type incorporated industry energy geoscience software headquarters houston texas united states key people arshad matin ceo & president 1 products kingdom advanced kingdom core website seismic micro technology seismic micro technology smt is the maker of kingdom software . it is the global market share leader for windows based interpretation . smt developed the first seismic interpretation tools for the windows environment . 2 kingdom software is used by 2 700 companies in over 95 countries . 3 kingdom software is used to find sources of oil & gas in the subsurface and is used by 85 percent of the 150 largest petroleum exploration and production companies . smt s customer base includes international and national companies as well as independent companies and consultants . more than 50 percent of sales come from international sales . 4 in august 11 2011 seismic micro technology was acquired by ihs inc. contents 1 business locations 2 company history 3 management 4 products 5 university program 6 external links 7 references business locations edit seismic micro technology s headquarters resides in houston texas . branch offices are located in croydon uk moscow brazil singapore and calgary . 5 6 company history edit in 1985 smt licensed the first kingdom license on a pc in dos to chevron . in 1993 smt sold the first windows nt application for oil & gas industry to barrett bros. in 1996 the first integrated 2d and 3d seismic package into the windows environment . in 2000 smt software was in 23 of the top 50 oil & gas operators . 4 in 2003 smt europe opened its office in croydon united kingdom . in 2006 smt asia opened its office in singapore and there were more new license s sold outside the united states than in it for the first time . 7 in 2009 smt signed a software contract with india s oil and natural gas corporation ongc agreeing to train 200 geoscientists on both interpretation best practices and kingdom software in six indian cities . 8 management edit in 2007 the company re capitalized with investments from technology crossover ventures tcv and jmi equity jmi . 2 jake reynolds general partner of tcv ; david yuan vice president of tcv ; and bob smith general partner of jmi joined smt s board of directors at this same time . 2 at that time founder and ceo thomas smith retired with arshad matin becoming ceo and president and a member of the board of directors . 4 previously he had served as vice president and general manager of the compliance and security management business at symantec . 9 products edit smt s kingdom 8.3 was updated to 8.4 in 2009 to aid oil and gas companies attempting to capitalize on unconventional locations for drilling . 10 11 in 2008 the welling report ranked smt as holding the largest market share for pc based interpretation . 12 university program edit smt has established a software donation program for 160 universities in key oil and gas regions in 27 countries . the goal of smt s educational gifts program is to put workstation software in the classroom so those students graduating from universities are equipped for the job market with workstation experience . the donations began in 2001 and occur in the form of three year grants . 13 the total estimated value exceeded more than 150 million . 13 of the 150 million 1.5 million of the donation went to imperial college in london 14 and 1.4 million to the university of houston . 15 external links edit seismic micro technology official website oil and gas investor interview arshad matin ceo of seismic micro technology about challenges facing oil & gas customers e & p magazine visualization comes of age january 5 2009 e & p magazine seg supercomputing 2008 set the stage december 1 2009 seismic micro technology overview of smt brochure seismic micro technology linkedin profile ihs kingdom solutions an independent open forum seismic to simulation alliance references edit seismic micro technology management team a b c business wire seismic micro technology announces strategic investment from technology crossover ventures and jmi equity may 30 2007 seismic micro technology welling report 2008 a b c seismic mirco technology about the company seismic micro technology locations biz journals seismic micro technology opens calgary office august 8 2008 seismic micro technology corporate timeline e & p magazine smt signs software agreement with india s oil and natural gas corporation january 13 2009 business wire seismic micro technology appoints arshad matin to chief executive officer july 23 2007 oil and gas eurasia new interpretation software helps avoid dry holes february 2009 rigzone seismic ventures taps smt kingdom s modeling tech february 3 2009 seismic micro technology ceo letter 2008 a b rig zone smt s software grant provides training for geoscientists entering industry march 25 2009 imperial college imperial college receives 1.5 million grant from seismic micro technology august 31 2001 biz journals seismic micro technology donates software to uh november 3 2006 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seismic micro technology & oldid 732615641 categories software industry navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 august 2016 at 03 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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