GeoScience Limited

Oilfield Geomechanics
Fractured Reservoir Characterisation
Geothermal Engineering

 
GeoScience Limited is an independent earth science consultancy, serving the oil & gas and geothermal industries.
 
Since 1985 we have been helping our clients to  minimize risk and uncertainty in their operations, solve problems and save money.
 
Our team of engineers, technicians and support staff can provide bespoke turnkey services or augment your own project teams.
 

This website summarises our experience and expertise and includes some technical information that has been of interest to clients in the past. In particular we invite you to take a look at our compilation of information on hydrocarbon production from fractured basements.

 

EarthEnergy Limited

Website users looking for information on all aspects of ground source heat pumps can email enquiries@mimerenergy.co.uk or contact us by phone though our offices on 0845 3881662. Brian Kennelly, Robin Curtis and the core team, with their in-depth experience and expertise, have joined forces with Mimer Energy to deliver low carbon heating and cooling for buildings, and have a consultancy arm, Mimer GeoEnergy, that provides feasibility, design, test, commission and troubleshooting services

The former staff and ourselves do not have any association with companies now using the name and brand EarthEnergy.

 

  
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News

Consultation on induced seismicity from ‘fracking’

May 2012
In April and May 2011 two minor seismic events were induced by hydraulic fracturing operations undertaken by Cuadrilla in the Blackpool area. A government - appointed panel of experts has reported on these events and their report has been the subject of a six week consultation period, following which the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will issue regulations for the monitoring and control of induced seismicity in the UK for shale gas fracturing. These regulations will also have a significant impact on potential deep geothermal developments.

The DECC report can be found here

GeoScience comments to the consultation process can be found on our downloads page

Recent and Current Activity in Fractured Reservoir Studies
We have been very busy throughout the year with major involvement in appraisal of prospects and fields in Kurdistan; studies ranged from core and log analysis right through to preliminary fracture models and estimation of fracture porosity; plus preparation of geomechanics models for critical shear evaluation and for wellbore stability. We have also delivered three field courses in the Spanish Pyrenees focussed on fracture carbonate analogs for carbonate reservoirs, including those of Kurdistan. Other projects have included North Sea Triassic sandstones and chalk; carbonates and dolomites in S France and central Germany; carbonates in Mexico; and basements in the North Sea.

Deep Geothermal Drilling - A Cornish EGS Project
Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) are the current manifestation of technology that GeoScience worked on in the 1980’s (then known as ‘Hot Dry Rocks’ geothermal). We are now involved in a project led by Geothermal Engineering Ltd to build an EGS near Truro in Cornwall. This will involve drilling to approximately 5km depth in a region of high heat flow and natural fracture permeability, to develop a reservoir system and recover hot water to surface for electricity generation. GeoScience has done the feasibility and design for GEL and a drilling site is in preparation.

www.geothermalengineering.co.uk

Pyrenees Field Courses and Zagros Petroleum geology Workshop 2013
Our next open course in 'Fractured Reservoir Outcrop Analogs and their Application to Reservoir Characterisation' will be held April 11-15th - please see our training pages. We also are planning a workshop on the petroleum geology of the Zagros fold and thrust belt to be held in the Pyrenees in September 2013 - please download this second circular. 

Upcoming Events:

We are exhibiting at the AAPG Europe region conference in Barcelona (April 8-10th) and at the EAGE Annual Conference in London (June 10-13th). We are also scheduled to give a presentation at the Geological Society Petroleum Conference in London: Hydrocarbons Exploration in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran, January 23-25th 2013.

Consultancy Associations
We have working associations with several independent consultancies in order to provide a wide range of services to hydrocarbon and geothermal exploitation companies. These are:

  • Cambridge Carbonates Ltd (www.cambridgecarbonates.com) who work in reservoir sedimentology and diagenesis
  • ERC Equipoise Ltd (www.ercequipoise.com) who are a reservoir evaluation company specializing in all areas of upstream analysis
  • African Shield Consulting Ltd (www.africanshield.net) who specialise in reservoir evaluations for Libya and South America

 

Tel: +44 (0)1326 211070   Fax: +44 (0)1326 212754   Email: contactgeo@geoscience.co.uk

GeoScience Limited, Falmouth Business Park, Bickland Water Road, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4SZ

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