Services-Upstream Petroleum-Geology

The first step in petroleum exploration is to build an integrated team with geologists on the top of everything. For doing so, we provide the following disciplines for our clients:

  • Sedimentary Basin Analysis

  • Structural Geology

  • Stratigraphy

  • Petroleum Geology

 

 

Sedimentary Basin Analysis

We utilize sophisticated software packages (PetroMod and Dionysus) to model the history of sedimentary basins.

                                     Example of a deep water sedimentary basin

 

                                                                       Burial history

                                                                   Basin modeling

Structural Geology

Our experts in structural geology and stratigraphy, help our clients to characterize the evolution of basins, highlighting architecture, potential traps and migration pathways, depositional settings and chronology.

                                                       Folded structure

 

                                                    Structural discontinuities

                                   Seal capacity/compartmentalization risk for fault blocks

              Fracture sets developed over a large anticline in the Zagros Mountains, southern Iran

              Mechanical stratigraphic controlled variations in fracture intensity

                                       Discrete Fracture Network (DFN)

 

Stratigraphy

Our experts in structural geology and stratigraphy, help our clients to characterize the evolution of basins, highlighting architecture, potential traps and migration pathways, depositional settings and chronology.

We provide a wide range of methods to establish sequence stratigraphy. As an example, biostratigraphy uses micro- and nano-fossils of organisms and pollen to establish the age of sediments and correlate between sequences of rocks.

                                     Sequence Stratigraphy

                        A classic dolomite reservoir

 

 

                                  Timelines vs. facies boundaries in seismic

                                 (Lithostratigraphy vs. Chronostratigraphy)

 

Petroleum Geology

Our professionals study the origin, generation, migration, accumulation, preservation, exploration and exploitation of oil and gas. We explore the entire petroleum system from source rocks, through oil and gas in reservoirs and traps.

The integration puts different pieces of puzzle together and an earth model will be generated which defines the full geologic characteristics of a basin, play, potential prospect and reservoir.