Earth Model

Neftex has built a global Earth Model using sequence stratigraphic techniques and analysis of a huge public domain dataset. Through detailed evaluation of the geological record of the world’s major sedimentary basins we are able to identify, correlate and map in excess of 100 depositional sequences around the world.

Our Earth Model now includes hundreds of chronostratigraphic and structural sections, thousands of gross depositional environment maps in GIS, together with thousands of interpreted digital well logs, all integrated by use of a common global sequence stratigraphic scheme.

Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Earth’s sedimentary geology provides a powerful means for detailed stratigraphic correlation, facies and isopach mapping, prediction of untested stratigraphy, and detailed play and petroleum systems description. Using sequence stratigraphy, more reliable predictions of subsurface risk and commercial value are possible than with traditional stratigraphic techniques.

Started in 2003, the Neftex Earth Model now approaches full global coverage and has application to the Petroleum, Minerals, Finance, Groundwater and Publishing industries, and also to the emerging field of Carbon Capture and Storage.

We market our global Earth Model products for the Petroleum industry as a series of 15 individual Regions, available from our website on payment of a license fee and an annual maintenance fee. For each Region we offer a Base Module which contains the main regional geological description, together with additional Modules addressing in more detail aspects such as Source Rocks, Reservoirs and Seals, and Play Fairways. All Neftex Earth Model products are maintained by continued monitoring of public domain resources and the regular addition of new data and interpretations.

The next major development for our Earth Model is our new global Geodynamics Module - a state of the art geodynamic plate model, fully integrated with our Earth Model, showing how the Earth has developed over the last 600 Ma of Earth history.