Sunstone Energy Advisory Services (SEAS)

Experts providing geoscience services for oil & gas investment and international growth. We promote technical excellence and sound decision-making. A team of world-class oil-finders - over 6BBOE discovered.

What We Do

 
Technical Evaluation, regional maps

Technical Evaluation

Provide integrated subsurface studies and evaluations, including source rock evaluation, reservoir characterization, prospect mapping, volumetric assessment, risk/uncertainty analysis and economics.

Seismic Interpretation, asset evaluation

Acquisition & Divestment

Perform regional context studies, petroleum system analysis, prospect evaluation and volumetrics. Supporting new prospect inventory development, as well as farm-in and farm-out evaluations and negotiations. 

Portfolio Optimization - Guyana & Suriname acreage

Portfolio Optimization

Optimize investment strategies in terms of cost, volumes/reserves and resources. Also providing divestment options, exit strategies and pivot considerations.

Tectonostratigraphy - East Java basin

Process & Governance

Evaluate technical assurance capabilities, identifying opportunities to optimize skills and workflows. Propose organizational optimization, staffing & talent management.

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Why Choose Us?

50+ basins - Extensive mapping experience in West Africa, South America, Asia Pacific and North America

20+ subject matter experts in Calgary and Houston

25+ years experience for each key professional, leveraging relationships with a number of IOCs (ExxonMobil, Total, BP, Hess, Equinor, etc)

15+ years working in Asia Pacific, partnering with CNOOC, Sinopec, CPC, BP Migas, etc

Our Key Achievements

We are a team of world-class oil-finders with proven results: Guyana Project (Discovery & Development) 2013-17 – 6+ Billion barrels recoverable oil discovered

Seismic interpretation - prospect mapping

> 240kbpd (net) added commercial volume production with a focus on cost <$35/bbl breakeven

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Liwan / Liuhua fields exploration, appraisal and development in South China Sea (Discovery 2006)

Regional mapping South America and West Africa

> 200 Farm-ins/Farm-outs evaluations International licensing rounds.

High impact wells - exploration drilling

Drilled over 30 High Impact wells world-wide (Guyana, Congo/Angola, Nigeria, Gulf of Mexico, Indonesia, China)

Our Team

 
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Regis Drevet

Founder, Seismic Interpretation, Deep-water Seismic Stratigraphy - France

25 years of experience in Senior Management and technical roles in Exploration, Business Development and New Ventures. He completed a series of successful acquisitions of acreage and assets and conducted major exploration projects, discovering over 6 billion barrels during his career. Drilled over 30 high-impact wells. Negotiated production sharing agreements in West Africa, Iraq and South America with an oil & gas start-up. Led complex acquisition and divestment negotiations of assets. 

Broad experience in different basins:  Angola/Congo, Nigeria, Iraq, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines), Gulf of Mexico, East coast Canada, Alaska, pre-salt Brazil, Senegal, Guyana. Identified and drilled the Guyana discoveries (2013-2017). Participated in successful exploration programs in Guyana, Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, Angola/Congo & France. Critical in initiating and negotiating new acreage and opportunities in Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Iraq, Senegal and Congo.

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Stacey Hrycak

Geophysical Expert, QI, Acquisition & Processing – Canada

Over 25 years of management and technical experience in Geophysical Interpretation, Quantitative Interpretation, Seismic Operations, Volumetrics & Risk Evaluation and Petroleum Geology. He has worked in a variety of basins and settings in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Western Canada, and East Coast Canada.

Key to the discovery of Husky Energy’s China deep-water LH34-2 and LH29-1 fields proximal to the Liwan field. Directly involved in the early exploration, seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation of Husky’s large deep-water Taiwan Block and successful shallow-water Indonesia Madura Strait Block.

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Ugur Erkmen

Petroleum System Analysis Expert & Petroleum Geology – Turkey

Over 40 years experience in petroleum system analysis and exploration geology. He has worked in a variety of basins and settings:  Indonesia, Turkey, Western Canada, Libya, South China Sea, Taiwan, East Coast Canada involving both clastic and carbonate reservoirs.

He was a key player in the Exploration & Development program that led to Husky’s gas fields in the Madura Straits, Indonesia. Previously, Chief Geologist for a large Operator in Libya.

Expertise & Skillsets

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20+ subject-matter experts based in Calgary and Houston:

Seismic Interpretation - Regional Mapping & Basin architecture, CRS mapping, prospect generation, detailed prospect mapping

Quantitative Geophysics - Rock properties, AVO, Seismic Inversion

Seismic Acquisition & Processing - Onshore & Offshore 2D & 3D Acquisition operations, Processing QA/QC

Carbonate Stratigraphy - Sedimentology & Core Description, Sequence Stratigraphy

Deep-water Stratigraphy - Sedimentology & Core description, Sequence Stratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphy

Petroleum Systems - Geochemistry, 1D & 3D basin Modeling

Petrophysics - Clastic & carbonate, Petrography

Reservoir Engineering & Economics - Onshore & Offshore Development - FDP, Feed, FID, EOR recovery heavy oil & Unconventional

Geomechanics - 3D geomechanical modelling, rock mechanics, borehole stability, sand production modeling

Facilities Engineering - Offshore facilities design & concept, FPSO design & concept, cost estimate reviewing,

Drilling & Completions - Offshore Drilling, Deep-water drilling, well architecture review, cost estimate review, conventional & unconventional completion design, sand production mitigation

SEAS consultants expertise : geology, geophysics, seismic interpretation, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, reservoir modelling, geomechanics, drilling & completions, CCUS & CCS - expertise & skills available