Ensoco Inc

In 1978, Energy Software Consulting was formed by John Conner to provide contract programming services. Prior to that time, he worked for BBN Geomarine Services in software development, Digicon Geophysical and Kent Navigation Systems both in software development.

In 1979, Bruce Ponton joined in partnership with John to form Energy Software Consultants adding realtime software capabilities. Prior to that Bruce worked for Austron, Inc. (Engineer on Austron-5000 Loran-C Development), Digicon Geophysical (navigation engineering, and subsequent navigation manager) and with Chevron Geosciences navigation support services group.

In 1981, a joint venture was formed between ESC and Marinav, Inc. (subsequently Oceaneering) to develop and provide third party marine navigation post-processing services. Additionally development of a realtime mini-computer based navigation system was undertaken called Prism and later Series-1.

In 1982, EnSoCo, Inc. was formed with the addition of Barry Botti, CPA and Robin Gray an ex-Marinav hardware and software engineer. From 1982 until 1984 EnSoCo provided onboard Q.C., data collection and post-processing services for 2D and 3D marine surveys.

Since 1984, EnSoCo has concentrated on post-mission processing of positioning data related to 3D marine surveys. During this period EnSoCo has developed software and processing techniques considered industry firsts, including:

• Circle survey positioning
• Theoretical front-end positioning
• Parametric streamer shaping
• Pseudo-Compass streamer modeling
• Spatial analysis using contour mapping
• Ocean Bottom Cable receiver location using seismic direct arrivals and or acoustics
• Re-processing older navigation data
• Integration of near trace picks in complex network adjustments
• On board production processing of OBC data since 1995.
• Joint development of Starfix.OBS with John E. Chance & Associates, Inc.
• Development of RTSRLS - for real-time location of receivers using seismic picks & acoustics.

EnSoCo, Inc. pioneered shipboard processing in 1991, providing its NAVPRO-3D software to Amoco for use within Amoco's proprietary IQC shipboard Q.C. package.

EnSoCo has provided processing support and software for some of the most complex 3D marine acquisitions to date. Our NAVPRO-3D and S.R.L.S. packages currently operate on INTEL, SUN, Solbourne, Silicon Graphics, and IBM RISC Unix platforms. Our INTEL office based processing features dual Pentium servers and a high throughput intranet.

Since 1997, EnSoCo has expanded its scope and has entered back into the integrated navigation systems business with Nautica and has provided onboard processing for ocean bottom cable seismic acquisition with S.R.L.S. using high end dual Pentium processors.