Oil and gas software creator Ikon Science announced today the purchase of
Edinburgh-based specialist software and interpretation company Anitec Limited,
enhancing Ikon’s anisotropic, multicomponent and time-lapse capabilities. Under the
transaction, Anitec co-founders Professor Colin MacBeth and Dr. Phil Wild will join the
Ikon team.
Based at the
since March 2004 developing a unique seismic anisotropy modeling and database
module within the RokDoc software. In September 2006 the two companies signed a
development agreement to further enhance RokDoc®’s anisotropic and multicomponant
seismic capabilities.
To enable closer links with Heriot-Watt, Ikon will also join the world-renowned
Time Lapse Project as a consortium member and will contribute funding and software
including RocDoc 3D/4D to further the consortium’s aims.
Spun out of
with the processing and interpretation of multi-component seismic data and on the
exploitation of seismic anisotropy for reservoir characterization.
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