Industries / Energy & Oil and Gas
Two miles down, no camera crew.
Downhole tools, frac systems, pipeline integrity, and energy transition technology. We animate what the wellsite cannot show you.
Energy is where this studio grew up
We are a Houston studio, so energy work found us early and never stopped. Downhole tools, completions, frac fluid delivery, pipeline integrity, remote power, carbon capture, geothermal.
The common thread is that none of it can be filmed. The tool operates below ten thousand feet. The process runs inside pressurized steel. The facility is a year from being built.
That constraint is exactly what 3D animation removes. See the oil and gas animation primer for how we approach it, or the rest of our industrial and technical animation work.
Selected energy work
Four pieces across the sector: frac fluid delivery for SLB, a completions tool for NOV, an investor roadshow for a geothermal developer, and remote power generation for a pressure pumper.
SLB Frac Fluid Delivery 3D Animation
NOV Bulldog Frac System Animation
Fervo Energy Investor Roadshow Video
Liberty Energy Remote Power Generation
What energy teams ask us for
Downhole and completions
Tools operating in an environment no camera reaches. Cutaway animation is the only way a buyer sees the mechanism actuate.
See SLB pipeline integrity and the NOV flowback flythrough.
Energy transition and cleantech
Geothermal, carbon capture, low-carbon fuels, and remote power. Newer technology, less familiar to the audience, and therefore more dependent on visual explanation.
See Certarus low-carbon energy and Solugen.
Investor and roadshow video
Technology explanation for an audience that is financial, not technical. Different edit, different pacing, different level of detail.
See what an IPO roadshow video takes and the Fervo Energy roadshow piece.
Trade show and conference media
OTC, URTeC, CERAWeek. Booth loops that read across a crowded floor without sound. More on trade show media.
Energy teams we have built for
Operators, service companies, and energy transition developers. Most have hired us more than once. (See the work.)
Real reviews from real clients
Pulled live from our public review feed. No staged quotes, no anonymous filler.
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Energy animation questions
Always. Nearly every downhole and completions project we take is covered by an NDA signed before any technical material changes hands. It is routine, not an exception.
Yes, and it is common. Pre-commercial animation from CAD is how new energy technology gets shown to operators, partners, and investors before first field trial.
Yes. The audience is different, so the edit is different. Less mechanism, more market and economics. The IPO roadshow breakdown covers what changes.
3D runs four to eight weeks depending on scope. Tell us the conference date at first contact and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable. We have never missed a delivery date, which partly means we decline work we cannot land.
Both. Geothermal, carbon capture, low-carbon fuels, and remote power are a growing share of our work. Cleantech explainer videos for investors covers that side specifically.
Usually, with different cuts. We build the full sequence once and edit shorter versions for booth loops, sales calls, and investor decks. That is cheaper than three separate productions and keeps the visual language consistent.
