# Viridien

> Viridien is the French advanced-technology company formerly known as CGG. Its business combines subsurface imaging, licensed Earth-data libraries, seismic and monitoring equipment, satellite mapping, geoscience software, and high-performance computing services. Oil and gas remains its largest customer base, but the same mathematics, data and compute stack is being sold into carbon storage, geothermal, minerals, infrastructure, defense, materials science and life-science simulation.

- **Founded:** 1931
- **Headquarters:** Massy, France
- **Founders:** Conrad Schlumberger (Founder and original vice-chairman)
- **Team size:** Approximately 3,200 employees worldwide as of July 2026.
- **Products:** Subsurface Imaging, Earth Data, GeoVerse, Geovation, Geotools
- **Notable:** Built a corporate history dating to 1931 and rebranded from CGG to Viridien in 2024., Completed the strategic move away from capital-intensive contract data acquisition toward an asset-light technology, data and equipment portfolio., Reached 690 petaflops of computing power in 2025, up 33% year over year.

## Products & services

- **Subsurface Imaging** — Seismic processing and imaging services, including full-waveform inversion, ocean-bottom-node imaging, distributed acoustic sensing and 4D reservoir monitoring.
- **Earth Data** — Licensable multi-client seismic, geological, gravity, magnetic, satellite and environmental datasets delivered through the GeoStore and cloud channels.
- **GeoVerse** — Cloud-accessible geological data and analytics applications built around standardized public and proprietary Earth datasets.
- **Geovation** — Viridien's seismic data processing and imaging software, developed from more than four decades of geophysical software work.
- **Geotools** — Desktop and cloud tools for magnetotelluric analysis, modeling and 3D inversion.
- **HPC & Cloud Solutions** — Specialized high-performance computing, cloud and platform services, including Outcome-as-a-Service for simulation and modeling workloads.
- **Data Transformation** — AI-assisted classification, validation, contextualization and ingestion of subsurface information into OSDU and other open data platforms.
- **Satellite Mapping** — Optical and radar imagery, elevation models, geological mapping, seep detection, emissions monitoring and offshore environmental intelligence.
- **Sensing & Monitoring** — Sercel seismic equipment and solutions for geotechnical, structural, environmental, marine and defense monitoring.
- **Energy-transition and mineral services** — Screening, imaging, characterization and monitoring for carbon storage, geothermal resources and mineral exploration.

## Achievements

- Built a corporate history dating to 1931 and rebranded from CGG to Viridien in 2024.
- Completed the strategic move away from capital-intensive contract data acquisition toward an asset-light technology, data and equipment portfolio.
- Reached 690 petaflops of computing power in 2025, up 33% year over year.
- Reported $1.165 billion of segment revenue and $551 million of adjusted segment EBITDAs in 2025.
- Generated $107 million of net cash flow in 2025 and reduced net debt excluding IFRS 16 to $753 million.
- Reported geoscience revenue of $444 million and Earth Data revenue of $406 million in 2025.
- Reduced absolute carbon emissions by almost 80% from 2019 levels by early 2026, according to the company.
- Operates one of the longest-established commercial satellite-mapping teams in Europe, with roots in NPA Satellite Mapping from 1972.
- Applied distributed acoustic sensing across more than 50 two-, three- and four-dimensional projects.
- Reimaged 8,468 square kilometers of 3D seismic data in Brazil's southern Santos Basin in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Signed a strategic multi-client partnership with PETROSEN to enhance seismic data and assess Senegal's petroleum potential.
- **2026-07** — Reported Q2 segment revenue of $232 million, H1 net cash flow of $32 million and net debt excluding IFRS 16 of $692 million; maintained its $100 million full-year cash-flow objective.
- **2026-06** — Henning Berg became chief executive officer and director; Sophie Zurquiyah remained non-executive chair.
- **2026-06** — Published a case study in which ELEM Biotech cut virtual-heart simulation time by 40% using Viridien HPC & Cloud Solutions.
- **2026-02** — Announced a strategic initiative with NVIDIA to advance high-performance seismic imaging workflows.
- **2026-02** — Reported 2025 segment revenue of $1.165 billion, adjusted segment EBITDAs of $551 million and net cash flow of $107 million.
- **2025-02** — Partnered with Matnex to scale AI-powered materials discovery using Viridien computing infrastructure.

## Links

- Website: https://www.viridiengroup.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weareviridien/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/weareviridien
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@weareviridien
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weareviridien/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Viridien

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Last updated: 2026-08-14