SERVICES:

 

Solutions to your Subsurface Challenges

Accelerate decision-making and speed-to-production while managing budgets, enabling you to find the right balance between CAPEX, OPEX and internal headcount. Access the right expertise and skills, delivering critical projects, meeting strategic objectives and deadlines while alleviating resource challenges.

Ikon’s services span the breadth of the hydrocarbon lifecycle, including capture and storage solutions (CCUS & Hydrogen) to solve your subsurface challenges.

Integrated Subsurface Workflows

With more than 20 years of innovative research, development and industry experience, our Service Team delivers tailored solutions in the Rock Physics, Seismic Inversion, Reservoir Characterization, Pore Pressure Prediction, Geomechanics, and Data Solutions domains. We maximize value from client data and knowledge, demonstrate technical and operational excellence, and deliver on time and within budget.

Unique Solutions

Our Service Team constructs and executes subsurface investigation plans that recognize the complexity of each specific challenge, from data availability to technical feasibility, and ensures our clients understand the approach. Our broad experience in basins across the world has delivered more than 1300 successful projects to more than 400 clients across 118 countries.

From Data QC to Prediction

From quality availability control, conditioning, modeling, prediction of subsurface properties and operational recommendations, our integrated teams take a careful approach, always striving to add value for our clients.  Ikon's phased project structure provides regular communication and check-ins as well as high-level, detailed workflow summaries to demonstrate the ongoing progress of every project.

 

Services Solutions:

1). Integrated Solutions Approach

Integrate with multi-disciplinary geoprediction workflows. 

Know where, what and how to safely negotiate your geology with an understanding that a single-disciplinary approach can never definitively inform. Ikon’s Integrated services take a multi-disciplinary approach to the subsurface by leveraging a deep understanding of the elastic and rock properties with pressure to deliver context and greater accuracy, unlocking optimum outcomes and avoiding costly surprises.

 

Why is Integration So Important?

Understanding the basin history is of critical importance in the origin and development of energy systems. By its nature, it is often complex and uncertain and as scientists, we attempt to simplify its evolution. To ensure the most complete and accurate understanding of the subsurface, integration of disciplines becomes a foundational approach ensuring all data are correctly evaluated, QC’d and propagated through subsurface models to understand their impact on these systems.

Trusted Advisors

We work alongside our clients as trusted partners, as an extension of their teams. Our curiosity and relentless focus on solving customer problems make us the preferred option for subsurface understanding across the energy sector. We offer multi-disciplinary teams to match the unique needs of each project and share our decades of experience by applying this knowledge at each stage of your project lifecycles. 

Full Range of Linked Disciplines

Our integrated technical workflows are grounded in a deep understanding of the rocks, fluids and stresses, and are designed to deliver robust, data-driven solutions that our customers can use to make decisions confidently.

Lifecycle Approach

By understanding the geological and geophysical context we can deliver solutions through the full life-cycle of a field.  Our experts understand the big picture and can ensure that decisions made will sustain your business throughout the lifespan of initial license rounds, exploration, or end-of-field life, decommissioning or re-utilization/storage

 

 

 

2). Quantitative Interpretation

Predict rock properties from wells and seismic.

Gain better understanding of the subsurface by building data-validated geological models to help you make the best decisions to maximize your exploration success, production outputs, reservoir performance, and fluid sequestration efficiency.

Ikon brings more than 20 years of Rock Physics expertise with many of the world’s super-majors, NOCs and independents as well as our multidisciplinary experience in pore pressure and geomechanics to our client’s projects. Our bespoke, proven workflows deliver some of the most accurate outcomes in the industry, backed by our world-leading geopredictive software.

Conditioning

The initial phase of our projects involve gathering, analyzing and establishing a framework for the interpretation of geologically meaningful information from well and seismic data. Data may be damaged, missing, or not yet in optimal condition for use as input into quantitative workflows. Our diagnostic plots highlight, assess, and track improvements as data are refined.

