Does Size Matter – Just how big does a Baseline Seismic Survey have to be?
An Australian E&P company, operating in the carbon storage space, needed to carry out a detailed 3D seismic survey prior to injection, as a baseline for future 4D monitoring of the CO2 plume. Specifically, the customer needed to assess how big the plume could be for an injection of 20Mt of CO2, and which area needed to be surveyed to capture the potential plume development.
Building a Carbon Storage Atlas
A European National Authority, under pressure to evaluate options for carbon storage wanted to create a Carbon Storage Atlas to outline options and meet Net Zero expectations. Existing assessments and knowledge base are held by national surveys and universities. While these have a strong technical and scientific base, bringing the knowledge together for appropriate access presents significant challenges.
From Spreadsheet to Corporate Database
A USA based Supermajor was evaluating pore space for carbon storage onshore, with existing CO2 pipelines, with a view to managing the high levels of CO2 being produced by heavy industry in the area. The project evaluations were being carried out with spreadsheets, which were easily available and simple to create, but very quickly became complex and unmanageable.
Oil vs Gas: Probabilistic Phase Prediction
An International E&P Company operating in a tertiary basin where gas is the norm and oil the exception was exploring for oil. In this example, relatively small amounts of oil would be worth developing, compared to the need for a huge gas discovery for the same commercial results.
Global Prospect Sharing
An International E&P Company with varied prospects globally needed access to data on prospects by widespread team members – local exploration team in South America, specialists and reviewers in Europe and HQ decision-makers in the US. Prospect evaluations were being stored in local databases for legal reasons, with no external access by stakeholders.
Is Prospect Risk the same as Well Risk?
An E&P Company operating in the North Sea realised that prospect risk and success volume ranges were not being consistently predicted. This aligned with an overall industry trend wherein calibrating forecasts and results was becoming increasing difficult. Their assessment concluded that in many cases, the chance of success for the entire prospect segment, e.g. a fault block, was being taken as the chance of success for the well targeting that segment. The company was attempting to address this complexity with a tedious spreadsheet-based workaround, disconnected from their standard prospect assessments.
Risk and Uncertainty for Phase Prediction
APGCE Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2024 – Martin Neumaier (ArianeLogiX), Lukasz Krawczynski (Top Down Petroleum Systems)
Geological H2 systems – Prospect assessment
AAPG ICE Conference, Muscat, 2024 – Martin Neumaier (ArianeLogiX), Emmanuel Masini (Mantle 8), Suzon Jammes (Mantle 8), Mathieu Ducoux (Mantle 8) Julia Gomez-Romeu (Mantle 8) and Rodolphe Lescoutre (Mantle 8)
Carbon Storage Volume Assessment Screening Tool and Methodologies
AAPG CCUS Conference, Houston, 2024 – Martin Neumaier (ArianeLogiX), Kirsten Bannister (ExxonMobil), Matthias Imhof (ExxonMobil)