Spring Newsletter

SEALS International

Spring

PROSPECT RISK ASSESSMENT

Seals International is the leading world expert on fault seal analysis. Our prospect risk analyses are based upon the largest, empirical database of fault seal behavior in oil and gas fields.

We can provide a rapid risk assessment of your faulted prospect. Don’t wait until you’ve finished your work before you start the fault seal analysis. Early fault seal analysis can save time by focusing your interpretation efforts along critical portions of the fault and can quickly rank multiple prospects focusing your attention on the most viable traps.

Call or write now for your prospect analysis

Dr. Grant M. Skerlec

Tel: +253.584.1540

Contact Seals International

For 12 reasons why you should be worried about fault seal

SEALS COURSE

The SEALS course is a 4-day, in-house course on fault seal, top seal and migration. The emphasis is on practical techniques based upon 25 years of risking prospects in a wide variety of structural styles.

To schedule a course for your group in 2014 contact:

gms@SealsInternational.com

gmskerlec@gmail.com

Visit our website SealsInternational.com for a course outline.

SOFTWARE

The new QuickLook fault seal software allows both normal deterministic analysis as well as stochastic analysis. It allows you to rapidly evaluate a wide variation of possible stratigraphies and fault displacements.

The following figures, automatically generated by the QuickLook software, show probable hydrocarbon columns (green) in individual sands in both the hanging-wall and footwall of a fault at 3 different fault displacements (Minimum D, Most Likely D and Maximum D). The actual sand/shale stratigraphy is shown at right (sand-yellow, shale-gray).

New QuickLook fault seal analysis software

We are excited about our new SEALS software. During two recent consulting projects we have been faced with very short deadlines and difficult prospects that involved large stratigraphic and structural uncertainties. The new Quick Look fault seal analysis software arose out of that need.

This new software does the routine SGR analysis we have used for years but more quickly and it does several other important things. The software directly shows:

Juxtapositions

Fault dependent leak points

Hydrocarbon columns

Uses Monte Carlo methods to generate stratigraphic columns for stochastic seal analysis.

For more details see this link

Hanging-Wall Footwall

Stratigraphic Column

Potential reservoir sands are shown in yellow, shales in gray. Probable oil columns are shown at left

The software automatically generates statistics for hydrocarbon columns and percent fill allowing you to easily rank prospects and evaluate the effect of your interpretations on entrapment.

Statistics for Footwall HC Columns

Footwall	Min Displ	ML Displ	Max Displ
Total HC Column	180	288	349
Min HC Column (ft)	4	4	4
Max HC Column (ft)	10	20	30
Avg. HC Column (ft)	3.5	16	18.4
Number of HC Columns	13	18	18
Percent Fill	33.3	53.2	64.5

*newsletter images lack resolution for counting number of columns. Table statistics are correct.

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