Through ongoing research and development programs and strategic acquisitions, ION has assembled a comprehensive technology toolkit that spans the entire seismic workflow. Forty years since its founding as Input/Output, the ION family of companies today provides advanced acquisition equipment, command & control software, planning and imaging services, and seismic data libraries to the global oil & gas industry.
From its roots in a Stafford, Texas manufacturing facility, ION has expanded to a presence in key petroleum centers around the world. Operating from 20 locations and with a workforce comprised of more than 60 nationalities, ION fosters a culture dedicated to pushing the boundaries of seismic innovation and to delivering projects locally through a workforce that reflects the unique needs of the various countries and customers with whom we do business.
Our Customers
ION serves two primary customer segments:
• Oil & gas companies are the ultimate end-users of seismic data. Our clients – including supermajors, national oil companies, and independent producers – engage us directly to design seismic surveys and provide advanced processing services, purchase licenses to our seismic data libraries, or secure our program management services for integrated, end-to-end seismic imaging projects.
• Seismic contractors purchase our imaging equipment and software to acquire high-quality seismic data on behalf of their oil & gas company clients.
Target Regions
Russia, The Ukraine, Central Asia
Key Projects
Land and marine seismic surveys
Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration
Service Offering
Land Acquisition Technology
Since our founding as a land seismic equipment company, ION has been at the forefront of technological innovation in land seismic equipment development. In March 2010, ION and BGP (subsidiary of China National Petroleum Company) joined forces to form a new and independent company, INOVA. Poised to become the land seismic technology company of the 21st century, INOVA draws upon ION’s rich tradition of innovation in land seismic product development, ARAM’s philosophy of ‘no excuses’ customer service, and the practical operating insights BGP has acquired as the world’s largest land seismic contractor. INOVA’s product portfolio of land seismic acquisition systems, sources and sensors includes FireFly, the world’s first cableless system for full-wave land acquisition, and the award-winning VectorSeis digital, full-wave sensor.
ION’s Sensor geophone business, the leading designer and manufacturer of precision geophones used in seismic data acquisition, has been retained by ION and is not part of the land joint venture.
Marine Acquisition Technology
ION’s marine toolkit allows one-stop shopping when outfitting modern streamer vessels or ocean bottom cable (OBC) crews. Offerings include positioning and streamer control systems, source and source control systems, streamer acquisition systems, and full-wave seabed (OBC) acquisition systems. Our Concept Systems group is a leading supplier of advanced command & control systems that integrate and quality control data acquisition in towed streamer, OBC, electromagnetic (EM) and land surveys.
Data Processing and Reservoir Services
Our GX Technology (GXT) group is an industry leader in advanced seismic imaging both offshore and onshore. GXT pioneered pre-stack depth migration (PreSDM) and its application to hard-to-image subsalt reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico. ION’s innovation continues today with reverse time migration (RTM), a technique that GXT has introduced in some of the toughest imaging environments around the world. GXT’s capabilities are recognized onshore as well, with tools that have proven especially useful when imaging or characterizing fractured reservoirs. Given its affiliation with the ION family, GXT is a leader in processing large, full-wave (multicomponent) datasets and in helping clients undertake advanced geophysical analysis of full-wave data to characterize lithological, fluid saturation, or fracture intensity variations within hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Located in the capital of the world’s second largest oil producer and the largest holder of proven natural gas reserves, Moscow is home to our LARGEO-ION/GXT center, strategically located to deliver a wide range of advanced seismic data processing services to the Russian market.
LARGEO-ION/GXT(http://www.iongeo.com/About_Us/Business_Units_and_Subsidiaries/GX_Technology/LARGEOION/) combines the technological strengths of ION’s GX Technology (GXT) Imaging Solutions group with the local market knowledge and extensive experience of LARGEO. The alliance provides the latest GXT data processing innovations for E&P companies operating in Russia and the CIS, making LARGEO-ION/GXT number one in terms of in-country processing.
BasinSPAN Regional Seismic Programs
ION owns one of the most up-to-date seismic data libraries in the industry, consisting of high-resolution, depth-migrated data from around the world. ION’s BasinSPAN™ library consists of regional programs acquired and imaged using the most advanced geological and geophysical technology available. BasinSPAN programs are custom designed in partnership with energy ministries, E&P companies, and regional geoscience experts to provide critical insight into the geologic evolution, deep basin architecture, and depositional and structural history of entire petroleum systems. The resulting data provides oil & gas companies with new information for under-explored or unexplored basins as well as insights into source rock deposition, thermal maturation histories, sediment fairways, migration pathways, and potential reservoir trapping mechanisms. In addition to the depth migrated seismic data, every BasinSPAN program comes with a complete interpretation report highlighting potential play concepts. From an initial program in the Gulf of Mexico, ION’sBasinSPAN library today covers most major offshore petroleum provinces
Executive Officers
Robert (Bob) P. Peebler
President & CEO
R. Brian Hanson
Executive Vice President & CFO
Chris Friedemann
Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing
David Roland
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Michael Morrison
Vice President and Corporate Controller
Global Workforce
ION has over 900 employees who operate from 23 facilities in 12 separate countries
AMERICAS
Calgary, Caracas, Bogota, Dallas, Denver,
Houston (2), New Orleans, Ponca City(Oklahoma), Port-of-Spain (Trinidad)
ASIA PACIFIC
Beijing (China)
EUROPE
Moscow, United Kingdom (5), Voorschoten (Holland)
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Luanda (Angola), Jebel Ali (UAE), Port Harcourt (Nigeria), Dubai (UAE), Cairo (Egypt)
Contact Details
Jean Januard
ION GXT LARGEO
Vice President, Russia & CIS
Email: jean.januard@iongeo.com
Anton Stepin
ION MISD
Business Development Manager
Email: anton.stepin@iongeo.com
Alex Livshits
ION ISS
Business Development Manager
Email: Alex.Livshits@iongeo.com
Mikhail Shimorin
ION DP
Data Processing Manager
Email: Mikhail.Shimorin@iongeo.com
Telephone: +7 495 981 46 01 +7 495 981 46 01
Fax: +7 495 981 46 06
Web: www.iongeo.com