs by providing an end-to-end service, from equipment deployment to data recovery and interpretation.

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History

Headquartered in Aberdeen, UK, TenzorGEO was founded with the aim of maximising economic recovery of hydrocarbons in the North Sea by utilising a unique interpretation software and methodology not previously applied in the offshore domain. The company leverages on decades of experience acquired up by our passive seismic specialists and a high success rate across numerous subsurface applications.

Since its formation, TenzorGEO has continued to push boundaries, expanding into new industries. In 2020, TenzorGEO established itself in the Carbon Capture and Storage industry by upgrading its proven interpretation software to meet the requirements of CO2 injection monitoring.

The History of Low Frequency Seismic Technology

The Low Frequency Seismic (LFS) technology used by TenzorGEO followed a unique development path, mirrored by similar microseismic research done in countries like Switzerland, USA and India.  Some aspects of the LFS technology originally emerged as a response to the needs of industries outside of oil and gas sector, such as earthquakes prediction and modelling and military-based geophysics.  Whilst there were indicators that the LFS technology could be useful in the petroleum industry, its commercial breakthrough was lumbered with the lack of industry validation and considerable requirements for a substantial outlay of resources such as large data sets for experimentation, high-level academics to create algorithms and software, and a high-power supercomputer.  

The advance and commercialisation of any technology requires massive investments and support of industry supermajors who focused mainly on tactical improvements. Unwilling to change their tried and tested active seismic processes, the oil and gas industry regarded using LFS technology as an unnecessary risk, and as a result, the method was shelved. Active seismic has  become the dominant method for exploration and appraisal and TenzorGEO found it difficult to break into the market.  Mainstream beliefs that shorter waves (higher frequencies) were more informative turned most of key industry players away from LFS.

However, as times moved on, so did the challenges faced by the oil and gas industry. For example, these days it is increasingly rare to discover conventionally structured reservoirs. Remaining assets are located in complex geological hydrocarbons traps, where the application of conventional seismic is less effective and significantly more expensive. Complex geology requires full wave inversion and complex mathematics, two challenges where LFS truly delivers.

For some time, LFS technology seemed to have been lost. It was revived by an academic who developed it into the modern LFS methodology that TenzorGEO has today. Our LFS method delivers results in offshore environments, using the bespoke subsea robotic technologies designed and built in Germany.

TenzorGEO is a proud owner of a unique and powerful software that underpins the high quality and fast turnaround of data analysis. We take particular pride in our team who put together, execute and interpret the LFS surveys for a variety of clients across the globe.

 

Watch the “Webinar part 1: An introduction to passive low frequency, taking a look at its history and the potential it holds for the oil and gas industry in current times of oil crash“

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Team

TenzorGEO is a diverse team with a collective set of skills and experience spanning across science, engineering, operations, finance and entrepreneurship backgrounds. We provide thought leadership in the area of passive seismicity and are the first of our kind to develop a solution for its offshore application. Since emerging in 2018, TenzorGEO was identified as holding the key to some of the energy industry’s greatest modern-day challenges by authoritative bodies and professional networks such as the OGTC, Oil & Gas Vision and Subsea UK.

Leadership

IVAN STAROSTIN, MSC

Director

EVGENY SMIRNOV

COO

DR ROY BITRUS, PHD

DIRECTOR OF SALES

Advisory board

ARNE SCHWENK

OBS TECHNICAL ADVISOR

PROFESSOR ANDREW HURST, PHD

GEOSCIENCE ADVISOR

DENIS PINTO

BUSINESS ADVISOR

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Partnerships

TenzorGEO has established long-lasting, valuable relationships with various organisations and companies, recognised as industry leaders in their respective fields. We will continue to develop, leverage and build upon these relationships, forging them into long-lasting symbiotic and synergistic partnerships to ensure we deliver on our vision.

