MicroSeismic HISTORY
2011
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists announces Peter Duncan as an honorary member in September 2011
- World Oil - Innovative Thinker Award Nominee - Dr. Peter M. Duncan
- Awarded #7 in the FastTech 50 Award presented by Houston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing companies in Houston.
- Completed a $100M majority recapitalization with TA Associates and Madrone Capital Partners
2010
Sanish Field - North Dakota
- MSI Reported 700% Revenue Increase in First Quarter
- World Oil nomination for Best Completion Technology Award
- World Oil nomination for Best Exploration Technology Award
- New Technology Magazine's award for Best Exploration Technology
- MicroSeismic Receives E&P Magazine's 2010 Hart Meritorious Award for Engineering Excellence
- Largest BuriedArray™ service installed, in Sanish Field - North Dakota
- Receives Houston Business Journals Enterprise Champion Award and named to the Houston Business Journals "Fast Tech 50" list, ranked #24.
- MSI enhances service offering with Transform software reservoir data visualization capabilities
- Launched new logo and brand at SEG 2010
- Offices opened in Poland and China
2009
- Sold eight BuriedArray data acquisition programs, supporting four operators
- Launched multiple programs in Canada and in the Marcellus, Haynesville, Bakken and Eagle Ford Shale plays
- MSI granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Passive Seismic Emission Technology (PSET®) service
- Named to the Houston "Fast Tech 50" list by the Houston Business Journal
- Peter Duncan invited to speak at CERA Week 2010 in the Energy Innovations Pioneers Session
- The company achieves record revenue growth in both the US and Canada for 2009
2008
- Revenues increased by 25% over the previous year
- Opened office in Calgary
- Moved HQ offices to larger facility with 12,000 square feet of space
- CEO and President, Dr. Peter Duncan Named as the 2008 Fall AAPG-SEG Distinguished Lecturer
- Named to the Houston "Fast Tech 50" list by the Houston Business Journal in 2008. MSI was ranked number 13 out of the top 50 technology companies in Houston
- Launched Down Hole monitoring service in 2008
- Launched BuriedArray monitoring service
- Awarded world's first multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for permanently installed BuriedArray service
- Doubled the size of the North American sales team, hired a VP of Sales for US, named a VP of Sales for International, added sales representatives in China, Argentina, and Mexico
2007
- Revenue increased by 231% over 2006
- Opened office in Denver with sales, processing and operations personnel
- Completed second generation of the company's proprietary passive seismic processing software, PSET®
2006
- Revenues doubled over 2005
- In August 2006 MSI, completed a $7 million "Round B" financing from three participants, including the two "Round A" participants, Altira, Chevron Technology Ventures, and RockPort Capital Partners
- The company built its staff in anticipation of substantially expanded operations in 2007. This included adding a Chief Financial Officer, an operations management team, hiring and training additional field crews, and increasing the number of geophysicists
2003
- MicroSeismic, Inc., (MSI) was incorporated in early 2003 to commercialize passive seismic and received venture funding of $450,000. The lead investor was the Altira Group of Denver, Colorado joined by Chevron Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Chevron Corporation
- First-to-market with a novel surface array technique for hydro-frac monitoring called FracStar®
- Registered Trademarks for PSET®, PSTT® and FracStar® technologies