Herman Nieuwoudt, Executive Vice President, CMG Group, and President, Seismic Solutions | August 2025
Seismic interpretation is about to get faster, smarter, and more connected. CMG Seismic Solutions is uniting Bluware, Sharp Reflections, and SeisWare into an open ecosystem that removes workflow bottlenecks, enables real-time collaboration, and transforms seismic insight into faster, more confident drilling and development decisions.
The energy industry is undergoing a major shift in how it approaches subsurface challenges. With growing data volumes, more complex reservoirs, and increasing pressure to support energy transition goals, there’s a clear need for smarter, faster, and more connected interpretation tools.
One of the most persistent barriers to progress in seismic interpretation is not the complexity of the subsurface itself, but the fragmentation of workflows. In many organizations, seismic data still moves through a chain of disconnected formats, storage systems, and teams. This slows down analysis and creates bottlenecks between interpretation, modeling, and decision-making.
The combined capabilities of Bluware, Sharp Reflections, and SeisWare, via CMG’s newly established Seismic Solutions, aims to close those gaps by providing a continuous workflow, where geoscientists, engineers and data scientists can work from the same dataset at the same time, This would be an industry first, turning seismic insight into actionable plans with record speed and cohesion.