Land EM Acquisition

KMS Technologies provides boutique land and marine non-seismic acquisition services anywhere in the world. With our global alliances partners we have access to the largest non-seismic equipment inventory in the industry (> 10 gravity meters, > 150 MT acquisition sets, several multi-channel Long Offset Transient ElectroMagnetics (LOTEM) systems (up to 100 channels, up to 200 KW). Our resources can handle over 10,000 MT sites per year and two LOTEM crews.

EM methods describe the Earth’s conductivity from shallow to depths as great as 6 km. They include controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) and natural-source EM (magnetotellurics, MT).

Together with our alliance partners, we provide boutique land non-seismic data acquisition services (EM, magnetic, and gravity) to the oil and geothermal industry. We offer land MT and LOTEM data acquisition, EM data processing and interpretation services, including 3-D MT data inversion. Integrating MT with seismic has significant benefits in basins where seismic imaging is challenged by salt or basalt.

Our track record as KMS Technologies (our staff has extensive prior experience on five continents)

  • Largest commercial sub-salt imaging survey in Germany 2002

  • Advisory land MT survey in Libya 2006

  • First commercial tCSEM™ survey for major oil company

  • 2-D and 3-D geothermal survey in Iceland 2007

  • 2-D and 3-D MT/gravity surveys in Hungary since 10/2007 that resulted in successful geothermal well discovery

  • 3-D Geothermal survey  in Milos, Greece 2009

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