More data than any extractive industry in history — and a dry hole rate that has not moved in decades.

The industry has drilled more than five million wells since Titusville, 1859. It images the subsurface to five kilometres at metre-scale resolution and runs reservoir simulations of extraordinary complexity. The problem was never a shortage of data. It is that no one has read all of it as a single answer.

The subsurface does not lie. PETRA reads every measurement as one field and returns a single answer.

Seismic, logs, pressure, fluids — PETRA holds them to each other until they agree on one description of the formation, then puts a number on how well they agree. You are handed an answer, a score, and the full record behind both.

One survey. One answer. Watch the data converge on the formation.

Here is PETRA on a single prospect in a deepwater frontier basin. The same survey every operator has — a 3-D seismic volume, two appraisal-well log suites, pressure points, fluid samples. Toggle each source to see how it constrains the answer. Alone, none of them is decisive. Together, they close on one formation.

One score tells you whether the rock holds together.

PETRA does not just describe Meridian-3 — it scores how completely the evidence agrees. Three questions every prospect must answer. When all three resolve, the data has converged on a real target.

The same engine that confirms a prospect can name exactly why another one fails.

A clean answer is only half the value. PETRA also recognizes the ways a prospect cannot hold together — and names the failure before any capital is committed.

Two instruments. One answer beneath both.

PETRA ships as two composable modules — one for the exploration decision, one for the producing field — returning the same kind of derived, scored answer at every stage of an asset's life.

Built for the people who carry subsurface risk.

A petroleum scientist's life of subsurface work — carried to market by operators who scale it.

PETRA is grounded in real subsurface science and run by a team that has taken deep technology into enterprises and national institutions before.

Chief Executive Officer · the scientist behind PETRA

Dr. J. Dayakar Rao

Thirty-eight years of reading the rock — now encoded into the platform.

A petroleum geologist whose career spans national and international exploration and production. Eighteen years with India's ONGC — including its Geo-Data Processing & Interpretation Centre (GEOPIC), Dehradun — followed by eighteen years across the national oil companies of the Middle East: BAPCO in Bahrain, Qatar Petroleum, and Kuwait Oil Company. He earned his PhD in Geology from Osmania University while serving at ONGC, on top of an MSc and a BSc (Hons) in Geology. At KOC he served as Focal Point for Shale Gas Studies alongside Core Lab Houston, establishing a significant unconventional resource potential and authoring some eight international papers on shale gas and tight carbonates. His specializations — applied geology and geophysics for exploration, field development and production geology, shale oil and gas assessment, and tight, naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs — are the lifetime of subsurface judgment that PETRA's outcome model is built to carry.

Selected publications · AAPG · SPE / URTeC

2018A comparison of Najmah kerogen adsorption and desorption gas characteristics with North American source rocks — AAPG, Salt Lake City.

2017Characterization of deep tight carbonate gas plays with an integrated interpretation — North Kuwait — AAPG, Houston.

2015Integrated reservoir characterization of a deep, kerogen-rich unconventional play, North Kuwait — SPE / URTeC.

1983Sandbody geometries inferred from 3-D seismic attributes, Western Onshore India — SPE, Houston.

ONGCGEOPICBAPCOQatar PetroleumKuwait Oil Co.PhD GeologyAAPG · SPE

Head of Solutions Engineering

Raghavan Madabhushi

Where the science meets the enterprise.

A technology executive with more than twenty years carrying enterprise solutions from proof to production. He has built and led enterprise sales and solutions engineering across telecommunications, financial services, healthcare and high technology — and now energy. Most recently EVP at Mobius by Gaian, leading enterprise AI adoption, executive customer engagement and strategic partnerships; previously SVP, Emerging Markets & New Accounts at Cambridge Technology, driving global account expansion and digital-transformation delivery.

Enterprise SalesSolutions EngineeringTelecomFinancial ServicesHealthcareEnergy

Chief Operating Officer

Ashwini Kotaru

The operator who makes it real.

A first-principles operator who runs operations and commercial strategy across the venture's United States, Dubai, Singapore and India footprint, anchored by the Rasa Foundation. She scaled the group from media-tech into a multi-sector venture, owns go-to-market and the investor narrative, and represents the platform to enterprises, governments and international institutions. A published researcher on AI governance (The Coordination Rent Cycle, SSRN), a speaker in the UNESCO Information-for-All Program, and a Wharton Global C-Suite alumna — with a builder's range that extends to a USDA-certified organic farm, a sustainable design-and-construction firm, a California general contractor's license, and a county early-childhood-education council seat.

OperationsGo-to-MarketStrategic PartnershipsAI GovernanceWharton C-SuiteUNESCO IFAP