Sub-Surface Studies

PDC offers the oil and gas industry fully integrated teams of industry professionals with the flexibility to meet their every need from reservoir studies to field development planning. 

Reservoir Simulation

• Reservoir modeling
• Reservoir Evaluation
• GAP Modelling
• Material Balance (MBal) studies
• Complex descriptions

       Geostatistics

       Corner-point gridding

• Enhanced recovery studies
• Field development studies
• Field rehabilitation studies
• Exploitation studies
• Surface network simulation

       Pipeline networks

       Process facilities

       Compression

       Gas plants

       Tie to subsurface

Engineering

• Fluid injection
• Cycling
• Waterflood technology
• Gas deliverability studies
• Wellhead compression studies
• Pipeline compression studies
• Pipeline capacity studies
• Operating problems
• Drilling engineering
• Underground gas storage
• Oil shales
• Expert witness testimonies

Reserves Estimation

• Reservoir engineering

       Estimation of oil, condensate, gas, and natural gas liquids reserves

• Undeveloped reserves potential and classification

       Proved

       Probable

       Possible

• Economic evaluations

       Net cash flow

       Fair market valuations

       Production Sharing Contracts (PSC)

       Estate valuations

       Profit-sharing trust valuations

• Stock exchange registrations and filings

       Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

       London Stock Exchange

       Australian Stock Exchange

       Stock Exchange of Hong Kong

       Canadian Provincial Securities

• Reserves audit evaluations
• Enhanced recovery studies
• Evaluation of rock properties, relative permeability, capillary pressure
• Pressure transient analysis
• Gas certifications
• Gas deliverability studies
• Oil and gas migration
• Unitization studies

Geological Studies

• Surface and subsurface mapping

       Structure

       Isopach

       Net pay

      Isochore

• Volumetric estimates
• Reservoir characterization
• Stochastic reservoir modeling
• Equity determination
• Geostatistical modeling

Economic Forecasts

• Energy studies
• Market demand studies
• Market surveys
• Oil and gas securities
• Cost analysis
• Transportation analysis
• Profitability analysis
• Capacity studies

For more information, click on the Reservoir Engineering and Upstream Integrated Teams tabs on left hand side column.