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Reservoir Associates International: consulting portfolio

U.K. Carboniferous: regional modelling of Dinantian and Namurian plays in northwest England and adjacent offshore areas; semi-regional assessment of Namurian, Westphalian and Barren Red prospectivity in the southern North Sea; pre-development reservoir-modelling and simulation studies of fluvial architecture and connected volumes.

U.K. southern North Sea Rotliegendes: licence-round assessments of marginal plays in the vicinity of the Silverpit Lake, multiple exploration and development studies, field and regional appraisals and field-management/reserve-optimization studies.

U.K. Triassic: acquisition of geologically-constrained parameters for simulation modelling of aeolian and fluvial strata; exploration modelling of reservoir distribution in the Wessex Basin and adjacent offshore areas.

U.K. west of Shetland: licence-round assessment of the potential of middle/upper Jurassic clastics in the Solan Basin and well studies of Triassic and upper Jurassic/lower Cretaceous prospects.

France: geological assessment of the offshore and onshore Aquitaine Basin, development of source-reservoir models and identification of exploration leads.

Portugal: review of the petroleum potential of the northern Lusitanian Basin and the geology and structural development of the Oporto Basin using analogue data from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and other Atlantic-margin basins; development of seismically-constrained source-reservoir-seal models, delineation of prospects and drilling locations and post-well studies.

Italy: modelling of subsurface and regional data from a Miocene flysch basin in the Apennines, identification of sand fairways and assessment of potential for stratigraphic trapping.

Poland: exploration studies of deep Rotliegendes and Zechstein potential in the Central Polish Trough and adjacent areas.

Siberia: exploration studies of arc-related volcaniclastic potential reservoirs in the Taymyr and Kamchatka peninsulas; development modelling of shoreface reservoir systems for an oil accumulation in the Middle Ob region.

Algeria: multiple exploration and development studies as below.

 Exploration studies of Siluro-Devonian, Carboniferous and Triassic strata in the Ghadâmes-Illizi  (Berkine) Basin, including reconstructions of local basin configuration and structural controls on sedimentation patterns, assessment of sealing potential and constrained modelling of fluvial architecture based on field data acquired from the Tassili externe and In Amenas areas.

 Multiple sedimentological, petrological and reservoir-modelling studies of the Trias argilo-gréseux in the Ghadâmes-Illizi Basin.

 Technical appraisals of producing, Triassic gas fields in the northern Oued Mya Basin and of Cambro-Ordovician prospects in the area of the Hassi Messaoud Arch.

 Assessment of Cambro-Ordovician to Triassic reservoir continuity and potential in the Khalef Depression and Touggourt Saddle areas to the north of the Hassi Messaoud-El Agreb Arch; semi-regional modelling of the Grès d'Atchane and Quartzites de Hamra.

  Pre-acquisition studies of Ordovician reservoir prospectivity in the Ahnet-Timimoun areas and of the Quartzites de Hamra in the vicinity of the Hassi Messaoud Arch.

Tunisia:  field-team management, surface-geology studies and structural mapping of exploration permits in the southern Sahara to constrain near-surface seismic-velocity models and subsurface fault geometries; petrological studies of Palaeozoic- to Triassic-aged potential reservoirs.

Libya:  surface-geology structural analysis and rock-deformation studies in the Jabal Akhdar area to the north of the Cyrenaica Platform.

Mozambique: regional studies of the exploration potential of the Domo, Sena and Lower Grudja formations and development of exploration plays in the Temane and Inhambane areas.

Western Madagascar: field-team management and field-based exploration studies of Sakamena and Isalo (Karoo) continental reservoirs in the Morondava Basin; development of basin-fill and structural models.

Gabon and Cameroon: development/production modelling of reservoirs in pre- and post-salt producing fields; well studies of lower Cretaceous fan-delta-fed turbidite reservoirs, pre-Gamba continental sequences, late Cretaceous deep-sea fan systems and Plio-Miocene deposits of the palaeo-Niger delta front.

Guinea Bissau: new-venture and exploration studies of the offshore Cretaceous potential reservoir system.

Mauritania: seismic-stratigraphic modelling of potential reservoir development in deep-water acreage of the northern coastal basin.

Australia: studies of lower Jurassic fluvial reservoir systems, hydrodynamic modelling and assessment of deeper exploration potential in an onshore permit of the Perth Basin; exploration studies of the offshore Abrolhos Basin in western Australia and development studies of Palaeocene fluvio-deltaic and marginal-marine systems in the Bass Basin.

Chlorite research: co-ordination of industry-sponsored research into the origin and geochemistry of chlorite cements in a Rotliegendes producing field complex of the U.K. southern North Sea, their impact on reservoir prospectivity and exploration significance.

Illite research: co-ordination of industry-sponsored research into the origin and geochemistry of illite cements in a Rotliegendes producing field of the U.K. southern North Sea; development of a predictive diagenetic model for designing infill-drilling strategies.

In addition to the above, studies have been completed on data from Botswana, Czechoslovakia, Ghana, the Gulf of Guinea, offshore Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, the Philippines, the Republic of South Africa, the Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, the Yemen and Zimbabwe.

 Further information may be obtained from:

Dr Lou Macchi,

Reservoir Associates International, Laburnum House, Shocklach, Cheshire SY14 7BT, U.K.

Tel: +44 1829 250562, fax: +44 1829 250444