Reservoir Services

The escalating global demand for energy resources and the increasing difficulty of expanding exploration into frontier areas leaves E&P companies with the challenge of extracting more hydrocarbons from existing reservoirs and improving production economics from unconventional reservoirs. In addition, the industry is losing many experienced geoscientists to retirement, leaving fewer resources to get the job done.

Leveraging GX Technology's leading data processing expertise, ION provides a broad range of Reservoir Solutions services to help E&P companies reduce drilling risk, maximize productivity, and control costs:

• Geologic field studies - to determine the most economical ways to spend your exploration dollars to achieve maximum reservoir insight
• AVO and inversion - to predict rock properties, including wavelet-based approaches that overcome the limitations of traditional AVO and extend applications of the technique to harder rocks, deeper horizons, thinly-bedded or fractured reservoirs, and areas with low signal-to-noise ratios
• Pore pressure prediction - to help with risk assessment and reduction, enabling you to plan and invest exploration dollars wisely and safely
• VSP planning, processing and interpretation - to improve vertical resolution of seismic data around a well, identify multiples on marine data, delineate faults, and improve subsalt velocity models
• Feasibility studies - upfront studies to determine such things as the value of c-wave before acquisition begins, or the most valuable attributes for reservoir identification
• Complete interpretations - including field visits for geologic and reservoir context, seismic survey planning, interpretation, well locations selection, and reservoir modeling
• Full-wave interpretation and reservoir characterization - to take advantage of all the information that recorded shear-wave or c-wave data can provide, including:
  • Lithology prediction - to determine lithology types and help with reservoir identification and boundary locations to reduce risk and optimize well planning
  • Fracture detection - to identify areas with favorable fracture densities and orientations and to improve drilling success ratios in unconventional reservoirs
  • Fluid identification - using pre-stack and post-stack joint inversion techniques, to calculate important attributes such as acoustic impedance, shear impedance, and elastic impedance that can be used, along with reservoir attributes, to calculate fluid bearing properties of reservoirs