UPSTREAM PETROLEUM CONSULTING
Our Upstream Consulting Business specializes in providing technical consulting services for the upstream petroleum sector. We offer a complete range of upstream geological, geophysical, and engineering professionals for consulting and resourcing opportunities worldwide. Our areas of expertise include:
- Geoscience Interpretation Services (GIS),
- Petrophysics & Reservoir Characterization (PRC),
- Reservoir Engineering & Simulation (RES),
- Brown & Marginal Fields Management (BMF)
- Well Engineering & Production Support (WEP) and
- Property Evaluation & Reporting: Reserves & Resources (PER),
Why Choose Our Service
Our teams of experts have screened, evaluated, generated, and drilled thousands of exploration and development prospects in a variety of basins in various tectonic settings (extensional, compressional, strike-slip) across multiple geologic settings and have been involved in the discovery of billions of barrels of oil equivalent.
Our goal is to help you maximize your chance of success, minimize the risk of drilling a dry hole, save time, reduce costs, maximize production, enhance and maintain production flow assurance, and extend the life of older fields through our direct consulting services. Our experts have managed several brown and marginal fields; we can help you find new opportunities in old fields and mature basins!
Together with our Technical Advisory Board, our principals have extensive knowledge of the Niger Delta basin, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore West Africa basins (Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gabon, Cote d’ Ivoire, Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, and Mauritania), South Atlantic basins (e.g. offshore Angola, Congo, Namibia, Brazil), Appalachian Basin, Rocky Mountain Region, East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, etc.), North Africa (Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia) and the North Sea.
We routinely help our upstream clients to produce high quality geological and geophysical interpretation products to assist them in their exploration and production of oil and gas. Our principals and consultants typically provide the services under the supervision of our highly experienced advisory board. We can either carry out these projects in our office or, if you prefer, our personnel can be embedded in your team to provide increased collaboration with your team and improved integration of our results in your evaluations. Our specializations include:
- Play Fairway Evaluation & Prospect Identification
- Prospect Evaluation and Risk Assessment through to Economics
- Stochastic and Deterministic Static Resource Volume (OOIP & OGIP) Estimation and Risking
- Reservoir Characterization and Modelling
- Basin Analysis and Petroleum Systems Modelling
- Sedimentological and Stratigraphic Evaluations
- Regional Interpretation and Mapping of Geological and Geophysical
- Seismic Data Evaluation and Interpretation
- Seismic Modelling/Quantitative Geophysical Interpretation
- Geopressure Plotting and Drilling Hazard Prediction from Well and Seismic Data
- Quantitative and Qualitative Gravity and Magnetic Data Interpretation
- Generation of 3-Dimensional Structural Models and Fault Analysis
Under the guidance and supervision of our highly experienced advisory board, our Petrophysics and Reservoir Characterization (PRC) business unit support our clients’ exploration and production project via the integration of multidisciplinary datasets that may include open- and cased -hole logs, core data, production log data, geological and geophysical data (e.g. seismic data).
Our experts support our clients’ production optimization efforts through the design, management, and interpretation of log and core data acquisition programs, image log processing and interpretation, reservoir studies, and production performance evaluations. We understand that seismic attributes are critical to understanding rock characteristics away from the wellbore, so we leverage industry-leading software to ensure that you are provided with the most accurate seismic interpretations and attribute analysis with well-defined faults and geologic structures. Our solutions can help you to present defendable business recommendations to your company’s senior management.
Our Reservoir Engineering and Simulation (RES) business unit help our clients to answer several questions and proffer solutions that help them to optimize oil and gas production from their reservoirs during all reservoir life cycles, starting from the primary recovery and up to enhanced oil recovery. By leveraging on the skills of our principals and technical advisory board, we routinely utilize conventional reservoir engineering techniques to identify new infill opportunities, suggest smart horizontal wells to control coning, simulate fractured reservoir and model both improved and enhanced recovery methods. Our solutions help our clients to maximize their company’s return on investment.
Our principals and consultants can help you to understand and proffer solutions to the challenges facing the development of brown and marginal fields from subsurface to facility design. We can help you to understand the range of subsurface uncertainties facing matured fields and can propose mitigation plans to help your company optimize oil and gas production and maximize her return on investments. We help our clients to develop reservoir management plans, early production systems, smart well completion, low cost well architecture, feasible reservoir fluid depletion approaches and construction of integrated production systems for a cost-effective development plan.
