Absolute Imaging News Archive 2016
November 2016
Absolute Imaging joins Alberta trade mission to India
The Alberta Government, in conjunction with Global Affairs Canada and Export Development Canada, led a trade mission to New Delhi, India from December 4 to 7, 2016. Absolute Imaging Inc. was one of only eighteen companies selected to represent Alberta. The trade mission offered an opportunity for one-on-one meetings with potential joint venture partners, agents, and producers.
The Alberta trade mission also participated in the Petrotech 2016 Conference which was an excellent platform for Alberta companies to meet with specialists and experts to discuss opportunities within the Indian oil and gas industry. Elvis Floreani, President, Absolute Imaging Inc. and Ajit Singh, President, Absolute Imaging India represented Absolute at the Alberta trade mission and the Petrotech 2016 Conference.
Ajit Singh, President, Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Ltd.; and Elvis Floreani, President, Absolute Imaging Inc.
Absolute Imaging joins Alberta trade mission to India
October 2016
Absolute Imaging signs MOU with Neoil Exploration, Colombia
Neoil Exploration, based in Bogota, Colombia recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to be Absolute Imaging’s business development and technical partner for the Latin America market. Neoil Exploration (www.neoilexploration.com) offers services that support the process of exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Latin America. Their highly qualified team has over 30 years’ experience in the industry.
October 2016
Nick Nikic joins Absolute Imaging as Manager, Marine Processing & Depth Imaging
Absolute Imaging welcomes Nick Nikic as Manager, Marine Processing & Depth Imaging. Nick will be responsible for coordinating & developing Absolute’s marine & depth imaging capabilities both domestically and internationally. Nick can be contacted by email at nick@absoluteimaging.ca or by phone at 1.403.806.6371.
September 2016
Absolute Imaging’s India office moves to IT Park in Noida, India
Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Limited recently moved to a larger office space in the Stellar IT Park in Noida, India. For more information contact the President of Absolute Imaging International (India), Ajit Singh at ajit@absoluteimaging.ca.
Absolute Imaging International (India) Pvt Ltd.
2nd Floor, Office No. 6
Tower II of Stellar IT Park
Plot No C-25, Sector 62
Noida, India
Telephone: +91 1204231428
Telephone: +91 9899701428
Telephone: +91 9650234024
September 2016
Ryan Van Zandt joins Absolute Imaging as a GIS and Geophysical Technologist
Absolute Imaging welcomes Ryan Van Zandt. Ryan can be contacted by email at ryan@absoluteimaging.ca or by phone at 1.403.209.6849
August 2016
Elvis Floreani meets with Canadian Trade Commissioner in India
During his recent visit to India, Elvis Floreani, President of Absolute Imaging and Ajit Singh, President, Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Ltd. met with Mr. Saibal Ghosh, Canadian Trade Commissioner at the Canadian Embassy in Delhi.
Mr. Saibal Ghosh, Canadian Trade Commissioner in Delhi India; Ajit Singh, President, Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Ltd.; and Elvis Floreani, President, Absolute Imaging Inc.
August 2016
Seismic data technology seminar in Tehran
Absolute Imaging and JV partner Well Services of Iran (Schlumberger Methods) www.wsi-oilfield.com hosted a Technology Day in Tehran on August 1st, 2016. Over 55 representatives from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) attended. A few examples of the topics covered include: depth imaging, AVO compliant processing and specialized noise removal. A recently completed seismic processing project in Iran was discussed and used as examples.
Rob Tilson (left), Chief Geophysicist, Absolute Imaging, presenter at seismic data technology seminar in Tehran
July 2016
Project in Pakistan awarded to Absolute Imaging
Absolute Imaging was recently awarded a 2D seismic processing/reprocessing project in Pakistan for AEPL. The project includes two blocks; Potwar South and Baska North.
July 2016
Elvis Floreani to visit Oman, Iran and India
Elvis Floreani, President of Absolute Imaging will visit Muscat (Oman), Tehran (Iran) and Delhi (India) from July 24 to August 12, 2016 to meet with clients and partners. Absolute recently incorporated in India as Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Limited and hired Ajit Singh as President. Elvis and Rob will be in Delhi to discuss business development opportunities. If you would like to meet with the Absolute Imaging team, contact us at info@absoluteimaging.ca.
