Ascend Geo LLC, a provider of land-based, cable-free seismic recording equipment, today announced its donation of the Ultra G5 System to the Exploration Geophysics Laboratory (EGL), a research group at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas in Austin. The cable-free recording system will be used to research 3-C seismic data collection in acquisition projects undertaken by the EGL as part of its research in seismic vector-wavefield technology. Ascend will participate as a member associate in the EGL as a result of the donation.

“We are excited to assist the EGL’s research efforts by providing them with our cable-free seismic system,” said Larry Denver, chairman and chief executive officer of Ascend Geo LLC. “We view Dr. (Bob) Hardage as a genuine thought leader in multicomponent acquisition and processing, and we are quite confident that the EGL will leverage our technology to further field-recording techniques and advance the industry’s ability to image reservoirs more effectively.”

Hardage, accepting the donation on behalf of EGL, commented, “ Cable-free technology is a flexible platform that will help to make 3-C acquisition affordable, and we’re proud to be one of the first to use the Ultra System to extend the EGL’s acquisition concepts. ”