Anton Reshetnikov

Universal Seismic Pte Ltd (Singapore)

Co-Founder, Managing Director & CTO, 10/2018 – present

• Co-founded to hold the IP for, and commercialize, Fracture Imaging, the method I invented in my PhD, together with a new approach to moment tensor inversion and other geophysical inversion algorithms.
• Bootstrapped on customer revenue with a team of five or fewer; 50+ projects for major US operators.
• Field validation published with clients (SPE HFTC 2024).
• Handle sales, proposals, contracts, pricing and client delivery.
• Built the processing platform (C++, Python, HPC, AWS), including a full microseismic workflow for fiber optic sensing (DAS) data.

Independent (Berlin, Germany)

Consulting Geoscientist, 11/2014 – 09/2018

• Developed a fast 3D ray-tracing algorithm for anisotropic rock, used to build velocity models and locate microseismic events.
• Invented a new approach to microseismic moment tensor inversion.
• Built cloud infrastructure that streams seismic data from the field and runs geophysical inversions in real time.
• Delivered microseismic reflection imaging and moment tensor inversion projects for US oil & gas operators.

Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 10/2013 – 05/2017

• Researched the physics of fluid-induced seismicity.
• Developed new ways to check the quality of microseismic data and the accuracy of earthquake locations.
• Consulted for industry sponsors of the PHASE university consortium.
• Supervised BSc and MSc students.

Research Assistant (PhD), 09/2007 – 10/2013

• Invented microseismic reflection imaging: using microearthquakes as sources to image fractures and faults at high resolution (PhD thesis). Now commercial as Fracture Imaging.
• Applied it to the Basel geothermal reservoir to help reduce the risk of large induced earthquakes.
• Imaged the San Andreas Fault zone at the SAFOD deep drilling site, contributing to a better understanding of fault zone geometry and tectonic processes.

Geovers Ltd (Moscow/St. Petersburg, Russia)

Team Leader, 02/2005 – 09/2007

• Established and ran the company's St. Petersburg subsidiary, a team of about 10.
• Built commercial seismic processing software for velocity model building, depth imaging and ray tracing in anisotropic media.

Software Engineer, 02/2001 – 02/2005

Developed nonlinear inversion and elastic wave simulation algorithms, shipped in the UNIVERS VSP software package.

Redsky Ltd (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Co-Founder, 06/2004 – 09/2007

Co-founded a web design and IT consulting firm alongside my studies and engineering job.