GEOLOGIC CONSULTING
20+ years of Oil & Gas experience:
Any scope: conventional, unconventional, or both; horizontal, directional, or vertical
Any stage: exploration, appraisal, delineation, development, to enhanced recovery
Any scale: basins and petroleum systems to formation, play, prospect, and wellbore
Focused on the Mid-continent:
New plays, prospects, in-fills, and step-outs
Vertical, directional, and horizontal wellbores
Shallow, behind-pipe, and bypassed pay evaluation
Organic mudstones, tight sands, hybrid, CBM, and conventional traps
Structural and stratigraphic concepts
Transferrable experience to any U.S. domestic basin.
Contract retainer options available
Asset Acquisitions & Divestitures
Proven track record of fair-value analysis of large asset acquisition projects.
Recent success with multiple, simultaneous asset bid awards totaling over $750 million
Unconventional play assessments over multiple counties
Identification and mapping of unrealized unconventional, conventional, and EOR upside potential
Asset development strategy, spacing/targeting, and well planning
Experience in 40+ accelerated data room evaluations
Play Mapping and Evaluation
Play high-grading based on mapping of critical play elements.
Geologic mapping and play fairway identification
Quickly narrow down unconventional and conventional "sweet spots"
Comprehensive appraisal, delineation, and development strategies and planning
Asset valuation, acquisitions, divestitures, and monetization strategies
Horizontal & Vertical Geologic Operations
Geologic operations planning, execution, and quality control
Supervision of coring, advanced wireline logging, mud logging, and gas sampling
Vertical and lateral wellbore planning, operations, and geosteering
Behind Pipe Evaluation & Log Analysis
Identify and evaluate overlooked pay for recompletion opportunities
Open-hole wireline log analysis to calculate porosity, saturations, and volumetrics
Development Optimization
Fine-tune your field development plan, increase production, improve efficiency, and save money.
Determine ideal targeting, spacing, and staggering.
Prioritize refrac opportunities.
Identify and high-grade overlooked behind pipe and shallow upside potential.
Characterize zones for produced fluids injection.
Geohazard Mitigation
Identify, characterize, and plan for catastrophic geologic drilling hazards.
H2S, shallow gas, depleted zones, overpressure, and others.
Basin Experience:
Mid-Continent
Anadarko Basin / Shelf
Arkoma Basin
Cherokee Shelf
Central Kansas Uplift
Hugoton Embayment
Forest City Basin
Ouachita Overthrust
Ardmore / Marietta basins
Bend Arch / Fort Worth Basin
Gulf Coast
East Texas Basin/Shelby Trough
Sabine Arch/Northwest Louisiana Salt Basin
South Texas
Maverick Basin
Gulf of Mexico Shelf
Gulf of Mexico Subsalt/Deepwater
Western U.S.
Delaware Basin
Powder River Basin
Denver-Julesburg Basin
Williston Basin
San Juan Basin
Green River Basin
Eastern U.S.
Rome Trough
Rough Creek Graben
Illinois Basin
Central Appalachian
Northern Appalachian
Recent Projects:
Virtual data room play assessments for asset acquisitions: Anadarko Basin/Shelf (STACK, SCOOP, MERGE), Arkoma Basin, East Texas, Haynesville Shale, Marcellus Shale, South Texas Eagle Ford, Tertiary Gulf Coast, San Juan Basin, and Fort Worth Basin.
Subsurface mapping, petrophysical evaluation, and resource assessment of the Bossier and Haynesville shale formations for a client in the Shelby Trough, East Texas.
Subsurface assessment and co-development optimization plan of the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale for royalty owners, Webb County, Texas.
Consulted on prospect potential for conventional sands in Bee County, Texas.
Evaluated uphole, behind-pipe pay in P&A candidate wells for recompletion potential in Anadarko Basin.
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Logo courtesy of Jonathan Curtis, Assembly Lion, Inc., Edmond, OK.