Q. What is the official name of your company?
A. Global Geophysical Services, Inc.
Q. Where is your company located?
A. Global Geophysical is headquartered in Houston, TX with regional offices around the world including Anchorage, AK.
Q. What year was the company founded?
A. Global was founded in 2005.
Q. What is your company’s primary business activity?
A. Global delivers seismic data, products and services that enable high-resolution insight into subsurface structure, faults, fractures, rock properties, and reservoir dynamics. Our seismic solutions include seismic and Ambient Seismic data acquisition, processing, reservoir geophysics and integrated interpretation and consulting services, in addition to multi client data library products. Our objective is to help oil and gas companies identify and characterize prospectivity and productivity, reduce risk, optimize well plans and well completions, and monitor changes in hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Q. Are there important projects the company is currently a part of or has done recently?
A. In the last few years Global has completed multiple important projects on the North Slope. During the 2014 acquisition season, the Company completed a 3D acquisition program of approximately 200 square miles. The project was one of the largest ever conducted during a single season on the North Slope with regards to the number of combined source and receiver points. In the fourth quarter of 2014, Global completed a smaller 2D program near Glenallen, Alaska. Upon completion of that program, the Company returned to the Slope to acquire 150 square miles of 3D seismic data during the 2015 winter acquisition season. Also in 2015, Global completed Ambient Seismic test lines with very positive results, which demonstrated the Company’s advanced Ambient Seismic capabilities in extreme arctic environments. Global hopes to continue building on its arctic experience this coming acquisition season.
Q. Describe the equipment your company uses?
A. Global utilizes its proprietary AutoSeis® high-definition autonomous nodal recording system for seismic data acquisition. As the only nodal recording system on the market that records true 32-bit integer format, the AutoSeis® HDR has delivered breakthrough results in terms of project duration and data quality, all with less environmental impact. Weighing in at just 0.7 lbs., it is the smallest and lightest node in the industry, but its resin case offers superior durability. The system has proven capable of operating reliably even in extreme arctic conditions. Global is also the only seismic service provider in Alaska using ION AHV IV 380 vibrators with 80,000 lbs. of peak force and Sercel VE-464 vibrator electronics.
Q. Is the company changing any of its services or products?
A. Global is continually exploring unique ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency while developing original techniques for utilizing seismic data from a non-traditional perspective. Some of the company’s more noteworthy technological advancements include random 3D design, Ambient Seismic and SEISMIC on DEMAND.
Using its random-3D design method Global is moving away from the old model of 3D design that starts with, and aims to preserve, a symmetrical grid of source and receiver points. This innovation enables those points to be moved to accommodate surface and cultural obstacles by starting with accessible source positions on preexisting roads and trails, and designing receiver positions around them to maximize coverage, increase efficiency and reduce costs.
The sensitivity and flexibility of the AutoSeis® HDR makes it capable of recording Ambient Seismic data while acquiring 3D seismic data or monitoring frac jobs. Coupled with Global’s patented and proprietary processing techniques, Ambient Seismic reveals key reservoir features such as natural faults and fractures.
One of Global’s most recently developed products is SEISMIC on DEMAND. This integrated offering expands the applications of seismic data from exploration to operations. By naturally leveraging our innovative 3D seismic, Ambient Seismic monitoring and processing technologies, we are able to deliver full and actionable information to engineers at a scale and pace that is practical for the operational world of drilling, completions and production.
Q. What is your company’s main strength or its edge over the competition?
A. Our main strength or ‘edge’ is the unique value that comes from the cumulative impact of the combined application of our technologies, workflows and experience. Using the AutoSeis® HDR, Global has demonstrated market-leading productivity, while affordably acquiring high-resolution, wide-azimuth seismic data. To access the full potential of this high quality data, Global employs advanced proprietary processing technologies that provide customers with crisp, more accurately imaged data for interpretation and also for truer amplitude fidelity in final offset-azimuth gathers. Well-prepared seismic data allow for the generation and analysis of numerous and often complex seismic attributes which, when integrated with geological, petrophysical, completion and production information, reveal important insights into prospectivity and productivity, identify exploration risks, and even assist with completion optimization.
Q. Does your company have an anniversary or other landmark event coming up?
A. This past May, Global celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first seismic shot. Global Crew 444 took its ‘first shot’ Friday, May 13, 2005, in Godley, TX.
Q. What is your company’s safety record? What steps does the company take to ensure a safe work environment?
A. Global’s 2014 Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) and frequency rate for the combined Days Away From Work and Restricted/Transfer (DART) cases were both all time company lows (the lower, the better). Global continuously looks for ways to improve performance and safety. Each year, we produce HSEQ goals and objectives to help guide the Company and provide focus on the programs in place to achieve our objectives. In addition to companywide goals and objectives, regional leaders also produce their own HSEQ goals and objectives for their areas of responsibility, these are disseminated throughout their respective areas and product lines.
Q. What is the address of your company’s Web site?
A. www.globalgeophysical.com
