Data evaluation

Integrated data evaluation combines a number of technologies used to predict hydrocarbons, characterise reservoirs and improve the development of oil and gas fields throughout the exploration and production life cycle. It integrates the work of geophysicists, petrophysicists, geologists and engineers based in central technology teams. These experts use seismic and well logging data, as well as the results from core and fluid sample analyses, to provide critically important information for evaluation and asset teams around the world.

Shell has been a world leader in the development of quantitative interpretation (QI) since the 1960s, when Shell geologists identified oil and gas directly on seismic data. Shell invests in substantial research and development in this area and continues to improve the description of reservoirs using seismic data.

The main objectives of integrated evaluation are to find hydrocarbons and predict their commercial amounts and also to predict the quality and quantity of the oil or gas field. This methodology can also help with safe drilling and can provide information about the later expected gas and oil production.

Integrated evaluation techniques are particularly useful in regions such as deep water environments. They have played a major role as Shell has developed its capabilities in this challenging environment.

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