Exploration
Conventional and Unconventional:
- Source Rock: characterization, thermal maturity, organic facies, well log integration
- Correlations: oil-oil, oil-SR (facies), gas-oil-SR, dilutants (H2S, CO2, etc.)
- Basin Modeling (1-, 2-, 3-, 4-D)
- Seal specialists (top and bottom), migration pathways, paleotraps, insitu vs. migrated hydrocarbons
- Mentoring
- Legacy database building/maintenance
- GIS
- Hero well/field analysis
- Data room evaluation
- Prospect Generation: data room, prospect fairs, integrated risk analysis
- Leasing Strategies
- Country Entry/Exit
- Risk: dilutants, charge, igneous
- Paleotraps: identification, quantification, core expertise
- Surface Geochemistry: land and sea
- Fluid Inclusions: FIS, microthermometry, cathodoluminescence gas and oil content analysis
Development / Drilling
Facilities Design:
- Water management and disposal
- Completions
- Optimize frac design
- Water management
- Inter-well communication
- Optimize spacing
Hydrocarbon:
- Pay allocation
- Compartmentalization (optimize well placement)
- Depletion analysis
- Flow assurance: proper diagnosis (wax, asphaltene, adamantanes, scale emulsions)
- Risks (corrosion, souring)
- Movability (vs. log inference)
- Secondary alteration (mixing, biodegradation, phase, depletion monitoring)
- GOR predictions (fluids, FIS)
- Transport (rail, pipeline, truck)
- Hazmat/dangerous goods
- Drilling: wellsite mass spec, sampling, protocols
- Water: management, treatment, enhanced value (e.g., lithium)
- Refinery/pipeline feedstock
- Knowledge gap/mentoring: team review, coach
- Legacy database creation and maintenance (create entrance value)
Minerals / Mining
- Legacy databases
- Emissions (VOC vs. PAH, nuisance smell, H2S, etc.)
- GIS
- Aggregate grades
- Reverse Engineering (e.g., road asphalt)
- Bench-scale simulations (manufacture process simulation)
- Volumetrics (e.g., Leapfrog ore bodies)
- Feedstock blending
- Processing
- Runoff
- Corrosion
Forensics:
- Oil spill/remediation
- Sludge
- Stray gas (e.g., bradenhead monitoring)
- Expert witness
- Produced water
- Emissions (VOR, H2S, PAH, etc.)
- GIS
- Chemometrics
- Legacy database
- Mercury
- HSE support