Ikon Science offers fully integrated workflows that leverage the interaction between geomechanics, pore pressure, and quantitative interpretation to generate complete stories of the reservoir for either hydrocarbon extraction or fluids sequestration. The goal is to generate more robust, actionable subsurface models that identify and quantify risk, delivering safer and more efficient drilling, reducing downtime and improving environmental outcomes.
Our team of experts deliver rigorous assessments of pore pressure and stress-generating mechanisms, by building understanding of both the regional and local wellbore conditions, through time.
Our multi-disciplinary approach enables our clients to develop an accurate understanding of subsurface conditions. Reduce drilling risk/hazards, increase wellbore stability, optimize casing seat selection, and design the pre-drill mud window with our collaborative project plan.
Our Services Team use the best available 1D and/or 3D data to calibrate geologically-sensible pressure and stress models, to better understand the subsurface and effectively build robust drilling plans. Our approach to uncertainty and data analysis leads to successful pore pressure and geomechanical prediction, enabling successful outcomes for our clients.
Ikon helps our clients to understand what data are valid and what is theoretically possible, a key part of the de-risking phase, helping reduce uncertainty and avoid producing over-constrained estimates through the data review and interpretation phase, which is critical to building effective subsurface pressure and stress models.
We capture and communicate uncertainties using a best practice approach to overcome inherent uncertainty. Our expert understanding of the complexity and diversity of geological conditions, rock properties and fluid dynamics delivers improved accuracy in prediction.
Regional pressure assessment
Pore pressure prognosis and geomechanics for well planning
Wellbore stability analysis to optimise drilling programmes (e.g., well inclination and azimuth)
Lateral (fault) and vertical seal risking as a containment risk
Depletion analysis/sand production
Hydrodynamics and regional fluid dynamics
Real-time pore pressure and geomechanics monitoring for well operations
Peer-review support for clients as subject matter experts in the pore pressure domain