June 2016
Mark Watson joins Absolute Imaging as VP Sales and Corp Strategy
Absolute Imaging welcomes Mark Watson as Vice President of Sales and Corporate Strategy. Mark will complement Absolute’s sales team and assist in building its client base and brand, both domestically and Internationally.
Mark Watson has over 20 years of industry experience and was most recently with Seitel Canada for the past 8 years as Senior VP of Sales and Marketing and Senior VP of Operations. Prior to his tenure at Seitel Mark was the Manager, Data Library with Arcis and worked as Senior Field Geophysicist with Schlumberger-WesternGeco. Mark has an Earth Sciences and a Geography degree from the University of Winnipeg and is currently pursuing his MBA at the London School of Economics. Mark is a member of the CSEG and SEG.
Mark Watson can be contacted by email at markw@absoluteimaging.ca or by phone at 1.403.806.6735.
May 2016
Ajit Singh joins Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Limited as President
Ajit is responsible for Management of the company in India as well as Business Development. He has a Master’s Degree in Science with Technology in Exploration Geophysics from BHU, India and has over 28 years of experience in both technical and managerial roles.
Before joining Absolute in India, Ajit was associated with Asian Oil Field Services Limited (a leading seismic data acquisition service company in India) as Vice President, Business Development. Ajit initially started his career as a Wireline Logging Engineer in a Public Sector Company in India. He successfully introduced indigenous perforating services along with stacked tool technology operations in Coal Bed Methane E&P in India. His interest in drilling also tempted him to bring new technology in Directional Drilling for Chromite and base metal mining.
Using his significant technical experience and strong industry connections, Ajit has been a very successful Business Development Manager in his past assignments by providing capital raising, valuation and corporate advisory services in the company. His passion towards technology innovation shows his ability to think about business in a different way. Ajit’s professional affiliations include memberships with various professional organizations: Society of Petroleum Geophysicists, Association of Exploration Geophysicists, and Mining Engineer’s Association of India. He has made several technical presentations to various local and national professional societies meetings.
Ajit Singh can be contacted by email at ajit@absoluteimaging.ca or by phone at +91 98997 01428 or +91 96502 34024.
May 2016
Absolute Imaging opens office in India
Absolute Imaging announces the incorporation of Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Limited and the opening of an office in Delhi, India.
Absolute Imaging International (India) Private Limited
G-33, 2nd Floor
Aruna Park, Shakarpur
Delhi, India, 110092
Tel: 91 98997 01428
Tel: 91 96502 34024
April 2016
Absolute Imaging International Inc. signs service agreement with Well Services of Iran
The services agreement with Well Services of Iran (Schlumberger Methods) is to provide Seismic Data Processing services to the Iranian market. Absolute has recently completed 1200 km of 2D reprocessing for KEPCO which is one of five upstream companies involved in exploration and production under the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
March 2016
Stewart Trickett and Rob Tilson co-chair 2 sessions at GeoConvention 2016
Topic: What have you done to my data?
Monday, March 7, 8:30-11:30 AM
TELUS Room 101-102 at the TELUS Convention Centre
This session presents seismic processing advances that we expect are of interest to processing clients in particular.
Topic: Seismic Attenuation and Inversion
Monday, March 7, 1:30-4:30 PM
TELUS Room 101-102 at the TELUS Convention Centre
This session presents advances on seismic attenuation correction and seismic inversion.
September 2015
Stewart Trickett to be presenter at SEG 2015 workshop
Friday, October 23, 8:30 AM – Noon
Ernest L. Morial Convention Center, Room 215/216
Absolute Imaging researcher, Stewart Trickett will be presenting at a post-convention SEG workshop in New Orleans. His topic is Frequency-domain Rank-reduction Applications in Seismic Processing. Over the last 15 years, matrix rank reduction methods have been developed for noise removal and interpolation of seismic data. These methods have primarily been applied on constant-frequency slices, as a key theorem states that the signal should have low rank in this domain. Over the years these filters have been extended to multiple dimensions, robust filtering for erratic noise, source deblending, de-aliasing, tensor rank reduction, coherent noise removal, automatic rank determination, and computational speedups. Stewart will briefly describe these developments and show many examples. Visit the SEG 2015 workshop website for more details.
