Vision and Values
At ION Geophysical, our vision is to integrate the capabilities across the company and through our partners to solve the toughest problems in the industry.
People and Culture
ION Geophysical cultivates a diverse culture filled with industry experts who thrive in our entrepreneurial environment to develop customized seismic solutions and groundbreaking technologies.
Technology and Innovation
ION Geophysical is a proven technology innovator constantly advancing survey design software, acquisition equipment, command and control software, and data processing to support worldwide seismic operations.
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ION Geophysical is committed to improve the quality of our products and services, provide a safe work environment for our employees, and protect the environment.
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Optimization Software and Services
ION provides industry-leading survey design software and services to design, model, plan, and execute the most complex seismic surveys in all acquisition environments.
Survey Planning & Optimization Services
ION offers a comprehensive set of survey planning, modeling and analysis tools designed to deliver the best images as cost effectively as possible.
Field Acquisition Specialists
ION's Field Acquisition Specialists manage software and operations to dynamically optimize marine acquisition from survey planning to the final shot point.
Survey Design and Planning
MESA survey design software provides unprecedented design, planning, and modeling capabilities for land and marine acquisition projects.
Ice Management
By combining multiple data sources, Narwhal helps vessel captains, ice pilots and analysts to better visualize and predict ice conditions, and better plan Arctic seismic and drilling operations and mitigate risk.
Command and Control
Comprehensive suite of products addresses the navigation requirements of 2D, 3D, and 4D seismic surveys for both towed streamer and ocean bottom seismic (OBS) operations.
Field Acquisition QC
Rio helps solve seismic QC issues during acquisition to expedite seismic data processing workflows.
Simultaneous Operations
Marlin, the first fully integrated commercial software solution for optimizing simultaneous operations during seismic acquisition.
Acquisition Systems
ION provides seismic data acquisition imaging systems for marine towed streamer and ocean bottom seismic, in addition to geophones for land seismic data acquisition.
Towed Streamer
ION's industry-leading towed streamer acquisition seismic technology enables superior marine seismic data to be acquired safely and efficiently.
Ocean Bottom
ION provides ocean bottom seismic acquisition systems and services to overcome the toughest geophysical imaging challenges.
Geophones
ION provides geophones and ancillary geophone equipment to capture high-quality data in any seismic data acquisition environment.
Data Processing
ION Geophysical delivers a full suite of seismic data processing services through a seasoned team of experts who share an uncompromising commitment to provide the highest quality image.
Pre-Processing
By enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio, ION's imaging services group is able to optimize seismic data for advanced pre-stack time and depth imaging.
Advanced Imaging
As one of the industry leaders in pre-stack depth migration and reverse time migration (RTM), ION's imaging services group provides advanced land and marine imaging to solve the toughest imaging challenges.
Full-wave Imaging
By utilizing full azimuth and multicomponent data, ION helps E&P operators solve exploration challenges and reduce drilling risk by providing a more complete understanding of the reservoir.
Land Processing
ION’s imaging services group has the tools, knowledge, and experience to help E&P operators better understand the geology of unconventional reservoirs including shale and tight gas plays, enabling them to maximize exploration and production.
Marine Processing
ION offers advanced seismic data processing with vast experience in critical marine processing techniques, including subsalt imaging.
Ocean Bottom Processing
ION has developed a comprehensive suite of advanced algorithms that leverage both P-wave and converted wave data to dramatically improve complex subsurface imaging and reservoir attribute analysis in the seabed environment.
Arctic Processing
ION applies several proprietary processing technologies to successfully overcome the geophysical challenge of removing multiples, ghosts and complex noise unique to seismic data acquired near and under arctic ice.
Ocean Bottom Seismic Services
A fully integrated OBS solution, including survey design and planning, data acquisition, data processing, interpretation and reservoir services, delivering superior OBS data for enhanced reservoir understanding.
E&P Advisors
ION E&P Advisors partner with E&P operators, energy industry regulators and capital institutions to capture and monetize E&P opportunities worldwide. We provide technical, commercial and strategic advice across the exploration & production value chain, working at basin, prospect and field scales.
Reservoir Services
ION’s Reservoir Services team provides a range of offerings, from individual services such as simultaneous inversions or pore pressure prediction, to fully integrated interpretations including selection of optimized well locations.
