Team-GIS Acreage Analyst: Brochures/White Papers

Press

Regional play risk analysis, block ranking, and portfolio analysis of the UKCS Central North Sea  (Jun 2010)
Published in the ESRI Map Book Vol. 25, this 'Regional play risk analysis, block ranking, and portfolio analysis of the UKCS Central North Sea' example demonstrates how Team-GIS Segment Analyst can be used to predict optimum oil exploration locations.

GIS in the oil and gas exploration business  [PDF]  (Jun 2010)
Article that showcases Exprodat's Team-GIS product suite and shows how GIS has moved from being specialist software used by a few people, to a product at the heart of company IT departments and on the desktops of the majority of staff. From Drilling and Exploration World, June 2010.    

Locating wind farms [PDF]  (Feb 2010)
Oil and Gas experience provides wind farm location expertise using established ranking analytical criteria. In exactly the same way that potential sites for wind farms are ranked according to their performance against a list of criteria, so are the blocks that make up an exploration and production site for Oil & Gas companies. From GeoConnexion's GeoRisk Magazine, Feb/March 2010.

Which acreage should you pursue? [PDF]  (Nov 2008)
Oil companies might be better thinking in terms of which play to enter, or which acreage to pursue, rather than specifically which prospect to drill. From Digital Energy Journal, Nov/Dec 2008.

Presentations

Spatial analysis in petroleum exploration  [PDF]  (Jun 2010)
Gareth Smith's presentation abstract from the EAGE Barcelona '10 conference, June, 2010, examining how GIS is emerging as a key component for supporting and improving the exploration process, including risk assessment and opportunity screening and ranking. The full presentation is available for download from our members pages.

Spatial integration at the play level  [video] (Jan 2009) 
Gareth Smith's presentation from the Second Oil Voice Forum, London.

Blogs

Reduce your oil exploration risk (Mar 2010)
This blog outlines some simple ways to improve your understanding of the geologic risk associated with your oil and gas opportunities, be they plays, licenses, prospects or producing fields.

Around 2800 blocks in 80 days  (Feb 2010)
The UK government's 26th offshore oil and gas licensing round includes new "Frontier" licences, with an extended nine-year exploration term, as well as some new tax breaks to stimulate activity. Blocks are being offered in all UK territorial waters for the first time in 12 years.

Using GIS to rank UKCS blocks  (Sep 2009)
With the UK's 26th Licensing Round expected to be announced in January 2010 its likely that the thoughts of the petroleum companies operating in the North Sea will soon turn to figuring out what the best acreage likely to be on offer is.

White papers

Spatial integration in play analysis  [PDF]  (Dec 2009)
Exprodat and Exploration Geosciences are collaborating on the development of new ways of extracting geotechnical and commercial value from spatial data. This paper describes some of the results of this collaboration, with examples of how GIS can enhance the exploration workflow.