September 2015
Stewart Trickett to be presenter at SEG 2015
Absolute Imaging researcher Stewart Trickett, will be a presenter at SEG 2015 in New Orleans. His topic is: Preserving Signal: Automatic Rank Determination for Noise Suppression. For more information view Stewart’s Trickett’s abstract; Preserving Signal: Automatic Rank Determination for Noise Suppression.
September 2015
Dr. Jianhua Pan to be presenter at SEG 2015
Absolute Imaging researcher, Dr. Jianhua Pan will be a speaker at SEG 2015 in New Orleans. His topic is: A New Upward and Downward Wavefield Continuation for Two-way Wave Equation Migration. Jianhua describes a new two-way wave equation migration that combines the efficiency of one-way wave equation migration with the imaging capability of reverse time migration. This approach extrapolates the wavefield in the frequency-wavenumber domain along the depth axis. For more information view Jianhua Pan’s paper; A New Upward and Downward Wavefield Continuation for Two-way Wave Equation Migration.
September 2015
Stewart Trickett to co-chair session at SEG 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 8:30 AM
Ernest L. Morial Convention Center, Room 209
Absolute Imaging researcher, Stewart Trickett will co-chair a session at SEG 2015 in New Orleans. The topic will be: Seismic Reconstruction Domains.
May 2015
Stewart Trickett speaker at Structured Low-rank Approximation workshop
Absolute Imaging researcher Stewart Trickett has been invited to give a talk on June 1 at a workshop on structured low-rank approximations in Grenoble, France (www.gipsa-lab.fr). Stewart’s talk will be an overview of rank-reduction methods in seismic exploration. The workshop attendees are primarily university researchers from across Europe.
May 2015
Absolute Imaging hosts Grassi Lakes field trip for clients
Back by popular demand, Absolute Imaging, in conjunction with the Canmore Museum, has organized a one day hike to Grassi Lakes in Canmore Alberta. The hike is a 3.2 km round trip, crosses three thrust faults, nine rock units (with five of them exposed) and features an excellent exposure of the Cairn Formation which is the Devonian Reef unit in Alberta. The hike is led by Ben Gadd who is a Rockies guide, writer and speaker who has written 10 books on the Canadian Rockies (www.bengadd.com).
May 2015
Jianhua Pan presenter at GeoConvention 2015
Absolute Imaging researcher, Dr. Jianhua Pan was a speaker at GeoConvention 2015. His topic was: A new upward and downward wavefield continuation for two-way wave equation migration. (www.geoconvention.com/uploads/2015abstracts).
May 2015
Absolute Imaging exhibits at GeoConvention 2015
Absolute was an exhibitor at GeoConvention, Calgary, May 4 to 8 (www.geoconvention.com).
September 2014
Absolute Imaging hosts client and employee event
Absolute hosted an annual client and employee cocktail event at the Contemporary Gallery of Calgary. Winner of the glass art titled “fire” by Striking Glass (www.strikingglass.ca) was Melissa Frankiw.
May 2014
Absolute Imaging hosts Grassi Lakes field trip for clients
In conjunction with the Canmore Museum, Absolute Imaging organized a one day hike to Grassi Lakes, in Canmore Alberta. The hike was a 3.2 km round trip, crossed three thrust faults, nine rock units (with five of them exposed) and featured an excellent exposure of the Cairn Formation which is the Devonian Reef unit in Alberta. The hike was led by Ben Gadd who is a Rockies guide, writer and speaker who has written 10 books on the Canadian Rockies (www.bengadd.com).
May 2014
Absolute Imaging exhibits at GeoConvention 2014
Absolute was an exhibitor for the first time at GeoConvention, Calgary, May 12 to 14 (www.geoconvention.com).
April 2014
Absolute Imaging co-hosts annual hockey draft pool with Seitel
On April 15th Absolute and Seitel Solutions Canada (www.seitel.com) hosted an annual hockey draft pool at the Libertine on 8th Avenue. Included a sport memorabilia raffle with all proceeds going to the Calgary Veterans Food Bank.
Feb 2014
Absolute Imaging Inc. exhibits at the Denver Geophysical Society (DGS) and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) 3D Seismic Symposium in Denver, Colorado, USA
October 2013
Absolute Imaging hosts client and employee event
Absolute hosted an annual client and employee cocktail event at the Art Gallery of Calgary. The winner of this year’s Carl White painting was Ke Lovan at Western Zagros.
