During the last 50 years of oil and gas exploration off the Norwegian Continental shelf, more than 2000 exploration wells and wellbores have been drilled, recording a wealth of subsurface information.  Through the successes and failures of our predecessors, a vast and valuable resource has been gathered for today’s explorationists to tap into.

This stored treasure of ground truth data holds vital clues to understanding plays, narrowing prospect risks and increasing exploration success.

A well drilled many years ago may hold the information you need to understand key aspects of your exploration targets today.

It sounds simple, but as with all treasure hunting, first there are challenges to overcome. Legacy data may be difficult to find, be stored in out of date or even analog formats and could be incompatible with today’s software and workflows.  Once accessed, analysis and experience-based understanding is needed to extract and calibrate information from the raw data and to incorporate findings from original, often handwritten reports.

So how can we leverage this important data in today’s fast-paced projects without losing many hours of vital exploration time?

Thankfully there is an affordable solution.

GeoProvider has done the hard work of compiling, digitizing, reprocessing and analyzing wells from across the NCS and wider North Sea.  The result is a powerful resource of ready to use ground truth data.  Software compatible data that can be delivered directly to you for immediate import into your exploration workflows.