TGS Appoints Scott Michell As Senior Vice President Of Imaging

TGS, a leading provider of multi-client geoscience data for exploration & production (E&P) companies, has appointed Scott Michell as Senior Vice President in-charge of Imaging.

According to the company, Scott will oversee all Imaging and R&D activities, and focus on further enhancing the Company’s technology portfolio.

TGS made the announce in a statement posted on the company’s website.

Scott joins TGS with 28 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry, initially with Conoco and the last 23 years with BP.

He served in a range of senior leadership roles focused on developing and applying seismic acquisition and imaging technology solutions to reduce exploration, appraisal, and production risk.

Some of Scott’s career highlights include his most recent role at BP as Global Seismic Delivery Manager and Director of Geophysics, co-inventor of the Wide Azimuth Towed Streamer (WATS) technology, Deep Water Ocean Bottom Seismic technologies, designing and leading the seismic imaging technology program in the U.S., and Seismic Delivery Manager for 3 of BP’s key regions – Gulf of Mexico, U.S. lower 48 and Alaska.

Scott has also been named in several high profile patented seismic technologies, is widely published and is a regular speaker at key industry forums.

Meanwhile, TGS has also sign an agreement with Google Cloud in a bid to secure access to cloud-based on-demand compute power and also compliments TGS’ on-premises compute capacity.

The arrangement provides a flexible hybrid compute solution that enables TGS to deliver on complex, compute intensive projects and to focus on cycle time reduction while preserving superior data quality.  

Commenting on the appointment and the agreement, Jan Schoolmeesters, Executive Vice President of Operations at TGS, said, “We are excited to welcome Scott to TGS and equally excited to announce our partnership with Google Cloud. These combined efforts support our next phase of innovation and expansion and will help bolster the company’s future performance as we head into an evolving market. We are particularly well placed to respond to the market’s needs by providing high-quality processing and complex imaging solutions. This will enable us to continue to help our customers de-risk their exploration activities faster.”