(WO) — Seismos has opened a new applied acoustics research center in Jarrell, Texas, featuring a 2,349-ft full-scale flow loop designed to advance acoustic sensing, closed-loop well stimulation and real-time completion optimization.
The 87,120-sq-ft Seismos Applied Acoustics Research Center provides a controlled testing environment where operators, technology partners and researchers can replicate wellbore and pipeline conditions to develop and validate measurement technologies.
The facility includes acoustic sensing systems, flow meters, fiber-optic instrumentation and other measurement technologies. Its full-scale flow loop can be configured to simulate varying perforation designs, fluid systems, flow rates, pressures, proppant loadings and erosion conditions.
A primary focus of the center is advancing closed-loop stimulation, which uses real-time physical measurements to evaluate treatment performance and guide operational adjustments while a hydraulic fracturing stage is being pumped.
Seismos will use the facility to test and validate measurements of pipe and perforation friction, effective hydraulic diameter, flow distribution and perforation efficiency. The research will also support the development of AI-powered completion optimization and automation systems.
According to the company, its existing database includes measurements and subsurface information from hundreds of thousands of stimulation stages. Data generated at the new center will expand that resource, supporting the development of AI models and operational decision-making tools.
The center is designed as an open research platform for collaboration with oil and gas operators, technology partners, universities and national laboratories. Research will extend beyond upstream applications to pipeline integrity, critical infrastructure monitoring and other industrial sensing technologies.
“Our focus remains on solving some of the most difficult measurement and control challenges in upstream oil and gas and pipelines, including continuing to advance closed-loop operations,” said Panos Adamopoulos, founder and CEO of Seismos.
The company said the facility will also support research into complex flow behavior, fluid dynamics, multiphase flow and physics-based AI, with the goal of improving measurement accuracy and expanding acoustic sensing applications across multiple industries.
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