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Fully Scalable Solutions for Integrated Energy Transition Projects

We have collaborative partnerships with diverse industry leaders to deliver for our clients on the overall value chain, including Subsurface Evaluation, Emissions, Transport, Well Planning & Operations and Monitoring. Call us today to discuss how we can help you with your energy transition needs!

 

Strategic Industry Partners

Geomechanics & Petrophysics: Tom Bratton, LLC

Understanding the impact of injected fluid volumes (such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen) is a critical component of subsurface risk assessment and mitigation program, and Tom Bratton has more than 30 years of applied experience in this domain. Tom is a consultant to the oil and gas and energy transition industry specializing in geoscience applications for engineering operations. After retiring from a 36-year career with Schlumberger, he was a Visiting Professor and Research Associate in the Petroleum Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines (CSM). While at CSM, he enrolled as a graduate student and earned his PhD in Geophysics. Before starting his consulting business, Tom was a scientific advisor to Schlumberger’s senior management, specializing in petrophysics, geophysics, and geomechanics with a broad base of experience in drilling, completion, and reservoir engineering. Tom is a full member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA).

Seismic Image Processing: Land Noise Seismic Specialists

In addition to geochemical monitoring, seismic monitoring is a crucial component of carbon and hydrogen storage as well as imaging for exploration and production of geothermal energy as well as helium and lithium production. Class VI CO2 injection wells require monitoring to ensure that the plume of injected carbon dioxide does not migrate beyond the approved confining interval. Since most planned CCS projects on onshore, it is essential to have a geophysical monitoring program that adequately images the CO2 movement in the subsurface. Unfortunately, acquiring seismic data on land can be complicated by variations in how the seismic waves travel through the shallow portions of the sedimentary section, so it is critical that the seismic image processing accounts for these challenges.

Land Noise Seismic Specialists have decades of experience of successful imaging in challenging land-bases seismic surveys. They are an employee-owned, full service seismic imaging company with acquisition optimization and software business lines. Their mission is to provide more reliable seismic data to our customers through improved acquisition, processing, and reservoir services work. They have several differential, proprietary algorithms that helps them do this including a machine learning technology called "GEARS" for use in noise removal on prestack seismic data, Wave Equation Refraction Statics, and FWC (Full Waveform Correction), which provides a partial correction for near surface distortion. By using advanced algorithms for noise identification and removal they are changing noise removal on land seismic data from an art to a science. The benefits of this deterministic methodology include much improved high and low frequencies and near and far offsets (the latter typically indicating fluid changes expected as CO2 migrates through a reservoir) in the seismic data leading to improved reliability of attributes. Their technology also lends itself to shortening the processing cycle time, and delivering more interpretable seismic volumes. They also generate QC attribute volumes to more reliably measure the data quality at any stage in processing, as well as on attributes generated from the seismic data.

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Seismic Image Interpretation and Integration: Antora Geophysical

High quality seismic imaging is a good start to a successful energy transition program, but it is certainly not the end. A successful technical program requires highly experienced geophysicists that are able to fully integrate subsurface datasets, including 3D/4D seismic data, microseismic data (sonic information acquired from monitoring wellbores or surface arrays near CCS and hydrogen storage programs) and other wellbore data.

Jason Gumble, owner of Antora Geophysical, has more than twenty years of applied geophysical exploration and development expertise. Jason currently works with his clients (Matador Resources/Henry Resources) in the Delaware Basin conducting 3D seismic interpretation, attribute processing and analysis in support of well planning in Delaware Basin, TX.

Previous employers include Cimarex (Geophysical Analyst) and BP (Geophysicist). He is highly proficient at integrating geophysical and geomechanical data to achieve cost-effective solutions and help organizations meet their development goals.

 

Full Cycle Engineering, Economics and Development Planning: Texas Intercontinental Energy Resources (TIER)

In addition to quality subsurface characterization, a successful energy transition project, such as CCS, must have experienced advisors capable of handling key aspects of source and location of CO2 emissions, transport options, wellbore planning and integration with geoscience to create a solution for the full life cycle of these programs.

To address this critical need, we have partnered with Texas Intercontinental Energy Resources (TIER). PK Pande is founder and , Principal Advisor with TIER with multi-decades engineering experience. He has held many key roles during his career, including Chief Engineer of QEP Resources, Direction of Reservoir Technology at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Senior Engineering Advisor at Total, and Senior Engineer at BP. PK and TIER Associates have years of relevant energy transition experience, including: webinars on navigating the CCUS market, Gulf of Mexico CCUS Market Studies and detailed research of full life cycle economics for energy transition projects. By partnering with TIER, we have the ability to guide our clients with full-service CCS workflows, including process engineering, emissions handling process selection, plume modeling and reservoir simulation, Class VI well regulatory management, integrated project services and market studies across the lifetime of CCS projects.

Energy Transition Intelligence and Advisory Services: Decarbonfuse

The energy transition space is rapidly evolving, and it is crucial to stay current on industry activity, new legislation and hotspots for things like CCS and hydrogen storage.

We have partnered with Todd Bush, Managing Director at Decarbonfuse, to address this need. Todd was previously Head of North America for Westwood Global Energy, and also led digital oilfield, environmental, lean six sigma, and competitive intelligence initiatives for Chevron’s Lower 48 business unit.

In 2021, Todd started started Fuse Markets with the Decarbonfuse.com newsletter to build a resource for executives, engineers, and investors to find capital, build projects, and discover opportunities. Todd brings more than 2 decades of energy experiences, with key skills in market strategy, economic and financial analysis, stochastic modeling, decarbonization frameworks, emission monitoring tools, lean six sigma, decision analysis, marketing optimization & satellite analytics.

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