E&P Advisors
ION E&P Advisors partner with E&P operators, energy industry regulators and capital institutions to capture and monetize E&P opportunities worldwide. We provide technical, commercial and strategic advice across the exploration & production value chain, working at basin, prospect and field scales.
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Tour ION’s data library featuring programs in Africa, the Arctic, Latin America, the Gulf of Mexico, India, Asia Pacific, the North Atlantic, and more.
Africa
Our seismic programs provide a holistic understanding of the petroleum systems off the western and eastern coasts of Africa and help operators assess the hydrocarbon potential of this region.
CongoSPAN
CongoSPAN consists of two phases totaling over 27,000 kilometers of data acquired off the coasts of Angola, Congo, and Gabon.
East AfricaSPAN
Located offshore Madagascar, Kenya, and Tanzania, East AfricaSPSAN is a regional seismic program and geologic study designed to understand large-scale hydrocarbon potential.
EquatorSPAN
EquatorSPAN is a 2D seismic program set in the equatorial Atlantic margin providing greater insight of the tectonic architecture of the West African Gulf of Guinea margin.
NigeriaSPAN
NigeriaSPAN is a basin-scale 2D seismic program in the Gulf of Guinea and is showing great new plays in deeper shelf, deepwater Nigeria and JDZ and Sao Tome and Principe.
Libya
LibyaSPAN provides a comprehensive picture of the geology north of the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
NamibiaSPAN
Consisting of 11,000 km of data, NamibiaSPAN provides insight into the architecture of various basins along the Namibian margin.
East Africa Lakes Reprocessing
East Africa Lakes Reprocessing survey contains approximately 6,800 km of reprocessed legacy data.
MS & CROP
MS & CROP reprocessing results tie seamlessly together, creating a consistent regional seismic framework with modern imaging that covers the entire eastern and central Mediterranean Sea.
Arctic
ArcticSPAN is comprised of several large-scale programs of deeply imaged seismic data covering the Beaufort-MacKenzie, Banks Island, Chukchi, East Greenland Rift, and Danmarkshavn basins.
BeaufortSPAN East
BeaufortSPAN consists of over 23,000 km of deeply imaged regional data that has fundamentally changed the understanding of the production potential of the MacKenzie Delta, Beaufort Passive, and the Banks Island Basin area.
ChukchiSPAN
By tying into the five critical wells in the Chukchi Basin, ChukchiSPAN helps define the resource potential of the region's petroleum systems from the Barrow Arch in the east to the Russian border in the west.
Northeast GreenlandSPAN
Northeast GreenlandSPAN is largely comprised of data acquired through ION's proprietary acquisition technology and provides critical insight into this highly potential but challenging region.
Eastern Russia ArcticSPAN
Eastern Russia ArcticSPAN (ERAS) programs extend from the Laptev Sea eastward to the Chukchi Shelf. With approximately 17,000 km of data, the programs provide the most complete geologic portrayal of the region.
BeaufortSPAN West
Asia Pacific
ION Geophysical offers a series of seismic data programs in the Asia Pacific region that provides E&P operators the insight into the petroleum systems of the region.
ArafuraSPAN
ArafuraSPAN provides a better understanding of the Arafura Basin potential source rock intervals, and delivers insights into the petroleum system structures, reservoirs, and seal mechanisms of the area.
BightSPAN
BightSPAN is a regional geologic study comprised of 2D seismic data mapping the active petroleum systems and identifying potential limits of new and existing plays.
JavaSPAN
JavaSPAN is a regional seismic data program and geologic study that extends from Madura Island, East Java to south of Sulawesi and north into the Makassar Straits.
NatunaSPAN
Located offshore northern Indonesia, NatunaSPAN comprises high-quality, 2D seismic data designed to examine new and existing play types.
WestraliaSPAN
Europe and Middle East
ION's GeoVentures team has designed unique programs in Europe and the Middle East that provide an improved understanding of the geologic evolution and basin architecture of these regions.
Northeast AtlanticSPAN
Northeast AtlanticSPAN is a regional 2D seismic survey that provides a highly consistent dataset designed to image the less explored areas recognized to contain hydrocarbon potential beneath thick basalts.
PolandSPAN
PolandSPAN is multi-phased program that will provide the foundation of integrated geologic knowledge and a consistent seismic framework from which to build future studies.
Porcupine 3D (Ireland)
A new 4,000 sq. km. 3D multi-client seismic survey offshore southwest Ireland, the first major survey of the significantly underexplored deep-water Southern Porcupine Basin.
