About CASGEO
Zhongke Geophysical Exploration Technology Development Co., Ltd. (CASGEO) was established in August 2026. We are a high-tech company specializing in deep-sea geophysical exploration equipment. Our flagship product is the self-developed four-component deep-water intelligent node, the Mobula node, which delivers equipment and integrated solutions to serve the global deep-sea exploration market.
Company Profile
Centered on deep-sea seabed seismic data acquisition, the company develops intelligent exploration nodes featuring cable-free deployment, self-localization, seabed stationing, and automatic recovery. The goal is to reduce reliance on remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of deep-sea operations.
The core team is drawn from leading research institutions including the University of Cambridge, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Nanyang Technological University. Members bring deep expertise in marine geophysical exploration, underwater acoustic navigation, and deep-sea sensors, successfully completing prototype sea trials in 2023.
Business Lines
Manufacturing, sales, and leasing of the deep-sea four-component intelligent node (Mobula Node)
Full-chain intelligent exploration technology services for deep-sea oil and gas resources
R&D, sales, and technical services for deep-sea seismic exploration AI agent software
Milestones
From prototype sea trials to large-scale operations, Mobula's node engineering evolves step by step.
2023
Prototype Sea Trial Validation
Completed deep-sea sea trials for 10 prototype units, with key core technical risks validated and mitigated.
2026
Company Founded · Engineering Prototype
The company was officially established; the second-generation Mobula node engineering prototype completed lab testing and entered sea-trial validation; the first engineering prototype will be released in Q4 2026.
2027
100 Engineering Units
Deploy 100 engineering units in Q3 2027, complete core-metric testing and multi-condition sea trials, and establish a mass-production line system.
2028
1,000 Operational Units
Deploy 1,000 operational units in Q3 2028, complete full-condition testing and upstream/downstream supply chain integration, and achieve intelligent mass production.
2029
Industry-Advanced Level
Industry-leading product performance; set technical standards for industry equipment and drive global collaboration.
Core Team
A complete technology stack covering equipment design, flight control, sensor development, data processing, and software systems.
ChuanChuan Lü
Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, with extensive leadership in marine seismology and marine geophysics research.
- —Managed the UK LeNS large-scale seismic node facility, overseeing a pool of nearly 2,200 node units.
- —Deep expertise in R&D and application of ocean-bottom seismometers, with multiple patents on nodes and real-time data transmission.
- —Fostered long-term collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in marine seismology.
Haixin Feng
Deputy General Manager
PhD and Postdoctoral Fellow in Solid Geophysics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Senior Engineer, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- —Former Chief Engineer and Deputy Technical Commander, leading multiple large-scale system development projects
- —Deep expertise in seismic data denoising, wavefield separation, and weak-signal detection
- —Full-process engineering expertise—from system design and integration testing to field trials
Yanlong Niu
Chief Scientist
PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore; Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University specializing in geophysical inversion and AI-driven monitoring.
- —Developed surface-wave inversion, time-lapse monitoring, and DAS methods to identify subsurface property changes.
- —Built physics-constrained machine learning pipelines for rapid, automated velocity-profile inversion
- —Performs multi-modal data fusion and develops AI-driven site characterization databases.
Backed by academic advisors and top consultants, including professors from the University of Cambridge. Our core team has known each other since the 2018 Marine Geophysics Symposium and has collaborated for years on joint projects at the University of Cambridge, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Nanyang Technological University—covering the full hardware, software, and algorithm stack.
Global Collaboration Labs
Collaborates with the University of Cambridge, Nanyang Technological University, and Pusan National University to drive breakthroughs in core deep-sea equipment technologies.
Cambridge University Collaborative Laboratory
Leveraging the technical legacy of the Bullard Laboratory, our team researches pressure-resistant material structures and damping mechanisms for underwater robots in high-power environments, while iterating geophysical inversion algorithms.
Nanyang Technological University Collaborative Laboratory
Leveraging the unique dynamics of complex tropical water environments, our lab performs anti-interference hydrodynamic testing for underwater vehicles, develops low-power edge-computing architectures, and enables intelligent autonomous decision-making and swarm coordination for underwater systems.
Pusan National University collaboration Laboratory
Leveraging strengths in ocean engineering and materials science, the lab validates the reliability of wide-area deployment for cable-free flight nodes and supports equipment reliability research in extreme environments.