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Areas Of Expertise
Often as an adjunct to our routine interpretation reports, IGI has developed specialist expertise in a number of areas relevant to both petroleum and minerals exploration. IGI personnel have often made conference presentations or published on these topics.
Based on over 25 years of consulting, IGI claims particular expertise in understanding the following geological situations:
- Prospectivity in areas of tectonic inversion, where palinspastic reconstruction is required prior to maturity, generation and migration modelling
- Prospectivity in areas of marginal maturity where novel kerogens and enhanced expulsion may lead to commerciality
- Petroleum systems developed during the early rifting phases of passive margins, their organofacies and deep water source rocks
- Oil charge in halokinetically distorted basins and resulting irregular maturity kitchens and oil migration paths
- Geothermics and geometry in mountain fronts and other thrust zones where tectonic burial dominates maturation and migration
- Petroleum prospectivity in convergent plate margins, source rock depositional models & heat flow
- Hydrocarbon charging in high latitudes, permafrost effects on maturation and trapping by gas hydrates
- Tectonic controls on prospectivity including source rock deposition, expulsion, migration, entrapment and intra-reservoir degradation
- The use of organics in mineral exploration, with emphasis on quantifying hydrothermal effects on organics and the influence of organics on mineral paragenesis
- The use of molecular geochemistry to deconvolute oil mixtures and understand field filling and biodegradation processes
As a company stimulated by the unusual, do contact us if you need help to understand a complex organic-related problem.