ION Geophysical Corporation announced an aggressive cost reduction initiative as part of an overall plan to align operating expenses with business conditions and recent declines in the current commodity price environment for crude oil and natural gas. The Company believes this cost reduction program will more appropriately scale its operations to the current commodity price environment.

The Company's business is a scalable, asset light business with the flexibility to expand and contract in response to changing market conditions. The Company is adopting the aggressive cost reduction measures to reduce expenses to more closely align with the decreases in revenue experienced in the first half of the year.

The Company's ability to rapidly decrease expenses is a key part of the flexible, asset light strategy employed by the business and enables the Company to more effectively manage fluctuations in revenues like those experienced in the first half of 2015. The Company remains rapidly scalable to respond to changes in revenues. When market conditions improve, the Company will be well positioned to efficiently grow to meet demand.

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