Our Well Engineering and Production Services (WEPS) business unit provides critical well engineering and production support services to the oil and gas industry. We provide comprehensive and cost-effective well planning, well design and well management services to our clients. Our principals have successfully drilled and completed many wells in onshore, shelf and deepwater environments and are very well experienced with high pressure high temperature (HPHT), corrosive wells and other challenging wells. Our services include
- Well Planning and Configuration
- Onshore, Shallow Water/Shelf and Deepwater Environments
- Project Management: Drilling Operations and Supervision
- Drilling Contracts, Procurement and Cost Engineering
- Casing and Tubing Design and Well Analysis
- HPHT, Corrosive Wells, and Deep Wells
- Well Testing and DST
- Completions and Workover
- Equipment Support
- Equipment Sourcing and Procurement
- Matching Equipment to Production Plans
- Wellhead Material Specifications and Selection
- Downhole Materials Selection including Tubulars and Corrosion Resistant Alloys
- Tubular Inspection and Running Practices
- Drilling Health, Safety & Environment
- Mill Surveillance and Fishing
- Failure Analysis and Investigation
- Annular Pressure Build-up Analysis and Mitigation Techniques
- Well Abandonment and Decommissioning Support
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- Acetop Energy’s property Evaluation (PER) business unit provides independent assessment of hydrocarbon reserves and resources to our clients. By leveraging our knowledge and understanding of basin-wide petroleum systems and the ability to assess and rank prevalent play types, prospective areas, and potential hydrocarbon volume distributions, our team of geoscientists, reservoir engineers and economists provide reliable risk and volumetric assessment of reserves, contingent resources, and prospective resources. Our integrated geoscientific, engineering and economic assessments typically provide our clients with a ranked and risked property portfolio that can help to guide their decision-making process with regards to exploration expenditures, field development planning, acquisitions, production forecast, generation of cash flow models, farm-ins and farm-outs, property/assets trades, lease sales and/or lease renewal and relinquishments. Our scope of work may include:
- Evaluation of client data to identify potential hydrocarbon accumulations or review of the client’s prospective inventory where potential hydrocarbon accumulations have already been identified
- Probabilistic volumetric assessments of prospects and leads using available data: logs, seismic and reservoir analogues
- Prospect risk analysis involving source rock presence and effectiveness, reservoir presence and effectiveness as well as trap presence and effectiveness. This may also involve the analysis of the risks associated with source rock type, quality, volume, and thermal maturity; examination of migration pathways and timing of migration; trapping mechanisms and seal capacity/effectiveness
- Classification and aggregation of resources by play type, license/permit, field, block or region
- Assembly of a risked and ranked portfolio of exploration opportunities
- Provision of detailed reports with discussion of figures, text and tables
- Transfer of all associated assessment data, cases, scenarios and models to the client
- Acetop Energy’s property Evaluation (PER) business unit provides independent assessment of hydrocarbon reserves and resources to our clients. By leveraging our knowledge and understanding of basin-wide petroleum systems and the ability to assess and rank prevalent play types, prospective areas, and potential hydrocarbon volume distributions, our team of geoscientists, reservoir engineers and economists provide reliable risk and volumetric assessment of reserves, contingent resources, and prospective resources. Our integrated geoscientific, engineering and economic assessments typically provide our clients with a ranked and risked property portfolio that can help to guide their decision-making process with regards to exploration expenditures, field development planning, acquisitions, production forecast, generation of cash flow models, farm-ins and farm-outs, property/assets trades, lease sales and/or lease renewal and relinquishments. Our scope of work may include:
RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSULTING
Our Renewable Energy business unit partners with technology owners, lenders and contractors to develop ideas and cost-effective clean energy projects that connects our corporate, government, and private clients to powerful clean energy solutions for power generation or for transportation. We assist clients in deciding what solutions and technologies are most appropriate for their needs and also provide them with innovative funding, procurement and smarter engineering solutions to further improve market competitiveness. Our principals’ areas of expertise include solar, wind, hydro, biomass, anaerobic digestion, hybrid systems and marine wave power.
CARBON CAPTURE UTILIZATION AND STORAGE BUSINESS
Our CCUS Business unit utilizes our expertise in geology and geophysics to help companies, governments and other stakeholders to identify and select underground storage sites that hold the greatest long term CO2 storage promise. Our principals have carried out extensive research area and are highly qualified to ensure that we help clients to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement by identifying subsurface sites where CO2 can be safely, economically, efficiently and securely stored on a long-term basis.
ENERGY MANAGEMENT & FINANCE
Our consultants and principals in our Energy Management and Finance business unit are a team of finance and management professionals who are dedicated to generating ideas and solutions that provide financial and strategic benefits to our clients. We offer proactive and sustainable energy management choices, financing and strategies to our clients. We routinely challenge our clients to view energy and sustainability issue strategically to ensure that all decisions support the financial and operational integrity of their businesses. Our core areas of service include
- Gas marketing, scheduling, nominating and balancing services
- Negotiation of gas gathering and processing agreements
- Cost and carbon footprint control and risk management
- Strategic risk management including fuel price (e.g. petrol, diesel, AGO) risk management and hedging services
- Market research and intelligence including client education, wholesale energy market access and pricing, primary research reports, regulatory and legislative tracking
