Company Profile

Advanced Seismic Instrumentation and Research LLC (ASIR) specializes in seismic instrumentation and installation, seismic data analysis, custom-made solutions, frack monitoring, and permeability enhancement research. Customers include: • Energy companies needing frack and hazard monitoring.• Entities seeking small local seismic networks to monitor earthquake risk and environmental impact. • Research institutes aspiring to install deep borehole instrumentation. Staff Experience includes 300+ custom designed, fabricated and deployed borehole stations; design of instruments for the harshest conditions -hottest (195 ºC), deepest ( 4.2 Km), and deviated (60º). Working in Scientific observatories, regional national networks, reservoir monitoring, geothermal, varied energy technologies, EGS, CO2 sequestration, fracking. Principals of the firm have also 50+ refereed scientific publications individually and collaborating colleagues. Over 35 borehole and monitoring projects conducted worldwide have included Deep borehole instrumentation and installation projects: Koyna Dam, India – 8 slimline seismometers network at 1500 m depth; CAGS, China – 4600 m deep installation, 4 levels – SAFOD, California – 32 levels VSP 800 to 2000 m depth; TCDP, Taiwan – 7 level VSP 900 to 1300 m depth and Long Valley Caldera, California – several installations 2700 to 1800 m depth. Monitoring networks include those in Switzerland; Turkey; New Zealand; Australia; Indonesia; Hawaii; two in California and