Fotech is a UK-based developer of monitoring and surveillance solutions for oil and gas wells and pipelines. The company has developed optical fibre-based acoustic monitoring systems for detecting pipeline leaks and other faults.
Fotech was founded in 2006 by Douglas Gibson and Alan Piesse to commercialise Distributed Acoustic Sensing, which allows a standard optical fibre cable to act as a microphone over significant distances, using acoustic data and sophisticated software to identify leaks and other problems in pipelines and wells.
"We are delighted to have secured funding from SEP. The oil and gas industry has seen great benefits from the use of fibre optic sensing technologies in the well bore. Fotech is creating new and innovative solutions which will deliver even better understanding of the entire upstream, midstream and downstream processes."
Douglas Gibson, CEO