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Full-Service Team

That Cares About Your Project & Your Results

Meet Your Experienced,
Full-Service Team

That Cares About Your Project & Your Results

Transforming The Way Subsurface Imaging is Done

Lower Footprint with

Get the data you need and create less of an environmental footprint.

Enhance Performance with

By providing better, high-quality information, you can mitigate your risk and maintain safe operations on your projects.

Increase Efficiency with

If you want the data you need to make quality decisions and without too much data so that you can maintain budgets, that’s where we can come in.

The Company

OptiSeis Solutions Ltd. was founded in 2011 in response to a rapidly changing seismic exploration landscape. Field equipment was getting smaller, data was getting bigger, processing was getting faster, and advanced reservoir characterization was quickly becoming a competitive advantage.

OptiSeis answered with high-quality, integrated customer service that provided trusted, data-driven designs for high-resolution seismic images. Clients embraced the OptiSeis advantage, due to the care and attention their programs received, especially around increasing infrastructure constraints. Clients continue to return to OptiSeis for the target focused results, and cost-effective technology driven answers they trust.

Eleven years on, OptiSeis’ suite of services continues to expand as we push geophysical boundaries in local markets and abroad.

The Company

OptiSeis Solutions Ltd. was founded in 2011 in response to a rapidly changing seismic exploration landscape. Field equipment was getting smaller, data was getting bigger, processing was getting faster, and advanced reservoir characterization was quickly becoming a competitive advantage.

OptiSeis answered with high-quality, integrated customer service that provided trusted, data-driven designs for high-resolution seismic images. Clients embraced the OptiSeis advantage, due to the care and attention their programs received, especially around increasing infrastructure constraints. Clients continue to return to OptiSeis for the target focused results, and cost-effective technology driven answers they trust.

Eleven years on, OptiSeis’ suite of services continues to expand as we push geophysical boundaries in local markets and abroad.

The Team Behind It All

Our team is highly skilled in all aspects of Geophysics, from initial design to final interpretations. We are obsessed with understanding your data and using this knowledge to optimize seismic surveys for efficient field operations and reduced environmental impact.

Andrea Crook

CEO

Mostafa Naghizadeh, P. Geo

Director of R&D

Alyson Yip, G.I.T

Product Manager & GIS Analyst

Randy Kolesar

Software Developer

Michelle Montano, G.I.T

Junior Geoscientist & Geospatial Analyst

Anita Knudsen, P. Geo

Senior Geophysicist

Laura Yan

Software Developer

Stephanie Ross

Seismic Processing & QC Specialist

Fernando Berumen Borrego, M.Sc

Junior Geophysicist

Industries We Serve

Oil & Gas

Critical Minerals

CCS

Geothermal

Nuclear

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Andrea Crook

CEO

Andrea is CEO of OptiSeis Solutions Ltd., a company she founded in 2011. Andrea’s extensive geophysical experience in seismic processing and geophysical operations was established at Shell Canada and Boyd PetroSearch/RPS. At OptiSeis, she has built a team of geotechnical experts and oversees geophysical research, seismic acquisition design services, processing QC services, interpretation services, software development, and sales. Andrea is the project lead for the EcoSeis development project, which aims to reduce the environmental footprint of acquiring seismic data. In addition to her work at OptiSeis, she is an instructor for the SEG and the CSEG Doodletrain, and an active contributor in the field of geophysics with numerous papers, presentations, and the recipient of the 2019 CSEG Technical Achievement Award.

Mostafa Naghizadeh, P. Geo

Director of R&D

Mostafa is the Chief Technology Officer at OptiSeis where he is developing creative new ways to process uniquely designed seismic surveys by considering the subsurface imaging requirements as well as minimizing the environmental footprints. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Ph.D. in Geophysics, specializing in complex seismic interpolation algorithms with spatial aliasing removed. Mostafa built upon his Ph.D research while working as a postdoc researcher in CREWES and SAIG and later put his research to work as a Processing Geophysicist at Shell Canada. He then went on to share his passion for geophysics at Laurentian University as Assistant Professor, where he taught Exploration Seismology as part of the Metal Earth project until 2021. Mostafa is the proud recipient of the J. Clarence Karcher Award from the SEG in 2011.

Alyson Yip, G.I.T

Product Manager & GIS Analyst

As the Product Manager at OptiSeis, Alyson consolidates her geophysics, GIS and computer science background to develop innovative solutions for seismic acquisition. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a BSc. specializing in Geophysics, followed by Applied Degree in GIS from SAIT and is currently working towards a BSc. in Computer Science and Information Systems. During her GIS degree at SAIT, Alyson developed web applications focused on improving coordination effects in large scale emergencies. Alyson worked with Explor to design a least cost path algorithm to improve the efficiency of vibrioses trucks on the field during surveying. She built on her knowledge on remote sensing, data management and programming while working for Farmer’s Edge Inc. Her role involved processing, organizing and utilizing data from CanPlugs within tractors. She led the development of the Carbon and Nitrogen Emissions project aimed at reducing the environment impact of farming.

Randy Kolesar

Software Developer

Randy Kolesar operates as Senior Software developer at OptiSeis, with over 35 years of industry experience. He graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.Sc. in Computer Science. His first job was at Veritas software where he was involved in developing one of the first 3D Seismic Survey Design packages called ‘Field Design’. Over the next twenty-five years, he worked for Seismic Image Software and then GEDCO. His main development work over that time was focused on the Vista processing software and OMNI. In 2012 GEDCO was purchased by SLB. At SLB Randy managed the research, development, and commercialization of the VISTA Desktop seismic processing, OMNI 3D Survey Design and Petrel Survey Design Plugin software. After retiring in 2021, Andrea convinced him to come back to work with OptiSeis following his passion of developing leading edge seismic software.

Michelle Montano, G.I.T

Junior Geoscientist & Geospatial Analyst

Michelle is a Junior Geoscientist and Geospatial Analyst at Optiseis where she works closely with our team of geoscientists and software developers to design and execute seismic acquisition programs both within Canada and internationally. Before joining Optiseis, she worked in R&D of a borehole acoustic tool with Turkana. Her role involved the design of the signal used by the tool, acquisition QC and processing. Prior to this, Michelle completed a MSc. degree in Geophysics with the University of Calgary where she focused her research on Seismic Attenuation with CREWES. During her research, she processed multicomponent VSP data, and she delivered various presentations for the CSEG and SEG. Before moving to Canada, Michelle participated in several Seismic Acquisition projects in Venezuela. Here, she QC’ed each stage of the data acquisition in the field. Michelle also obtained a BSc. degree in Geophysics from the Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela.

Anita Knudsen, P. Geo

Senior Geophysicist

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Laura Yan

Software Developer

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Stephanie Ross

Seismic Processing & QC Specialist

Stephanie is the Seismic Processing QC Specialist at OptiSeis where she works on acquisition test evaluations and processing QC. She began her processing career at Gulf Canada Resources, in the days of mainframe computers and 80 column card input. Over the years she worked at Western Geophysical, Geco-Prakla, CGG, Arcis and Edge Technologies. She has processed land data from all over the world, with a specialization in high-resolution processing, primarily in the WCSB, as well as front-end processing and refraction. Over Stephanie’s career, she has designed and implemented many successful processing flows and trained many junior processors in the fine art of seismic processing. In 2019, Stephanie wrote and presented a hands-on processing course designed for interpreters. Stephanie also co-wrote and co-presented ‘So, You’re Acquiring a Seismic Survey and Having it Processed – What Questions Should You Be Asking?’ for Doodletrain2020.

Fernando Berumen Borrego, M.Sc

Junior Geophysicist

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