The Big Idea
Orca helps governments and companies reduce the risk of commercial failure in exploration and development by transparently constraining the quality, location and volume of subsurface petroleum accumulations with fit-for-purpose data.
Offshore exploration is risky and expensive.
A single well can cost over $100 million, and still come up dry. Why? Because traditional methods can only tell part of the story.
We find and study natural petroleum emissions at the bottom of the ocean.
These “seeps” hold clues about what’s below, how much oil is there, what type, and where it is currently located. We have special tools that can extract quantitative information from the clues at the seabed.
We turn those clues into a data-validated hydraulic picture of the petroleum system to compliment your seismic image. That means you make smarter, safer drilling decisions.
50% of commercial failures in mature, emerging and frontier areas are related to the hydraulic nature of the petroleum system.
Yet traditional methods remain focused on a static picture. See if you recognize these questions:
Mature and emerging basins - which of the reservoirs in my seismic image contain oil, what quality and how much?
Frontier basins - Where and how can I find evidence of a petroleum system?
What Makes Orca Different?
We go well beyond traditional surface geochemistry by harnessing modern paradigms on petroleum migration to exploit unknown or overlooked signals.
We start with data directly related to the key questions.
No guesswork. No hand-waving. Our measurements verify the analysis
We’ve done this before.
Our methods have been tested in real deepwater projects across the world.
We speak both science and economics.
So you get insights your entire team can act on fast.
