Northern North Sea:
1) Basin scale evaluation using structural modelling and burial histories,
constraining movement histories on different fault trends, evaluating
subsidence and reservoir development
2) Evaluation of structurally complex areas of a mature field, using fault
analysis and structural modelling to constrain fault interpretations,
evaluate compartmentalisation, and assist well planning
Witch Ground Graben/Moray Firth:
1) Fault analysis of a prospect identified problems with interpretation
of boundary fault system and potential lack of structural closure at one
end of the prospect
2) In a complex zone of fault linkage in a field, fault analysis followed
by seismic reappraisal was used to decipher separate fault trends, their
periods of movement and interaction
Central Graben:
1) QC of existing interpretation of two fields, evaluating salt tectonism
and providing structural model; specific risks addressed relating e.g.
to mapping of bounding faults and faults between fields and additional
prospects
2) Structural assessment of timing of different fault sets and fault seal
study in prospect area, is reservoir synrift and what is the impact for
fault seal risk
Southern North Sea:
1) Fault seal and structural study of prospects involving inverted faults,
using modelling techniques to evaluate movement history and palaeotopgraphic
dip changes (impacting potential migration routes) and fault seal analysis
techniques in a high net to gross ratio reservoir
2) Structural modelling of inverted fault zone, using modelling to validate
interpretational geometries, and unravel structural history involving
extension, salt movement and inversion related folding
3) Integrated field study aimed at evaluating depth conversion, structure,
structural history, compartmentalisation, filling history, pressure history,
reservoir zonation, and volumetrics
Atlantic Margins (UK, Norway, Faeroes, Ireland):
1) Structural evaluation of frontier exploration acreage: several rift
episodes identified active at different times in different locations;
risk associated with uncertainties in seismic sequence age & structure
mapping assessed; implications for reservoir development, trap integrity
and migration pathways defined
2) Geodynamic modelling of key regional cross section: anomalous subsidence
identified; crustal scale modelling using gravity and seismic refraction
data used to resolve this
Irish Sea/Offshore SW UK:
1) Fault seal study of carbonate prospect modelled different facies juxtapositions
and risk of fault seal in each case; fault analysis identified problems
with intra prospect faults
2) Characterisation of small scale structures in Permo-Trias reservoir
from comparison of field and borehole image log datasets; tools developed
to predict fault distribution from this type of data
UK onshore:
Fault analysis of operator's structure map, questions raised about a proposed
well location and perceived degree of compartmentalisation within a field
Europe
France: Structural evaluation of main hydrocarbon basins
Italy: Analysis and quantification of fracturing in a carbonate
reservoir from core and borehole image logs, fracture and other porosity
evaluation and volumetric estimates
Netherlands:
1) Fault seal study of prospects using fault and fault seal analysis;
different methods of evaluation compared and contrasted, uncertainties
in stratigraphy modelled
2) Block scale structural interpretation evaluation: differences in degree
of deformation and geometry of separate prospects explained, fault mapping
problematic, alternatives given
Norway:
1) Fault seal study of compartmentalised field and surrounding prospects
assessed degree of compartmentalisation, identified migration pathways
and shadows, explained well failures and predicted column heights in areas
of additional prospectivity
2) Regional structural evaluation of part of the Norwegian Margin: seismic
interpretation and structural modelling used to constrain structural geometries,
unravel structural evolution and assess prospectivity
3) Structural evaluation of block scale area, examining structural style
and history of several prospects, QC of structure mapping, fault seal
study provided seal risk assessment and migration pathway analysis
Romania: Validation of interpretation in a license areas of the
Carpathian fold belt, using structural modelling and assessment of alternative
interpretations
Spain: Regional evaluation of prospectivity of NE Spain encompassing
three basins, using regional literature review, seismic interpretation,
burial history analysis and Landsat data
Middle East and
Africa
Algeria: Structural input to recognising major new oilfields
Angola: Validation of interpretations and structural evolution
in an area of salt raft tectonics: implications for palaeobathymetry and
Miocene depositional sequences addressed
Botswana: Evaluation of a major unexplored basin
Egypt: Investigation of fault zone properties, fault damage zones,
and relationships between different fault parameters, from field studies
in an area of outstanding exposure, field trips to Sinai, Gulf of Suez.
Egypt: Fracture analysis from image logs and integration with a regional tectonic model, studies in the Nile Delta, fault seal analysis in Western Desert prospects.
Namibia: Tectonic control on the
development of alluvial diamond deposits, evaluation of offshore seismic
data
Nigeria: Fault seal analysis of deeper water prospects, using fault
analysis and shale smear evaluations; structural modelling used to assess
uncertainty in stratigraphy
Oman: Regional study and prospect analysis of a deep basin containing
salt.
South Africa:
1) Structural analysis of the development of the Witwatersrand Basin and
development of new gold exploration models.
2) Structural analysis of seismic data, fault mapping and fault geometry
in the Vaal Reef gold mines.
Syria: Fractured carbonate reservoir study
Tunisia: Structural modelling of an inverted rift
Yemen: Seismic interpretation and structural evaluation
Zambia-DRC: Regional tectono-stratigraphic evaluation of the copper
belt Lufilian Arc for new exploration models
Asia/Australasia
Australia: New exploration models in a world class mining province
- Mt. Isa.
Bangladesh: Offshore geometry and hydrocarbon potential
Indonesia: Compilation of fault seal database from all producing
areas
New Zealand: Structural study of a shear zone hosted gold deposit
Pakistan: Regional and licence scale structural evaluation of prospectivity
of a complex area using plate reconstruction, structural modelling, field
work and analogue models
India: Structural studies in the offshore of SE India, Krishnar-Godavri
deltas; regional structural development of the Assam fold belt and the
foreland basin, NE India
Philippines: Seismic interpretation and structural evaluation
Thailand: Regional review, field scale structural evaluation and
fault seal analysis of a mature field using plate reconstruction, literature
review, fault analysis, seismic QC, and analysis of static and dynamic
fault seal using production data
Vietnam: Fault seal analysis and structure map QC of three prospects,
using fault analysis and fault seal analysis techniques, and modelling
of stratigraphic uncertainty
Americas
Colombia: Analysis of a structurally complex field in the Andean
fold belt and development of 3D reservoir model, using structural modelling,
analysis of core and log data, and field analogues
Brazil: Section restoration and
structural validation projects in several offshore basins
Falklands: Review of block scale seismic interpretation and structure
mapping, structural modelling used to evaluate likely presence/absence
of footwall prospects
West Indies: Review of structure and potential reservoir development
in a license area in a subduction related setting