K.U.M.
A renowned provider of subsea data acquisition equipment, frequently working in partnership with top international academic centres, KUM supplies TenzorGEO with its market leading Subsea systems, endorsed by the European Union and the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. KUM has extensive experience in marine engineering with successful projects completed in the UK, India, China and at over 60 other locations. TenzorGEO is leveraging on KUM’s expertise to research and develop subsea equipment fit for the purpose of recording seismic data that meets the requirements of their unique interpretation software.

Molyneux Advisors
A leading provider of subsurface advice to the upstream energy industry. Molyneux Advisors supports TenzorGEO by providing marketing and technical services in Australia and S.E. Asia. Molyneux Advisors generates value for their clients throughout the asset lifecycle from exploration, through development, production, re-use and abandonment using innovative technology (such as TenzorGEO), practical industry experience, technical knowledge and commercial networks.

TrueOcean
71% of our planet’s surface is covered by oceans. Oceans play a vital role in fighting the climate change and provide resources and energy for the growing global population. The United Nations Ocean Decade will set new standards by 2030 in decarbonisation and sustainable utilisation of resources and energy. To achieve maximum return and minimum impact, decision making associated with the ocean applications must rely on best subsurface information.
TrueOcean is a software technology start-up that enables the processing of large and heterogenous maritime sensor data. To cope with growing “maritime Big Data”, they created a collaborative platform which hosts the emerging Ocean Intelligence. Their vision is to create digital twins of specific subsurface sites to make the unknown below surface accessible.

TrueOcean processes sensor data in different file formats and provides ocean applications with access to scalable compute infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. SaaS caters for advanced data management, processing and visualisation by applying innovative algorithms and AI applications for analysis. Digital tools for lean data handling and automised data analysis raise accuracy and quality of the retrieved information within a streamlined process.

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Sustainability

It is more prevalent than ever that today’s business is conducted in a sustainable manner that supports the global net-zero goals and, most importantly, safeguards the planet for future generations.

From day one, TenzorGEO’s vision was to advance the sustainability of the UK energy industry in both hydrocarbon exploration and production sectors. By integrating our technology, operators spend fewer resources on discovering hydrocarbons in commercial quantities, do not need to drill as many or any exploration wells, save costs and time on seismic surveys and have a substantially lower bill on energy consumption. The processes offered by TenzorGEO help the operators to reduce their use of fossil fuels, thus decreasing their emissions and carbon footprint.

We also demonstrate our commitment to sustainability by supporting the drive to enhance hydrocarbon recovery operations in the UKCS. Research shows that oil and gas will remain a vital part of the UK’s energy mix as the country moves towards net zero. Therefore, it is essential to maximise economic returns and meet national energy demand by extracting maximum value from the declining North Sea production, minimising greenhouse gas emissions and reducing reliance on hydrocarbon imports.

TenzorGEO’s technologies can be deployed on the path to reaching 2050 targets. Our hydrocarbon delineation and monitoring services can identify small pools and track injected fluid, providing extensive knowledge of the subsurface to the operators, enabling them to maximise recovery from the UK fields.

More recently, TenzorGEO has pushed the boundaries of innovation by successfully modifying the tested interpretation method to provide a monitoring solution for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) operations. CCS has been identified as an essential operation in supporting the UK’s net zero transition, protecting the climate and environment upon which we and future generations depend. CCS will support the levelling up of the UK economy, particularly in creating a green economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to achieve net zero targets, CCS systems will need to capture, transport and store up to 176 MtCO2 per year by 2050. This level of CO2 storage will require comprehensive monitoring, to prevent any leakages from the reservoir and to ensure the storage integrity of the site. CCS operations are by nature long-term processes, spanning over many years. The process requires monitoring both at the time of injection and for years after. Current monitoring technologies deployed at these sites are unsustainable due to the long-term nature of these operations and mounting economic costs of repeated seismic surveys. TenzorGEO provides a sustainable, permanent and passive monitoring service that offers continuous recording and near real-time alerts. We strongly believe our solution will unlock the barriers currently preventing large scale growth of CCS across the globe.

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