STRYDE Newsletter

In September 2025, the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) commissioned Geopartner Geofizyka, equipped with the STRYDE Nimble Seismic System, to acquire regional-scale reflection seismic data to support their mineral system prospectivity studies in Finland.

With an unwavering commitment to customer success, CEO Bill Mooney and the team at Polaris Seismic have contributed to numerous world-class discoveries across Africa and beyond.

In this episode of our Echoes from the Field series, STRYDE CEO Mike Popham sits down with Bill to go behind the shot and explore:

• The origin story of Polaris Seismic and their vision for the future
• The day-to-day challenges faced by crews operating in some of the world’s toughest environments
• How Polaris invests in local communities, creating sustainable benefits and a lasting positive legacy
• Best practices and lessons learned from delivering seismic campaigns across Africa and Pakistan
• How STRYDE technology has transformed survey efficiency and elevated data quality across their projects

For years, operators in the Delaware Basin faced the same frustrating reality: complex near-surface geology made deep reservoir imaging unreliable. Many eventually gave up, concluding “Seismic can’t help us here.”

In this episode of our Echoes from the Field series, STRYDE CEO Mike Popham sits down with Fairfield’s geoscience experts, Bruce and Andrew, to go behind the shot and unpack:

• What Fairfield is doing in the Permian and the imaging challenges they’ve encountered
• Insights from the ultra-high-density seismic survey they acquired - and how improved near-surface sampling transformed their ability to illuminate the reservoir
• A comparison of the three receiver technologies used during the survey and how each influenced data quality
• Key lessons learned and how these insights are shaping their plans for future exploration

High-resolution land seismic acquisition was previously constrained by cost, crew size, and practical limits on density. Real-time QC was often seen as a “necessity”, and high-density surveys were considered unrealistic for many.

In this episode of our Echoes from the Field series, Mike Popham sits down with former Exploration Manager and land seismic contractor Chris Einchcomb to unpack:

• The real-world operational challenges that led Chris to get involved in STRYDE’s development when he was at Rosneft
• Why real-time QC is no longer required for modern land seismic acquisition
• Lessons learned from the field
• How technology advances are enabling true quantitative geophysics and opening new opportunities for the next generation of geophysicists and explorers to visualise the subsurface more accurately, efficiently, and confidently