The Seismos Platform
Acoustic Measurement Across the Energy Value Chain.
From upstream completions to midstream pipelines to renewable geothermal — Seismos delivers real-time, surface-based intelligence without downhole tools.
From upstream completions to midstream pipelines to renewable geothermal — Seismos delivers real-time, surface-based intelligence without downhole tools.
The Measurements
Each metric addresses a specific blind spot in conventional completions diagnostics — and each one is measured in real time, from the surface, with no downhole hardware.
Are your perforations working as designed — or are clusters dropping out intra-stage? SAFA measures this continuously, not once per stage.
Learn more →How evenly is fluid distributing across clusters? Every 0.1-point improvement adds ~$300K NPV per well. R² = 0.92 production correlation.
Learn more →The industry estimates pipe friction from correlations. A 200–400 psi error corrupts every downstream calculation. SAFA measures it directly.
Learn more →Perf friction changes throughout every stage. Measuring it once means designing the next stage on stale data. SAFA measures it at every rate event.
Learn more →Plug leaks and excessive erosion are invisible to treating pressure. SAFA detects abnormal flow area changes in real time — catching $150K+ problems intra-stage.
Learn more →A production-correlated score for every stage, trained on 15,000+ measurements. Know whether your completion is working during execution — not months later.
Learn more →Platform Architecture
Seismos unifies three capabilities that have never existed in a single platform. Each step feeds the next. Every stage makes the system smarter.
Seismos' acoustic sensing technology captures perforation friction, pipe friction, and cluster-level flow distribution at high-frequency during active pumping. No fiber. No downhole tools. No offset well. No NPT.
Every measurement feeds a proprietary database of 100,000+ stages spanning multiple basins and operators. Machine learning models identify performance patterns, predict degradation trajectories, and generate stage-specific optimization recommendations.
When perforation efficiency deviates from the target envelope, Seismos prescribes corrective interventions and executes them at surface with millisecond-scale latency. Field results: stages receiving intra-stage intervention showed 33% less perforation efficiency degradation.
Database Scale
Most optimization platforms start from zero on every pad. Seismos does not. The platform draws on 100,000+ stages of completion and production data — including 15,000+ with direct Seismos acoustic measurements — spanning six major basins and 100+ operators. This database powers cross-pad benchmarking, basin-level trend analysis, performance envelope refinement, and AI-driven recommendations that no single operator's experience can match.
The more wells that run through the Seismos platform, the more precise the recommendations become. Operators who deploy Seismos do not just optimize individual stages — they contribute to and benefit from a continuously improving intelligence layer.
Competitive Positioning
Not all "real-time" claims are equal. Resolution, scalability, and independence matter.
Most completions technology providers offer a subset of these capabilities — often locked to a specific pumping company, dependent on downhole hardware, or limited to post-stage analysis. Seismos delivers all of them from the surface, on every stage, with any pumper.
| Capability | Seismos (SAFA) | Fiber Optic | Step-Down Test | Offset Well | Surface Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface-based (no downhole tools) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time intra-stage feedback | Yes | Conditional* | No | No | No** |
| Cluster-level resolution | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Zero NPT | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No offset well required | Yes | N/A | Yes | No | Yes |
| Production-correlated metrics | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI-driven recommendations | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Pumper agnostic | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Published validation (R²) | 0.92 | Reference standard | N/A | N/A | N/A |
* Fiber real-time intra-stage feedback requires permanent cemented fiber optic cable in the treatment well. This approach delivers high-quality data but at significant cost per well, making it economically impractical as a standard monitoring method across full development programs.
** Surface pressure analytics operate at stage level, not intra-stage. Methods that infer cluster performance from treating pressure provide stage-level summaries after the stage is complete.
The Seismos Product Suite
Each product operates independently or as part of an integrated workflow — all powered by the same surface-based acoustic measurement technology.
Measures perforation efficiency, Uniformity Index, pipe friction, perf friction, and flow area in real time — from the surface, on every stage, with any pumping company.
Explore SAFA →Production-correlated stage benchmarking via the Near-Field Connectivity Index (NFCI). Trained on 15,000+ stages with paired production data. No fiber. No waiting for production results.
Explore Wellbore Integrity →Predictive Pipeline Health Management. Non-intrusive acoustic monitoring that detects leaks, corrosion, and mechanical degradation without shutting down operations — in ad-hoc or continuous configurations.
Explore PPHM →Acoustic monitoring adapted for enhanced geothermal systems. Real-time measurement of stimulation effectiveness and subsurface flow characterization — without downhole instrumentation that cannot survive geothermal temperatures.
Explore SAFA for Geothermal →The Science
Surface-based acoustic measurement is not a proxy or correlation — it is a direct physical measurement. These pages explain the underlying methodology and equations.
How surface-mounted transducers capture subsurface signals, why acoustic propagation through fluid-filled pipe provides a direct measurement of friction, and the physics that make SAFA possible without downhole tools.
Read Acoustic Principles →The full measurement methodology: transducer placement, signal processing, friction decomposition, Uniformity Index calculation, and NFCI scoring. Equations included for technical audiences.
Read How It Works →Request a technical demo and we will walk your team through live Seismos data — measurement, analysis, and optimization in a single workflow. No pitch deck. Real data from real wells.
See Seismos in ActionOr contact us directly: info@seismos.com