Products - GeoX/gPlayR

It is increasingly important that exploration efforts are allocated to the most promising regions and areas. Limited personnel and financial resources are often chasing too many – and not necessarily the best – exploration opportunities. Although prospects are the ultimate target of exploration efforts, sound prospect analysis pre-supposes significant investments in regional expertise and data. These investments are often irreversible. Decisions that allocate regional exploration effort therefore need to be based on realistic and consistent estimates of basin and play potential.

gPlayR supports rapid, quality-assured analysis of both hypothetical and speculative play resources. Explicit distinction between play-level and prospect-level risks makes the tool suitable for the analysis of both frontier and more mature exploration provinces. Support for split and aggregation of play analyses enables your estimates to evolve as the play is played out. A size-by-rank estimation functionality can be used to structure an evaluation of the economic potential of plays.

Direct assessment of play

Plays are modelled as a family of prospects. GeoX/gPlayR produces estimates of dry hole risks, number of accumulations, accumulation size and total hydrocarbon resources. The main inputs are distributional estimates of volumetric properties for the family of prospects (closure size, thickness, porosity, trap-fill etc.), a distributional estimate of the number of prospects in the play, estimates of both common and prospect dependent risks. As a result, play resources and risks can be evaluated without explicit mapping or defintion of individual prospects.

Stochastic volumetrics with composite risking

In-place and recoverable oil, associated gas and non-associated gas are assessed using stochastic input parameter estimates. Explicit distinction between marginal, play-level risks and conditional, prospect specific risks provides calibrated analysis of frontier and mature plays. Additional features such as on-the-fly unit conversion and direct entry of intermediate values provide a flexible and scaleable HC accumulation modelling framework.

Explicit petroleum system modelling

Explicit definition of reservoir rock, trap, seal and source rock structure and attributes supports estimation, documentation, reporting and learning from play analyses.

Common relational geodatabase

Play analyses and play descriptions are stored in a common GeoX database using industry standard relational database systems such as Oracle and Sybase. gPlayR supports client/server solutions with multiple users sharing a common database on the server. The system is also delivered as a stand-alone solution with a personal relational database.

Integrated play and prospect analysis

The GeoX/gProspectR tool supports prospect-level analysis of risks and resources. Used together, gProspectR and gPlayR promote procedural and data integration where prospects are explicitly linked to the corresponding play in the common play and prospect database.

Xport and Import of analyses

The GeoXport/Import functionality is a simple, but effective tool for exchanging analyses and data between GeoX databases. Analysis trading facilitates the sharing of data and expertise across sites in a corporate setting. It promotes the use of a common terminology, common reference cases and common benchmark tables. With the GeoXport/Import functionality you can maintain a complete and up-to-date corporate exploration data base.

Active best practice and argumentation support

A unique argumentation scheme for input parameter estimates provides a basis for systematic application and development of best practice play evaluation. Using pre-defined justification templates the scheme promotes a quality assured, handbook-like play analysis.

Automatic, as-you-go analysis reporting

Analysis reports based on predefined outlines are produced automatically as you proceed through the play analysis. Reports can be customized and applied using alternative outline templates. Reporting across analyses can be produced through direct access to the GeoX database using SQL-based reporting technology.

Day-one operation

Like all the tools in the GeoX workbench, gPlayR is simple to use with effective use from the first day. Flexible interaction provides a basis for rapid analysis of simple cases and direct extension to the analysis of more complex situations. A modern window-based graphical user interface assures that 80 % of all interactions are point-and-select operations.

Comprehensive training and technical support

GeoKnowledge’s experienced prospectivity assessment and decision support professionals offer hot-line assistance, training seminars and active implementation assistance. The support is offered world-wide through international partners.

System requirements are

• Windows 95/98/Me/2000/X/NT 4
  
• Pentium 200 or better with 32 MB RAM minimum (64 MB RAM recommended)
  
• Workstation Hard Disk Space 50 MB (Executables only, does not include data)
  
• ORACLE Version 7.0 or greater (Personal for the stand-alone version of GeoX)

You can obtain a free starter version of GeoX can be obtained by filling out this registration form, or you can request more information about GeoX/ProspectR by filling out this form.

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