MicroSeismic History
- Celebrating 10 years of innovation
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2013 Gulf Coast Area award winner – Technology
- CNBC named an Energy Industry Disruptor on the inaugural CNBC Disruptor 50 List
- Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D. featured on CNBC Squawk Box to discuss the use of microseismic data to reduce risk and build bottom lines in the energy sector
- Geophysical Society of Houston/SEG honors Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D. at their 2013 Spring Symposium
- Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D. recognized as a celebrated entrepreneur at the Houston Technology Center’s (HTC) 10th annual “A Celebration of Entrepreneurs” gala
- Houston Business Journal CFO of the Year nominee and Fast 100 nominee
- Introduced Downhole Monitoring with EventPick™ Processing Technology
- World Oil's Innovator of the Year award in 2012
- Ernst & Young nomination for Entrepreneur of the Year
- Inc 5000 Fast Growing Companies in US 2012 – ranked 988 overall, 36 in energy industry and 20 in Houston
- Ranked 6th in the energy industry for Inc.’s 2012 Hire Power Awards
- Moved to new corporate office in Houston
- Opened new office in Pittsburgh
- Method of imaging the earth’s subsurface using passive seismic interferometry and adaptive velocity filtering patent awarded
- Completed a $100M majority recapitalization with TA Associates and Madrone Capital Partners
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists announces Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D. as an honorary member in September 2011
- World Oil - Innovative Thinker Award Nominee - Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D.
- Awarded #7 in the FastTech 50 Award presented by Houston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing companies in Houston
- Method of passive seismic emission tomography using adaptive velocity filter patent awarded
- Method for imaging the earth’s subsurface using passive seismic sensing patent awarded
- Method for passive seismic emission tomography including polarization correction for source mechanism patent awarded
- World Oil nomination for Best Completion Technology Award
- World Oil nomination for Best Exploration Technology Award
- New Technology Magazine's award for Best Exploration Technology
- MicroSeismic receives E&P Magazine's 2010 Hart Meritorious Award for Engineering Excellence
- Largest BuriedArray™ service installed in Sanish Field - North Dakota
- Receives Houston Business Journals Enterprise Champion Award and named to the Houston Business Journals "Fast Tech 50" list, ranked #24
- MicroSeismic enhances service offering with Transform software reservoir data visualization capabilities
- Launched new logo and brand at SEG 2010
- Method for seismic emission tomography patent awarded
- MicroSeismic granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Passive Seismic Emission Technology (PSET™) service
- Named to the Houston "Fast Tech 50" list by the Houston Business Journal
- Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D. invited to speak at CERA Week 2010 in the Energy Innovations Pioneers Session
- Opened office in Calgary
- Moved HQ offices to larger facility with 12,000 square feet of space
- CEO and President, Peter M. Duncan, Ph.D. Named as the 2008 Fall AAPG-SEG Distinguished Lecturer
- Named to the Houston "Fast Tech 50" list by the Houston Business Journal. MicroSeismic was ranked number 13 out of the top 50 technology companies in Houston
- Launched Downhole monitoring
- Launched BuriedArray™ permanent & real-time shallow subsurface monitoring
- Awarded world's first multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for permanently installed BuriedArray™ service
- Doubled the size of the North American sales team, hired a VP of Sales for US, named a VP of Sales for International, added sales representatives in China, Argentina, and Mexico
- Opened office in Denver with sales, processing and operations personnel
- Completed second generation of the company's proprietary passive seismic processing software, PSET™
- In August 2006 MicroSeismic, completed a $7 million "Round B" financing from three participants, including the two "Round A" participants, Altira, Chevron Technology Ventures, and RockPort Capital Partners
- The company built its staff in anticipation of substantially expanded operations in 2007. This included adding a Chief Financial Officer, an operations management team, hiring and training additional field crews, and increasing the number of geophysicists
- MicroSeismic, Inc., (MicroSeismic) was incorporated in early 2003 to commercialize passive seismic and received venture funding of $450,000. The lead investor was the Altira Group of Denver, Colorado joined by Chevron Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Chevron Corporation
- First-to-market with a novel surface array technique for hydro-frac monitoring called FracStar™
- Registered Trademarks for PSET™, PSTT™ and FracStar™ technologies
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Peter Duncan, Founder and CEO of MicroSeismic, Inc., joined CNBC on May 30, 2013 to describe how microseismic monitoring is helping the energy industry use big data to reduce risk and build their bottom lines. Click here to view the video.
MicroSeismic, Inc. was named an Energy Industry Disruptor on the inaugural CNBC Disruptor 50 List on Friday, May 17, 2013, during Fast Money. Click here to view the video.
