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Exploration Philosophy

Exploration
  • Appraisal & development plan
  • Prospect drilling, prospect risking & maturation
  • Leads mapping & risking opportunity portfolio
  • Play elements mapping; environment of deposition; HC charge evaluation
  • Petroleum systems analysis; basin depositional history; basin origin & thermal history
  • Source-to-sink study; uplift-erosion-provenance; tectonics & paleogeography; regional stratigraphy

Integrated Approach
Exploration
  • reservoir modeling
  • 2D & 3D seismic mapping & analysis; seal leakage & integrity; Rock physics, AVO & deterministic simultaneous inversion; volumetrics & risking
  • 2D & 3D leads seismic mapping; DHI analysis; volumetrics & risking
  • Seismic facies mapping; lithology prediction; AVO/DHI mapping; HC system modeling
  • 1D, 2D and 3D basin modeling; sequence stratigraphy; source rock characterization, hydrocarbon occurrence analysis and surface geochem surveys.
  • Tectonic domain mapping & crustal modeling; plate tectonics and structural evolution; timing of tectonic and depositional events; U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology; low temperature thermochronology