Our products and services have been utilized successfully all over the world in a variety of environments and terrain. Each acquisition project is unique and has its own set of distinctive challenges and obstacles to overcome. As a trusted advisor, we are there to lend a hand in accomplishing the goals and successes of our clients. Several of our partners have shared their experiences and we invite you to visit this page frequently for new stories.

Tesla Overcomes Allegheny's Complex Terrain with Hawk™ Nodal System

INOVA's Hawk System Swoops In and Captures the Marcellus Shale – In 2012, Tesla Exploration, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tesla Exploration LTD, was awarded a 3D/3C cableless acquisition project located in northern West Virginia near the Allegheny Mountain Range. The survey area was surrounded by dense hardwood forests, steep valleys and rolling hills that posed significant health, safety and environmental (HSE) challenges. Field operations with cable-based recording systems would have been highly inefficient or nearly impossible in this area. Even for an experienced crew, navigating through the thick underbrush and terrain elevations to deploy equipment would be cumbersome and hazardous. Realizing the difficulties that lay ahead, Tesla selected INOVA's autonomous nodal technology, Hawk.
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Land Recording Technology for Transition Zone (TZ) Acquisition

Dual-Purpose ARIES System Simplifies Integrated Land & TZ Surveys – A Terraseis crew operating along the Bakassi Peninsula of Cameroon managed a 157 sq km integrated land and transition zone survey located in an active fishing community. Thousands of boats cruised along the shoreline, creating a challenging environment that had the potential to hinder productivity and data quality. The crew utilized an ARIES recording system to acquire in excess of 15,000 shot points of high quality data. The success of this operation led to their recent purchase of a new ARIES II system for subsequent transition zone work. Read the Case Study

Going Cableless In Haynesville

FireFly Expands Its Presence – As FireFly continues to be deployed in different operations around the world, we are finding new ways to expand the system’s functionality to deal with a variety of operational challenges. Our customers understand the benefits a cableless system can bring to their operation from the standpoints of productivity, imaging, and HSE. FireFly has just completed the second phase of a 170 sq km survey in East Texas on a landscape that includes heavy canopy, lakes, industrial infrastructure, and private land. Using mixed sources including vibroseis, dynamite, and airguns, approximately 12,250 source points were acquired with more than 14,000 3C receiver points. Watch the Video

Operational Efficiency Yields Early Completion of 3C/3D Survey

INOVA's Scorpion-VectorSeis Technology Competes with Mother Nature in China – A Sinopec land acquisition crew in China was faced with several natural and man-made obstacles on a 572 sq km acquisition. Despite excessive background noise created from earthquake aftershocks, rivers, towns, cities, and factories, the project finished 43 days ahead of schedule. The crew operated a VectorSeis-equipped Scorpion system to capture high quality multicomponent seismic data in the foothills of Sichuan, China, and successfully acquired data from over 16,000 shot points on the 73-day project. Read the Case Study

Optimizing Productivity for High-Density Acquisitions

AHV-IV Renegade Delivers 80,000 Pounds of Efficiency – The AHV-IV Renegade, INOVA’s 80,000 pound peak force vibrator, was put to the test in a twenty-four hour, continuous recording environment in the desert of Oman. Performing the industry's first-ever Distance Separated Simultaneous Sweeping (DSSS) acquisition, the seventeen AHV-IV Renegades were critical to high productivity and acquisition success. Read the Case Study