CGG GeoConsulting has launched the Robertson New Ventures Suite, an integrated and digitally transformed family of exploration-focused geoscience tools. The databases that offer clients a competitive edge in global new ventures screening and frontier exploration.
New Ventures teams can make quicker and more effective decisions by using this unique product suite to interrogate one of the industry’s richest sources of geoscience data and knowledge. Whether licensing the whole suite or individual components, Exploration teams can access these integrated databases to better identify, understand, evaluate and de-risk emerging opportunities and plays so they can acquire the right acreage and increase their success rates.
Together with CGG’s library of over 650 Robertson Studies (Red Books), the Robertson New Ventures Suite complements CGG’s extensive multi-client offering that includes its global Seep Explorer product, comprehensive gravity and magnetics database, GeoSpec enhanced legacy data, integrated JumpStart™ geoscience packages and extensive high-end library of seismic data, all of which can be found @geostore.cgg.com.
Sophie Zurquiyah, CEO, CGG, said: “In today’s business environment, easy access to reliable, high-quality geoscience information is of paramount importance for time-pressured and resource-constrained new ventures and exploration teams. GeoConsulting has digitally transformed its Robertson geological multi-client library to help existing and new clients leverage the full value of its treasure trove of globally consistent data sets and analytical tools to inform and support their new ventures, screening and exploration programs.”
The Robertson New Ventures Suite is an integrated family of exploration-focused geoscience tools and databases that provide a competitive edge in global new ventures screening and frontier exploration. This unique offering reflects new ways to access, interrogate and consume one of the richest databases of subsurface geoscience in the industry.
As the benefits of digitalization become apparent across the E&P industry, we have taken the opportunity to digitally transform our geological library. The results is an integrated family of geoscience tools and databases that offer clients a competitive edge in global new ventures screening and frontier exploration.
The six core products of the Robertson New Ventures Suite are Basins & Plays, Geochemistry, Plate Kinematics, Predictions, Provenance and Analogues. Built on the trusted brands of Tellus, Frogi, Plate Wizard, Merlin+, ProvBase and ERGO, the updated products have been integrated and renamed as part of our GeoVerse™ digital transformation program that is providing a common architecture and taxonomy. The core products are supported by a library of over 650 Robertson Studies and complementary products including Seep Explorer, a comprehensive gravity and magnetics database, integrated JumpStart™ geoscience packages and our extensive library of seismic and other subsurface data available on the GeoStore™.
Besides the quantity and quality of the data, what makes the Robertson New Ventures Suite particularly powerful is its interoperability and integration that supports a broad range of exploration workflows. This allows Explorationists to easily interrogate one the industry’s richest sources of geoscience data to make quicker and better-informed decisions.
Exploration Workflow: De-risking Frontier Basins
If we take an example of a frontier area of current interest, the offshore portion of the Doukkala Basin in North West Morocco, we can see how the Robertson New Ventures Suite helps to de-risk exploration. The basin is underexplored with limited offshore wells, but onshore wells have found oil and gas in Cretaceous reservoirs charged by a probable Lower Jurassic source rock. So how can we fill the offshore data gap to make a well-informed exploration decision?
We begin with Robertson Plate Kinematics, which provides a deformable plate reconstruction model to correctly identify the paleo-location for the Doukkala Basin and place control data in their correct paleo-locations.
Robertson Predictions, a global paleogeographic / Earth systems modeling tool, is then used to evaluate whether the Lower Jurassic source rock is present offshore in the absence of well data and even assess its potential quality.
Using this data-constrained modeling platform enables the prediction of the deposition and preservation of source rock. The model shows high organic content and a high potential for organic matter preservation due to predicted seafloor conditions.
Quickly linking to the Robertson Geochemistry database provides support for this prediction with data samples from a deep sea drilling program well sitting at the deep offshore margin of the basin recording a total organic carbon (TOC) measurement of 2.8% for the Lower Jurassic. So we now have a high degree of confidence in the presence of our potential source rock.
We then move into Robertson Basins & Plays, a play fairway and petroleum systems database, to look at the context for the maturity of the source rock. With its consistent regional stratigraphic framework and depositional history, we are able to explore 1D basin modeling and verify that the Lower Jurassic is mature in the offshore part of the basin. In fact, the source kitchen is likely to extend beyond the nominal basin boundary into the deeper offshore as well.
To develop our understanding of reservoir risk we can develop a source-to-sink understanding of sediment supply, making use of the dynamic paleo-Earth systems data in Predictions and exploring uncertainty in sediment routing using the Robertson Provenance tool. Understanding potential reservoir volumes and geometries in frontier areas often relies on analogue data, and the comprehensive database in Robertson Analogues provides a basis for reservoir de-risking.
The full suite of multi-client products and databases is available through the Robertson GeoVerse™ Portal
Robertson Basins & Plays
Extensive play fairway and petroleum systems database. Robertson Basins and Plays supports faster decisions, giving you the competitive edge in licensing rounds.
Robertson Studies: Red Books
Become an instant expert. Choose from more than 500 global thematic, regional and licensing round reports.
Seep Explorer
Use offshore seeps to de-risk your prospects. NPA’s satellite derived offshore seeps database covers over 90% of all offshore sedimentary basins.
EV2
Get the edge in exploration. This innovative tool combines Robertson industry-leading geological knowledge with Wood Mackenzie’s unique commercial expertise.
TerraCube
Integrated well, legacy seismic and geological data in a workstation-ready package
Potential Fields
Leverage the world’s most comprehensive, privately-owned multi-client airborne, marine and land potential fields database. Evaluate frontier areas. Map structures. Reduce exploration risk
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