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Seismos provides Measurements While Fracturing (MWF) a mainstream Quality Control tool that uses acoustics and AI to detect under/over-stimulation in real-time and suggests subtle design tweaks to ensure Lateral Stimulation Consistency
Published July 16, 2020
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Updated July 30, 2025
Oil & Gas
Completions
Subsurface
Product Overview
Overview
Seismos is a global leader in Acoustic Sensing technology, boasting over 45 patents and operations across the United States, Canada, the Middle East, South America, and China. The company specializes in real-time, non-invasive monitoring solutions for tubular systems such as wellbores and pipelines, serving industries that require precise monitoring like oil and gas during completion and production, subsurface pipeline leak prevention, geothermal energy, and CCUS.
SAFA™ (Seismos Acoustic Friction Analysis)
SAFA™ utilizes acoustic principles to analyze rapid rate drops, providing real-time measure of pipe and perforation friction while calculating perforation efficiency and uniformity Index. This real-time information facilitates precise adjustments in completion design, enhancing performance and reducing risks and costs.
Deliverables:
- Pipe Friction Factor: Darcy-Weisbach friction factor
- Perf Friction Coefficient: Quantifying perforation friction
- Perf Efficiency: Efficiency of perforations
- Uniformity Index (UI): Volumetric distribution uniformity of slurry
- Initial entry hole diameter: verifying initial EHDs to designed specifications
- Offset Pressure/FDIs: Pressure response in adjacent wells
Use Cases:
- Optimize perforation schemes, fluid composition, and pumping strategies.
- Fine-tune fracturing fluid properties using acoustically generated pipe friction curves and bottomhole pressure data
- Assess slurry distribution and perforation cluster effectiveness with UI
- Vertify initial EHD conditions before perforation conditions begin to change
Benchmark:
- Permanent and deployable fiber (92% match)
- Downhole pressure gauges (0.3% deviation)
MWF™ (Measurements While Fracturing)
MWF™ enhances stimulation quality by continuously emitting acoustics through the wellbore fluid, aiming to maximize near wellbore stimulation and identify optimal fracture systems. This system requires minimal setup with no operational modifications needed.
Deliverables:
- Near Field stimulation (fracture conductivity/flow)
- Far Field stimulation (conductivity)
- Fracture dimensions
- Stress interferences/FDIs
Use Cases:
- Achieve uniform near wellbore connectivity across stages, managing stress interactions for consistent lateral stimulation
- Implement cost-effective completion designs to enhance near-field connectivity
- Enable stage-wise production adjustments through real-time monitoring
PPHM™ (Predictive Pipeline Health Monitoring)
This technology uses controlled acoustics to monitor pipeline health without halting operations. It's designed for easy integration into various pipelines, including unpiggable ones, and is effective in detecting potential failures like blockages and deformations.
Deliverables:
- Detect anomalies such as collapsed liners and blockages
- Locate bends and internal diameter changes
- Assess buildup growth rates
- Predict leaks through early anomaly detection
Business Model
UPSTREAM
Depending on the completions schedule and agreement, pricing is either:
- On a per well basis
- Or on a per day/month basis (for licensed systems)
PIPELINES
- on a per pipe section
- on a preriodic inspection (continuous program)
Technology Innovations
Seismos extends beyond diagnostic technologies, displacing the need for fiber optics by introducing a plug-and-play system that seamlessly connects to the wellhead and uses acoustics and AI to continuously monitor each stage's stimulation performance.
The system uses acoustics at a wide spectrum of frequencies to interrogate the hydraulically connected volumes of the fracture system.The acoustic energy is emitted from an acoustic source connected to the wellhead, travels via the fluid, and measures the stimulated near the wellbore area.The tool leverages passive and active acoustics emitted before, during and after the stimulation.
- Zero Non-Productive Time (NPT)
- Universal applicability across all wells
- Real-time output streaming
- Cloud-based & local user interface
- 24/7 remote completion support
Applications
SAFA™ (Seismos Acoustic Friction Analysis)
- Optimize perforation schemes, fluid composition, and pumping strategies.
- Fine-tune fracturing fluid properties using acoustically generated pipe friction curves and bottomhole pressure data.
- Assess slurry distribution and perforation cluster effectiveness with UI.
- Vertify initial EHD conditions before perforation conditions begin to change
MWF™ (Measurements While Fracturing)
- Achieve uniform near wellbore connectivity across stages, managing stress interactions for consistent lateral stimulation.
- Implement cost-effective completion designs to enhance near-field connectivity.
- Enable stage-wise production adjustments through real-time monitoring.
PPHM™ (Predictive Pipeline Health Monitoring)
- Early anomaly detection to prevent failures and minimize inspection costs.
- Remote pipeline monitoring to reduce field manpower and avoid right-of-way access issues.
- Quickly identify blockages to reduce downtime.
- Seismos' technologies are designed to deliver high performance and reliability in critical monitoring applications, enhancing operational efficiencies across multiple industries.