Can You Identify Bypassed Pay?

With commercial quantities of hydrocarbons becoming harder to locate and produce, using yesterday's conventional technology approach could leave you at a competitive disadvantage. Our "Bypassed Pay"  indicator is only one of a suite of integrated geophysical tools designed to reduce risk by "seeing" what conventional technology cannot.

Conventional 3-D Amplitude Map

Right: Shows strong amplitude related to a depleted area around abandoned wells in Fault blocks A, B, and D. Reds and yellows indicate strong amplitude values.

3-D "Density Cube™" Map

Shows the depleted zones (grays) and potential "Bypassed pay" in red, green and yellow. (The "Density Cube™" can discriminate between low and high hydrocarbon saturation.)

3-D AVO Strength Map

Shows a positive AVO response related to the depleted areas. (Beware of hydrocarbon indicators such as AVO and bright spot technology as they cannot differentiate between low and high hydrocarbon saturation.) Reds and yellows indicate amplitudes increasing with increasing offset.

Observations/Ideas

  1. Notice the updip hydrocarbon potential in fault blocks A and B as seen on the 3-D Density Contrast Map.
     

  2. Notice the "missed opportunity" in fault block C as seen on the 3-D  "Density Cube™" Map.
     

  3. Notice the bypassed pay in fault block D that was not drilled in the optimum location.
     

  4. Imagine being able to generate higher yields in existing fields, reevaluate old or declining fields, optimize new fields and explore efficiently by applying this existing new technology.
     

  5. By now, you should be thinking of several areas where this technology needs to be applied.
     

  6. What are you waiting for? Call Emerald now and get a competitive advantage!

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