Modeling

Variations of rock and fluid properties are explored to understand how changes in mineralogy, porosity, pore-filling fluids, net-to-gross, TOC, and other properties affect the seismic response. Guidelines for seismic horizon and amplitude interpretation are generated to guide multi-disciplinary workflows, while full 3D property model or 4D sim-to-seis comparisons are generated to demonstrate the understanding or accuracy of complex reservoir models, or support design plans for future data acquisition.

 

Prediction

Our service team strives to tackle non-unique seismic problems and predict properties with a sense of confidence and deep understanding of uncertainties. We provide value by embracing the project objectives, understanding the data, maximizing precision by utilizing the most appropriate technology, and delivering results on time and within budget.

Innovative Approaches

Our services team is constantly testing new and innovative technology, improving standardized workflows to meet client and market needs in exploration, appraisal, development, end-of-field life and field repurposing.

More than Standard Workflows

• Petrophysics analysis for standardization, multi-well and multi-formation interpretation of properties such as mineralogy, porosity and saturations using calibrations from core and lab data when available
• Rock Physics analysis to establish the relationship between petrophysical and elastic properties seen in seismic data
• Synthetic Modeling for testing multiple what-if scenarios for AVO and other rock properties
• Seismic data conditioning to enhance the quality of seismic volumes prior to seismic inversion
• Seismic Inversion methods from conventional such as simultaneous, coloured, EEI to our proprietary Joint Impedance and Facies Inversion (Ji-Fi)
• Reservoir Characterization including 4D analysis.
• Machine Learning applications for handling large volumes of data

 

 

 

3). Pore Pressure and Geomechanics

Quantify pore pressure and geomechanical changes.

Understand the conditions, rock properties and fluid dynamics

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.

Regionally Informed Local Knowledge

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.

Multi-disciplinary Prediction

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.

Geologically-Sensible Modelling

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.

Driven by Data

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.

Capture Uncertainty

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.

 

 

4). Data Solutions

Prepare your data for geoprediction workflows.

Supporting Your Digital Transformation

Reduce data flow bottlenecks, deliver against your digital transformation initiatives and realize the value of your organization’s data. Ikon’s Data Solutions Team implements data and knowledge management initiatives by applying our expertise in E&P data standards, utilization and best practice to deliver industry-leading data solutions with our Curate Knowledge Management Platform.

Solution Consultation

Our Solution Architects review your existing data challenges and goals to determine the right solutions to meet your current and future needs. Through this process we enable the digital transformation of your business by using Curate and partnering with leading technology providers.

Technical Services

Our highly skilled Technical Services consultants work with your IT and data management teams to ensure Curate solutions are implemented to deliver maximum value across your existing infrastructure. Our team delivers seamless data flow across your digital ecosystem,  whether installing and configuring systems or creating custom connectors.

Data Services

Our Data Services team supports  all your data management needs. We provide guidance on defining data models and standards, and business rules to govern data management and QC. The Data Services team can deliver clearly defined data projects or provide an outsourced continuous data management service. Regardless of scale or scope, we can help you meet your digital transformation objectives.

Solution Support

Data Solutions and Customer Success Teams provide ongoing support for all Curate solutions, ensuring long-term success in utilizing our technology, ensuring it continues to meet the changing needs and ever-evolving digital roadmaps of our clients.

 

 

5). Energy Transition Services

What comes out, can go back in. For more than 20 years, Ikon Science has combined scientific expertise, technology and workflows that support the energy transition. Our understanding of Rock Physics together with our multidisciplinary approach to the subsurface provides unparalleled insight into the challenges associated with repurposing fields. Our ongoing partnerships within the industry and leading research institutions allow us to drive forward innovation within this space.

Capture, Utilization and Storage

We characterize the physical and mechanical properties, chemistry and structure of the subsurface to determine the feasibility of subsurface storage prospects and inform effective location screening. Our multidisciplinary team brings an understanding of where to place injection wells to best navigate cap-rock, sealing capacity, fault-seal integrity, fracture limits, and stress states to safely utilize your reservoir.

