Petroleum Geochemistry
Our team of Geochemists is led by internationally renowned Dr Richard Tyson, who recently joined us from the University of Newcastle, UK. His particular interest is in the modelling and prediction of marine petroleum source rocks and their geochemical properties which is highly relevant in today’s oil exploration environment.
The team’s work forms an integral part of our many non-exclusive Petroleum Geology studies. If your exploration programme requires assistance in any of the following services, then please give us a call or send an email.
- Regional, basin or multi-well reviews of source rock potential and maturity (interpretation or reinterpretation of TOC, Rock-Eval, vitrinite reflectance, palynomorph colour, molecular biomarker, visual kerogen and organic petrological data)
- • Identification and characterisation of source rock intervals
- • Organic facies analysis (synthesis of sedimentological, geochemical and optical data for palaeoenvironmental analysis and source rock models)
- • 1D and 2D basin modelling for reconstructing petroleum generation and expulsion histories (BasinMod)
- • Source rock and charge volumetrics
- Oil-source rock correlation
- Oil-oil correlation
- Source rock prediction: integration of palaeogeography, global circulation, tidal and modern sediment based input-preservation-dilution modelling to delimit areas of source rock deposition, and spatial variation in source rock properties.
- Monte Carlo based risk modelling for source rock properties.
- Reservoir and production geochemistry
