EGI offers Corporate Associate members a competitive advantage in a highly competitive industry with our diverse staff of expert geoscientists, engineering researchers and innovative technical staff.
EGI scientists collaborate with colleagues across academic, industry and government organizations around the world and have conducted research in over 70 countries to discover and improve scientific innovation and applied technologies.
EGI’s Corporate Associate members gain access to over $850 million of regional and thematic research for only a fraction of their investment.
The combined expertise of EGI scientists collaborating with specialist from industry, governmental agencies, and academia creates a uniquely robust venue to solve questions from the global and basin exploration scales right into the nanoscale environments affecting production. The formation, in-filling, deformation, architecture, and tectonic setting of sedimentary basins have significant bearings on the formation, migration, entrapment, and preservation of hydrocarbons. With the growth of unconventional hydrocarbon resources in tight reservoirs as well as geothermal systems, the importance of fracture analysis has been amplified.
The EGI Geochemistry laboratory provides comprehensive analyses for petroleum systems evaluation, focusing on specialized analysis and integrated interpretation to understand hydrocarbon phase and charge history. We provide customized gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis as well as HAWK™ pyrolysis for source rock assessment. Our experts combine petroleum biomarker data and sequence stratigraphy to determine source rock facies and depositional environments. EGI has a library of oils and source rocks for major petroleum provinces in North America, South America, the Caspian region, and East Africa for comparative analysis.
Recognizing the interdependency of geologic and engineering disciplines,
geomechanics bridges classical geoscience and petroleum engineering by
acknowledging that all facets of reservoir exploitation, from exploration
through abandonment can be improved by evaluating in-situ stresses and
deformation and explicitly coupled fluid flow. EGI’s geomechanical expertise
provides members with services and potential applications for exploration,
well construction, and production and reservoir management.
The EGI VizLab is an immersive interpretation facility with full 3D stereo
on a 14’ x 6’ screen with 288 GB RAM and 12 CPUs capable of managing,
displaying and interactively interpreting extremely large, fully
integrated (well and seismic) datasets from basin scale to detailed prospect
and reservoir analysis. EGI seismic experts will collaboratively work with
your team in-house or use real time remote visualization via HP RGS.
Geospatial data is crucial for exploration and development success. EGI
has the experience and expertise in geospatial data acquisition, data
integration, geospatial database development, data analysis, and modeling to
help you meet your exploration and development goals.
The foundation of EGI’s Chronostratigraphy capability is based on the
use and integration of composite standards and graphic correlation. Our
worldwide paleo-database developed over a span of 40 years, first by
BP-Amoco and now by EGI biostratigraphers.
Over 32,000 stratigraphic datums (tops and bases) from thousands of well and outcrop sections are represented in the multi-million-dollar database. They are calibrated to the latest geologic time scale (GTS 2012) and provide EGI’s Corporate Associate members with global capabilities for absolute age dating. The absolute age calibration provides high-resolution stratigraphic correlations critical for successful integrative E&P studies, including sequence stratigraphy, depositional reconstructions, basin modeling and stratigraphic trap definition.
Research & Analytical Services
Integration of existing data from multiple biostratigraphic reports, often with disparate age conclusions, improving the value of existing data.
Numerical data such as rock accumulation rate and hiatus duration enhance basin modeling confidence.
Exporting chronostratigraphic interpretation of wells with the respective lines of correlation (LOC’s) to overlay on the seismic data allows for direction integration and trap definition.
The compositional variability and heterogeneity of shales represents
substantial challenges in evaluating their potential to viably produce oil
and gas. Assessment and understanding of the microtectonic/petrofabric
(microstructural) history in combination with micro- to nano-scale
porosity, permeability and mineralogical controls, is invaluable in
improving our ability to locate, trace and supply shale gas and oil more
effectively in the future.
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