Exploration
Optimizing asset performance and maximizing value over the full asset lifecycle.
Exploration decisions involve balancing technical insight with commercial and operational realities. Our consultants help bring clarity to this process by combining robust science, high quality data, and deep domain expertise, all translated into clear, practical recommendations. Working either alongside your teams or independently, they support effective planning and delivery with a strong focus on safety, efficiency, and value. With more than 200 projects delivered worldwide, we offer integrated support from basin screening through to prospect evaluation, helping you make timely, well-informed decisions and accelerate your time to first oil.
As reserves decline and project economics become more challenging, a clear understanding of risk and reward is essential to exploration projects. Aligning exploration decisions with company strategy is essential to stronger portfolio choices, more resilient investment outcomes, and sustainable long term growth.
Our exploration services
Regional/basin evaluation
Assessment of regional or basin exploration potential for new venture evaluation, as well as extension of known hydrocarbon plays and petroleum systems to identify new leads and opportunities.
Structural Geology
Evaluation of structural geology at regional, basin or prospect scale, with a focus on understanding structural styles and evolution.
Play Identification and assessment
Analysis of petroleum systems and the relationship between their key elements and identified leads, potential prospects or known hydrocarbon accumulations within specific stratigraphic levels.
Petroleum system modeling
Conventional and unconventional system analysis, including assessment of trap, reservoir, charge and seal, alongside an understanding of related processes and timing.
Resource assessment
Quantification of identified and potential resources at basin, play or lease block level; including probabilistic yet-to-find resource using industry standard methodologies.
Prospect assessment and ranking
Assessment and ranking of identified prospects by probabilistic quantification of hydrocarbon resources, risk, and potential value.
Full cycle value assessment
Economic evaluation of drillable prospects, incorporating probabilistic value assessment through subsurface and surface risk quantification. .
Exploration center
Managed, integrated end-to-end exploration process, from basin evaluation to prospect identification and full-cycle value assessment of drillable prospects, aligned with strategic company goals.
