Overview
S-Cube: VC-backed industry-leading Full Waveform Inversion technology launched from Imperial College London for the Energy Industry
S-Cube - creating next-generation FWI technology to eliminate human bias and provide a step-change in seismic imaging quality. Replace reserves efficiently and reduce emissions through safe storage of CO2.
Appointed CEO in 2019. Leading a team of outstanding talent from Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial in a high-growth VC-backed enterprise, founded on the back of core IP arising from breakthrough research at Imperial. https://www.s-cube.com/team
Chevron (2011-2015) - creating and deploying proprietary in-house technology. Located initially in San Ramon, California and subsequently in Houston, Texas. Leading FWI pilots on fields located offshore Brazil and Nigeria.
JK Washbourne, NK Shah, KP Bube - US Patent 9,075,159, 2015 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9075159/en *(filed Jun 2011)*
Imperial College London (2009-2013) - PhD, Theoretical and Computational Optimisation. Notable new mathematical developments in the theory of seismic inversion. Attracted VC seed funding to commercialise research and launch a spin off entity.
What others say
- Ruth Williams, Reader in Mathematical Physics at the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge: “Shah’s pioneering work has a very promising future in bringing enhanced automation and efficiency to data-intensive industrial processes. It should help accelerate a much needed transition to greener energy provision.”
https://issuu.com/girtoncollege/docs/the_year_2018-19_final_sc/s/156787 - Franz Deimbacher, Worldwide Technical Lead, Energy, Amazon Web Services: “AWS Technology Partner S-Cube’s recognition at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards 2020 follows the launch of their uniquely engineered cloud-native architecture, with promising potential use cases for the energy transition.” https://www.platform-oilandgas.com/news/s-cube-is-named-as-a-finalist-in-three-categories-of-the-prestigious-lloyds-bank-national-business-awards-uk
- Thomas Cousins, Strategic Partnerships and Alliance Manager, Halliburton: “We are pleased to see our iEnergy Partner S-Cube selected for the AWS Competency Programme for High Performance Computing. S-Cube’s achievement will help accelerate the development of advanced Full Waveform Inversion, and further the integration of XWITM with Halliburton’s SeisSpace Software. We believe fully data-driven workflows for subsurface evaluation can enable more rapid adoption of CCUS, an essential component of the energy transition to a low carbon future.” https://www.oilandgasproductnews.com/article/36188/award-winning-cloud-powered-ai-produces-detailed-mapping-of-earths-crust
Awards and Achievements
2021 - strategic partnership with Halliburton and AWS for seismic imaging for carbon capture and storage https://www.oilandgasproductnews.com/article/36188/award-winning-cloud-powered-ai-produces-detailed-mapping-of-earths-crust
2020 - execution of the energy industry’s first 1m core cloud-native computational workload with Woodside and AWS https://www.woodside.com.au/media-centre/news-stories/story/cores-for-celebration
2020 - 3x nominations at the Lloyds Business Awards (Growth through Innovation, Data Excellence, Artificial Intelligence) http://elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/analysis/item/finalists-named-for-this-year-s-national-business-awards-sponsored-by-lloyds-bank
2019 - recipient of Young Entrepreneur of the Year award https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xwi_goals-ceo-growth-activity-6596961658432700416-NUSP
2013 - Recipient of Award for Best Geophysics Paper https://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Best_Paper_in_Geophysics_Award
2009 - Recipient of Full Scholarship award for doctorate under Prof. M. Warner, culminating in selection for research commercialisation with venture capital award from IP Group PLC https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/114913/inventors-corner-earth-detection/
2005 - Gertrude Mather Jackson Prize for Mathematics, Girton College, University of Cambridge, 2005
2005 - M T Meyer Scholarship for Mathematics, Girton College, University of Cambridge, 2005
Selected Publications
Adaptive reflection waveform inversion: Faster, tighter, deeper, smarter (2021). M Warner, T Nangoo, A Umpleby, N Shah, D Kahn, M Isernia https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/segam2021-3594686.1
Improving Seismic Imaging with High Resolution Velocity Model From AWI Starting with 1D Initila Model - Case Study Barents Sea (2018). T Roth, T Nangoo, N Shah, M Riede, C Henke, M Warner https://www.earthdoc.org/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.201800008;jsessionid=SmcZX5JwH6fsiWbS-Tzb4_vK.eagelive-10-240-8-189