Our Company

OpenGeoSolutions is a privately held Canadian Incorporation based in Calgary, Alberta.

We offer spectral decomposition / inversion services from the team that invented spectral decomposition and its inversion, and then successfully applied it world-wide.

Our History

OpenGeoSolutions history begins many years before its 2001 incorporation.

We are all Amoco heritage geoscientists whose careers have intertwined and spanned the globe (and twenty plus years). When we began our careers at Amoco Canada geophysicists spent the first two years apprenticed to processing experts and taking company training courses. We were required to understand what went into the seismic data before we put colored pencils to paper.

As careers evolved our early training provided a firm foundation for interpretations, recommendations, and ultimately for OpenGeoSolutions.

Over the years the Seismic Information System (SIS) that we trained on came under the purview of computer scientists and the implementation of new geophysical ideas took months if not years. The advent of Unix and low cost workstations enabled geophysical researchers to create a rapid prototyping environment that was the forerunner of USP. As USP evolved into a full fledged processing environment it remained firmly in the hands of geophysical research renegades committed to solving customer problems. Often a geophysicist with a dataset and a problem would arrive at Tulsa Research on Monday, leave with a solution by Wednesday and a new program would be added to the USP toolkit.

In 1998 Amoco merged with BP. In 2001 BP generously open sourced the non-proprietary portion of USP as FreeUSP for the benefit of the geophysical community and OpenGeoSolutions was founded to provide commercial support for FreeUSP. "The Short History of USP or a Funny Thing happened on the Way to Research" written by the USP team chronicles the evolution of USP up to the opensourcing. here

From 2005 on OpenGeoSolutions has played an increasing role in supporting USP and providing USP services in BP.

Paul Gutowski joined OpenGeoSolutions in 2005, Mike Bush in 2006 and Paul Garossino and Greg Partyka in 2007 reuniting the core team that invented spectral decomposition and its inversion.

Our Future

Our future is about bringing together the best people and the best technology to serve our customers needs.

Our people have built their careers on extreme customer focus, innovation and real time code development to solve problems.

Advancing the technology requires critical mass. The USP and FreeUSP toolkits are testament to our team's technical capabilities. At OpenGeoSolutions we continue to build our intellectual property portfolio around our core spectral decomposition and inversion capabilities. Specific technologies include;

    Spectral Inversion
    • Better definition of reservoir layers, baffles and boundaries
    • Improving existing algorithms, building new algorithms

    Spectral Classification
    • Application of model and data driven seismic facies characterization.
    • Identification of blocky vs. gradational boundaries.

    Spectral Discontinuity
    • Improved faulting definition and application to unconventional resource development

    Spectral Colour Characterization
    • Characterization of the spatial distribution of geology

    Reservoir Modeling and Connectivity
    • Seismic scale static and dynamic reservoir modeling of 3D reservoir architecture defined by spectral inversion and classification.

    Optimization via Genetic Algorithm
    • Application of genetic algorithms to facilitate evaluation of a broad range of geophysical and geological problems.

    Multi-Dimensional Polynomial Evaluation
    • Application of generalized form that allows rapid determination of the coefficients for any number of variables and any order of polynomial together with the associated uncertainty.