About BIODENTIFY

The Company

Biodentify was founded as a spin-out from Dutch R&D group TNO in December 2014. TNO is a 3000+ R&D organization and the largest microbiological research group in the Netherlands. Biodentify is owned and managed by 3 partners with extensive entrepreneurial experience bringing innovative new technologies to market in the Oil & Gas industry. The company had developed a novel and patented technology, predicting prospectivity before drilling, with > 70% accuracy. From the beginning they achieved these results based on microbiological DNA analysis of shallow soil or seabed samples through unique machine learning models.

Executive leadership:

Gerard de Jager (CEO),
Jonathan Zwaan (Commercial Director),
Chris te Stroet (Technology Director).

First shale client

Mature modeling AI-algorithms develop parallelization.

First offshore client

Maturing feature selection AI-algorithms, and building up offshore seabed sample database.

First publication and tradeshow attendance

URTeC Austin: 2671117 Predicting Sweet Spots in Shale Plays by DNA Fingerprinting and Machine Learning.

Awarded EU grant

Our project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation – SME Instrument programme under grant agreement No 829284.

Expand operations & marketing

We executed fieldwork in three pilot ‘proof of technology’ projects, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 grant. A conventional and unconventional project in the Vaca Muerta area of Argentina, and an unconventional project in the Eagle Ford and the Bakken Shale areas of the USA and a final project in the North Sea.

Published pilot results

We published the exciting results of two out of three pilot projects. A conventional and unconventional project in the Vaca Muerta area of Argentina, and an unconventional project in the Eagle Ford and the Bakken Shale areas of the USA. Read the full pilot project results.

About BIODENTIFY

The Company

Executive leadership:

First shale client

First offshore client

First publication and tradeshow attendance

Awarded EU grant

Expand operations & marketing

Published pilot results

Our Management Team

Gerard de Jager

Jonathan Zwaan

Chris te Stroet

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