Ke Lovan (left) at Western Zagros, winner of the 2013 Carl White painting, presented by Elvis Floreani.
September 2013
Absolute Imaging was an exhibitor at the AAPG ICE Convention in Cartagena, Colombia.
May 2013
Absolute Imaging Presents Poster at GeoConvention 2013
Titled:5D Interpolation of Seismic Data Using a Hybrid MWNI and POCS Algorithm
Author: Dr. Jianhua Pan
• 5D Interpolation of Seismic Data Using a Hybrid MWNI and POCS Algorithm Poster
April 2013
Absolute Imaging co-hosts annual hockey draft pool with Matrix
On April 30th Absolute and Matrix Drilling Fluids (www.matrixdrilingfluids.com) hosted an annual hockey draft pool at the Libertine on 8th Avenue. Included a sport memorabilia raffle with all proceeds going to the Calgary Veterans Food Bank.
March 2013
Absolute Imaging Inc. exhibits at the Denver Geophysical Society (DGS) 3D Seismic Symposium – Denver, Colorado, USA
September 2012
Absolute Imaging hosts client and employee event
Absolute hosted an annual client and employee cocktail event at the Art Gallery of Calgary.
August 2012
Absolute Imaging Moves to New Location
Our new address is Suite 400, 1011 1st Street SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2R 1J2
May 2012
Absolute Imaging Sponsors the student Challenge Bowl at GeoConvention 2012
May 2012
Absolute Imaging Presents Posters at GeoConvention 2012
Titled: Bin-Share Stacking for 3D Converted Wave Processing.
Authors: Dr. Alex A. Falkovskiy, Rob Tilson, Gerry Schlossser and Elvis Floreani.
• Bin-Share Stacking for 3D Converted Wave Poster
• Bin-Share Stacking for 3D Converted Wave Abstract
Titled: Kirchhoff Prestack Time Migration with Angle Domain Common Image Gathers.
Authors: Dr. Jianhua Pan, Rob Tilson, Gerry Schlossser and Elvis Floreani.
• Kirchhoff Prestack Time Migration Abstract
• Kirchhoff Prestack Time Migration Poster
April 2012
Absolute co-hosts annual hockey draft pool with Matrix Drilling Fluids
On April 11th Absolute and Matrix (www.matrixdrillingfluids.com) hosted an annual hockey draft pool at the Craft Beer Market. Included a sport memorabilia raffle with all proceeds going to the Calgary Veterans Food Bank.
October 2011
Absolute Imaging hosts event to celebrate 5 year anniversary
Clients and Absolute employees celebrated Absolute’s 5 year anniversary at a cocktail reception at the Calgary Art Gallery.
May 2011
Absolute Imaging Sponsors the student Challenge Bowl at GeoConvention 2011
May 2011
Absolute Imaging Presents Posters at GeoConvention 2011
Titled: Application of FX Singular Spectrum Analysis on Structural Data.
Authors: Dr. Alex A. Falkovskiy, Gerry Schlossser and Elvis Floreani.
• Application of FX Singular Spectrum Analysis Abstract
• Application of FX Singular Spectrum Analysis Poster
Titled: FX Cadzow / SSA Random Noise Filter: Frequency Extension.
Authors: Dr. Alex A. Falkovskiy, Gerry Schlossser and Elvis Floreani.
• FX Cadzow SSA Random Noise Filter Abstract
• FX Cadzow SSA Random Noise Filter Poster
May 2010
Absolute Imaging Presents Poster and Abstract at GeoConvention 2010
Titled: A Practical One Way Scalar Wavefield Extrapolation: A Step Forward in True Amplitude Processing
Author: Dr. Zhengsheng Yao
• A Practical One Way Scalar Wavefield Extrapolation Presentation
• A Practical One Way Scalar Wavefield Extrapolation Poster
February 2009
Absolute Imaging Inc. Acquires Direct Digital Online Inc. (DDO) from Seitel Solutions – Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Absolute Imaging Inc. is pleased to announce the purchase of Direct Digital Online Inc. (DDO). Established in June 1998, DDO offers a comprehensive and diverse range of services specializing in seismic archiving, reproduction, data copying/retrieval and data management. DDO is committed to providing on time and on budget solutions that will provide Absolute’s clients with rapid and accurate access to their data.