Business Advantages
Quasar Geophysical Technologies (QuasarGeo) is an electromagnetic (EM) instrumentation provider developing break-through technologies for survey companies wanting easy-to-use, commercial grade, reliable equipment and oil companies seeking the most robust, highest quality survey data. Unlike the current industry-standard receivers utilizing Ag/AgCl electrodes and archaic magnetic sensing technology, QuasarGeo receivers are commercial-grade instruments designed to optimize end-to-end operations. Improvements range from storage, transportation logistics and deck-side preparation to deployment, recovery and data transfer.
State of the Industry
Electromagnetic instrumentation has been used to probe the subsurface for many decades, but only in the last 25 years have these methods been applied on the seafloor. The methods developed, primarily by academic groups at both the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, California and the University of Southampton in England, have only very recently (within the last 5-10 years) been applied to commercial surveys. To date thousands of instrument deployments have been performed as part of hundreds of individual surveys, by a variety of contractors in virtually every corner of the globe. These deployments have been used to collect data in the search for, and delineation of, hydrocarbons in the sub-seafloor using instrumentation based on the results of the earlier university work. QuasarGeo is poised to enter the instrument supply market as an independent supplier of commercial-grade seafloor EM instrumentation that meets the criteria set by both the survey contractor and the oil company customer.