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NEOS provides exploration services for the onshore oil & gas and mining industries. The company designs geophysical surveys, oversees airborne and terrestrial geophysical data operations, provides seismic and non-seismic data processing services, and interprets multiple geological, geophysical, and geochemical datasets. Sovereign governments, energy ministries, and natural resource operators use this information to identify, highgrade and quantify natural resource deposits of hydrocarbons, metals and minerals, and groundwater. NEOS has been at the forefront of the application of predictive analytics techniques for natural resource exploration. NEOS predictive analytics methodologies are designed to identify subtle patterns and correlations within the geo-datasets it analyzes that correspond with known natural resource deposits; once identified, the predictive algorithms search for these same correlative attributes in underexplored areas and rank and highgrade future acreage targeted for natural resource development. NEOS is privately held and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. ==History== NEOS was formed in 2008 when a group of investors extracted the necessary acquisition and interpretation technologies from a natural resource exploration company whose founder, formerly a scientist at NASA, had developed techniques to search for natural resources by applying proprietary signal processing algorithms to remote sensing data, including measurements taken from satellites and fixed-wing aircraft. NEOS is an advocate of the multi-measurement interpretation approach to natural resource exploration, which involves integrating the broadest possible range of geological, geochemical, geophysical, and petrophysical measurements. The company seeks to make use of geo-data from a variety of sources, including publicly available information, data available for license, and data resident within the archives of its customers. However, airborne remote sensing systems – including satellites, fixed-wing aircraft, and helicopters – provide the vast amount of newly acquired measurements interpreted by the company. Other companies that acquire airborne geophysical datasets include CGG and Sander Geophysics. Airborne geophysical acquisition allows service providers to survey and assess large swaths of acreage on behalf of oil & gas and mining firms in order to determine their prospectivity potential for natural resource exploration and development. Unlike the more conventional seismic acquisition technique, airborne methods do not require personnel and equipment to be placed directly on the ground for multi-week operations which reduces the risk to the health and safety of acquisition personnel and minimizes the environmental footprint of the surveying operation. Companies that process and interpret multi-measurement geophysical datasets include Fugro-Jason, Mira Geoscience, and Schlumberger. By 2008, the company’s scientists had developed unique methods to integrate hyperspectral measurements with other geophysical data – including seismic, gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic, and radiometric. In January 2010, the company hired a new CEO – Jim Hollis, formerly COO at ION Geophysical. During the year, the company announced that it was acquiring a hyperspectral survey over a 29,000 square kilometer region of the Gulf Coast that had been impacted by the April 2010 blowout at BP’s Macondo oil prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. In January 2011, the company announced that it had raised more than $60 million in expansion capital from its existing investors – Goldman Sachs, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Passport Capital – as well as from new investors including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Energy Capital Group. In June 2015, the company attracted additional investment from Ocado co-founder, Jonathan Faiman, as well as from its existing shareholders. In August 2015, NEOS bought the onshore seismic data processing business of ION Geophysical which provided the company with the capabilities to undertake the processing and interpretation of seismic as well as non-seismic geophysical measurements. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NEOS GeoSolutions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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