Sercel
Designs and manufactures land and marine geophysical equipment, including ocean-bottom sensors, streamers, and offshore seismic sources.
Sercel is a designer and manufacturer of high-tech solutions for subsurface exploration, and its business extends across energy exploration, marine surveillance, and infrastructure risk management. The company works from Earth and infrastructure monitoring through energy transition and defense, with a focus on sensing and monitoring technologies that help users understand the subsurface and other environments with high data fidelity. Its solutions support a wide range of activities including oil and gas, geothermal, hydrogen, natural resources, mining, carbon capture and storage, offshore logistics and ports, defense, and ocean monitoring. The core of the business is seismic data acquisition and related sensing equipment, software, and systems. Sercel develops tools for subsurface exploration and for monitoring structures and marine environments, taking a holistic view of the seismic acquisition chain from signal emission to sensing and recording. Its structural monitoring covers bridges and other assets through low-intrusive monitoring approaches, and its marine environmental monitoring includes real-time detection of marine mammals during marine activities. In infrastructure risk management, Sercel offers solutions that help assess and rank storage sites using technical and economic criteria, including containment risk and regulatory requirements. Sercel supports customers throughout the project lifecycle with technology-driven expertise. It offers training and start-up assistance through Train & launch, helping with recording equipment, QC workflows, and geophysical parameters. It offers Asset optimization for land projects, especially vibrator fleets, using remote diagnostics, preventive and predictive maintenance, spare parts planning, and on-site support. Operational excellence services aim at improving productivity, data-driven decision-making, risk management, and overall project execution. Across these services, the company supports operators and contractors in complex environments, with a focus on data quality, tailored solutions, and ongoing technical assistance. Sercel's business is not limited to making hardware: it combines products, software, and field services to support exploration, monitoring, and operational performance across land, marine, offshore, and infrastructure settings.