GeoTomo and Shell Announce High Resolution Joint Inversion of Gravity and Seismic Data Development Project

GeoTomo LLC and Royal Dutch Shell plc are pleased to announce a development project for joint inversion of gravity and seismic data. It will be the first commercially available tool of its kind, and aims at creating high resolution near-surface velocity models. It will contain both 2D and 3D applications, and complement the existing near-surface velocity modeling tools in GeoTomo’s TomoPlus package, for which Shell and GeoTomo announced development co-operation in October 2009.

Dirk Smit, Vice-President Exploration Technologies at Shell, said: “We believe recent new insights make joint inversion of both high resolution gravity and seismic a powerful tool to significantly enhance the resolution of near surface velocity models. We look forward to applying this technology in our onshore ventures”.

TomoPlus is GeoTomo’s near-surface solution software package. It is designed to obtain an accurate near-surface velocity model with irregular geometry and rough topography, and derive accurate long and short wavelength statics solutions to help seismic data processing.

For more information about TomoPlus, please go to http://www.geotomo.com/tomoplus.html.

About GeoTomo

GeoTomo LLC (www.geotomo.com) is specialized in developing land seismic data processing technologies and offers software solutions for the oil and gas industry worldwide.  GeoTomo’s software solutions include modeling and survey design (VECON), near-surface imaging and statics analyses (TomoPlus), land seismic data processing workflows (ThrustLine and Thrust3D), 3D wave-equation imaging (WaveMAP), 3D surface and downhole seismic visualization (VISUS), etc.  The company was initially founded in Louisville, Colorado in 1998, and then relocated to Houston in 2000.  Currently GeoTomo is supporting software users in forty-two countries.