What we offer
Oil industry and academic consultancy utilising knowledge of marine and non-marine microfossils used in biostratigraphic evaluation, data interpretation and application, including CCS/CCUS support.
MICROFOSSIL DATA
Interpretation of microfossil data arrays supplied can be digitally captured into integrated distribution charts along with ages and palaeoenvironments, especially important when linked to CCS/CCUS deployment.
Example:
Haplophragmoides sp. after Nwojiji et al. (2014)
RAW FOSSIL DATA ARRAYS
Microfossil data counts can be uploaded from spreadsheets and imported directly into StrataBugs®.
Quantitative or semi-quantitative data can be transposed.
Example: Data array as per Bankole et al. (2014)
Interpretative charts
Raw microfossil data can be converted into multifunctional graphic chart outputs using StrataBugs® allowing integration of data-sets including wirelines, lithologies geochemical, and age and sequence-reference data.
Example: First-pass data chart interpretation as per Nwojiji et al. (2014)
CCS/CCUS EXPERIENCE
Onus on sequestration of CO2 as a by product of many industrial processes supports a potential market whereby the safe storage of CO2 underground (Carbon Capture Storage or Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage) can be applied.
Biostratigraphers can help differentiate development-scale barriers and baffles to delineate flow (plume) units, extrapolated to exploration scale correlation to ensure significant volumes of CO2 can be safely handled.
Example: Sphenolithus heteromorphus
TRAINING COURSES
We deliver bespoke biostratigraphy training courses designed for variety of disciplines. Courses range from 1-3 days, and can cover fossil groups and how they are used, interpretation of ages and depositional environments, aspects of CCUS planning and the support of wellsite operational programs.
Types of Microfossils
Biostratigraphy is the science of interpreting an array of microfossils and placing them in chronostratigraphic order to provide ages associated with hydrocarbon drilled or field / outcrop samples.
Key microfossil groupings used to derive ages are micropalaeontology, calcareous nannoplankton and palynology.
Micropalaeontology utilises conventional fossil groups such as foraminifera, ostracods and radiolaria to provide insights into age and depositional / palaeobathymetric settings in mainly marine realms.
Calcareous nannoplankton often provides high-resolution age assignments linked to marine sediments.
Palynology provides age and palaeoenvironment references using both marine dinocysts and non-marine terrestrial spores and pollen.
Example:
Ctenolophonidites sp. (after Bankole et al. (2014)