Injecting Expertise

We utilize rock physics and 4D analysis to determine the acoustic/elastic rock properties of reservoirs and their sensitivities to fluid/CO₂ saturations to give the greatest understanding of the impacts from injecting. Our real-time monitoring capabilities enable clients to effectively predict, track and monitor plumes and other geomechanical changes to the subsurface over time.

Geothermal Services

Ikon Science can perform feasibility screening of basins with geothermal resource potential. Utilizing our bespoke workflows we deliver an understanding of where overpressure is predicted, the permeabilities of the reservoir formations, methane saturation of the formation brine and formation temperatures.

Over-Field Geomechanical Feasibility

Re-utilization of existing fields and infrastructure requires an understanding of the potential impacts of compaction from any structures on the transformed subsurface. Ikon’s rock physics and geomechanical expertise can determine site feasibility and define parameters for safe and sustainable engineering of structures in over-field environments.

Dedicated Workflows and Outputs

Our team of experts help your team understand risks and investment decisions around storage capacity, injectivity, and site integrity for CCUS or overpressures, permeability, saturation and temperatures in geothermal feasibility.

We have utilized our RokDoc software to develop bespoke workflows for activities across the energy transition spectrum. From monitoring drilling pressure and stresses in real-time for geothermal or image and predict plume behaviour and build technical due diligence for regulator review of CCUS, our experts can help you efficiently navigate the subsurface.

Our Digital Services team can help you capture and manage your data and project assets for your exploration, appraisal and characterization activities and deliver this data to users, stakeholders and clients via a web interface through our Curate Knowledge Management Platform.

Our Carbon Capture Project Experience:

- Due diligence and screening studies for containment/site suitability

- Pressure & geomechanical assessment of site potential

- Rock physics modelling studies for CO₂ monitoring feasibility

- Data review and quality assessment for plume modeling

- 4D Seismic analysis for CO₂ plume monitoring / tracking and improved reservoir / facility management

- Over-field geomechanical compaction studies to determine the feasibility of structures such as wind turbines over existing fields.

 

Energy Transition Services

• Feasibility studies, including petrophysics, reservoir modelling and simulation of CO₂/Hydrogen plume movement
• Injection for storage and enhanced oil recovery
• Storage site screening and characterisation for potential CO₂/Hydrogen storage and third-party verification
• Assessment and mitigation of the risks associated with CO₂/Hydrogen leakage
• Drilling, completion, and injection tests of CO₂/Hydrogen wells
• Over-field Geomechanical Feasibility/compaction studies to define the feasibility of structures such as wind turbines over existing fields

Training Courses:

 

Software and theory-based instructor-led training courses.

Boost your subsurface skills with our in-person software and theory training courses.

Instructor-led Training Courses

• Software Course: RokDoc Rock Physics
• Software Course: RokDoc Reservoir Characterization
• Software Course: RokDoc Seismic Data Conditioning & Simultaneous Inversion
• Software Course: RokDoc Ji-Fi
• Software Course: RokDoc 4D Reservoir Monitoring
• Software Course: RokDoc PressureView, GeoPressure Calculators & Seismic Pressure Calculator
• Software Course: RokDoc GeoMechanics
• Theory Course: Pressures and Overpressure in the Subsurface
• Theory Course: Rock Physics for Quantitative Interpretation: How to Think Like a Rock Physicist
• Theory Course: Introduction to Geomechanics

Business and Environmental Sustainability

Ikon Science is committed to long-term business and environmental sustainability.  From our offices to the solutions we provide, our focus is to ensure that risks to the environment and to our customers’ economic viability are kept to a minimum.  Our Leadership team is drawn from across the industry, bringing experience and expertise resulting in an innovative leadership approach. Long-term growth is enabled by the investment of Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm specializing in high-growth companies, focusing on expediting innovation in data analytics, machine learning and product development.

Partnership and Empowerment

We believe that partnership drives innovation, and we collaborate with leading companies including AWS, Accenture and Wipro as well as universities worldwide to provide the best possible outcomes for our customers. We partner with our clients to create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces and workflows in our software, and our wide range of expert services. Above all, we want you to enjoy the experience of working with Ikon – our friendly, knowledgeable team is committed to ensuring the best outcomes for all our customers.