Oil & Gas Exploration

Quantec’s technologies and geophysical services integrate well with other data, and serve as an excellent complement to seismic data.

 

Are There Times When 3D Seismic Data Isn’t Enough?

From time to time, 3D seismic data relays ambiguous results. Using Quantec’s Orion 3D technology the oil and gas industry can see the subsurface without a reliance on seismic data. Quantec’s geophysical surveys can image areas where seismic is unable to accurately measure the density difference between resources.

 

When seismic delivers incomplete results, or is cost-prohibitive, like clients in the Neuquin Basin, Quantec’s technologies define reliable drill targets. That’s because with Orion 3D Quantec delivers a complementary data set to seismic and at a lower cost.

What True 3D Acquisition Offers The Oil And Gas Industry

As a complementary data set to seismic, Quantec geophysical services combine all project data you have (like geological and well log information) to give you the most complete and precise picture of the subsurface. Orion 3D is an electrically based system making it easy to:

• Penetrate permafrost and volcanic cover to retrieve geological measurements.
• Identify variance between resources when seismic’s density-difference images cannot.
• Discriminate between bitumen and water to maximise heavy oil recovery and reduce steam requirements with Orion 3D’s high-resolution images.
• Pinpoint the hydrocarbon-bearing shale layer for drilling based on detailed resistivity measurements of shale formations.

 

The 3D and 4D difference models Quantec creates helps oil and gas companies understand where to set up the drill rig; determine which pathways are best for drill results; and to pinpoint the depth at which the resource occurs. So you can:

• See everything that is around the resource, thief zones included.
• Know how far back the resource extends instead of just how deep – unlike traditional geophysical surveys.
• Track the deposit change over time.