Black Sea
New high-quality data from this seismic survey data provides critical insights into this complicated, prolific area, modifying existing theories about the geologic structures of the Black Sea.
MS & CROP
MS & CROP reprocessing results tie seamlessly together, creating a consistent regional seismic framework with modern imaging that covers the entire eastern and central Mediterranean Sea.
Porcupine 2D
India
Acquired in two phases, IndiaSPAN is a regional seismic data program and geologic study covering the major basins off the east and west coasts of India.
North America
Covering a number of key regions in North America, ION Geophysical's seismic data programs are comprised of both offshore and onshore, 2D BasinSPAN and 3D ResSCAN programs.
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico BasinSPAN suite of programs provide an unprecedented view of the entire Gulf of Mexico Basin.
NovaSPAN
NovaSPAN provides a comprehensive understanding into the geologic evolution and basin architecture of the margins of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Marcellus Shale
ION's multi-client surveys in the Marcellus shale provide operators a better understanding of the play to determine acreage assessment, identify optimum well locations, and maximize production.
Niobrara Shale
ION's NiobraraSCAN 3D multi-client seismic survey features densely-sampled, 3C seismic data for better characterization of the highly fractured Niobrara Formation.
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South America
ION's GeoVentures team custom-designed seismic programs that provide a holistic understanding of the petroleum systems off the coasts of Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and in the areas of the southern Caribbean and northern margin of South America.
Argentina
ArgentineSPAN provides and improved understanding of the geologic evolution of the Argentine Atlantic margin and its deep basin architecture.
Brazil
The programs off the coast of Brazil provide a comprehensive understanding of Brazil's highly productive petroleum systems.
Peru
PeruSPAN is a program designed to acquire multi-client, 2D seismic data to improve understanding of the region's tectonics as well as new and existing play types offshore Peru.
Uruguay
UruguaySPAN provides a coherent seismic dataset across the Punta del Este Basin and provides a tie to Argentina and Brazil.
The Guianas
ION’s GuyanaSPAN and French Guiana Reprocessing programs include over 7,000 km of newly acquired and newly depth-migrated data. Combined with adjacent data in offshore Brazil, the programs provide an advanced geologic framework of the petroleum systems of the region.
Caribbean
ION’s Caribbean programs include over 20,000 km of newly depth-migrated data, providing a true, regional dataset that delivers a more accurate understanding of the regional geology and basin architecture in the area.
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Insights into the Mediterranean Sea
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Articles
Including all things seismic in the oil & gas industry, the articles in this section discuss everything from seismic data processing techniques to the latest acquisition technology and more.
Abstracts and Papers
ION’s Abstracts and Technical Papers cover a wide range of topics written by our in-house industry experts detailing the latest theories, research, and conclusions on some of the industry's hottest topics.
Case Studies
ION’s Case Studies tell the stories of our problem solving approach and applications of technology and provide a deeper dive into the capabilities of our diverse team of people and experts.
Training and Support
Contact ION for information about training and support for our marine acquisition systems, Concept Systems command and control software, and GMG's MESA software.
Marine Imaging Systems Training
Check out the ION Geophysical course lists for Marine Imaging Systems, and book training or find out more about customized courses.
Optimization Software and Services Training
Check out the ION Geophysical course lists for Concept Systems, and book training or find out more about customized courses.
Marine Repairs and Spare Parts
Multimedia
ION’s digital media library includes videos, presentations that highlight the history of innovation, entreprenurial spirit, and culture of collaboration at ION.
Brochures and Data Sheets
The ION’s library of brochures and data sheets includes information on our innovative seismic technologies, geophones, marine seismic acquisition and positioning equipment, command and control software, data processing services, seismic data programs, and more.
Brochures
Browse our library of ION Geophysical brochures for information about our innovative seismic technologies, marine seismic acquisition and more.
Field Service Bulletins
Browse our library of ION Geophysical field service bulletins for more information about our Sensor Geophones and Marine seismic data acquisition.
Data Sheets
Browse our library of ION Geophysical product data sheets for information about our innovative seismic technologies, marine seismic acquisition and more.
Software Release Notes
Technical Specifications
Search Resources
ION delivers the latest technology to produce the highest fidelity land and marine subsurface images and reduce the risk and cost of finding and producing hydrocarbons. By developing new technologies, new methodologies, and new business models, we provide our clients with significantly greater value from their seismic data.