Oil & Gas

Interpreted Formation Tops & Online Structure Contours

Conduct fast geological reconnaissance of key US basins.

How quickly and confidently can you assess a basin?

Interpreted Formation Tops & Online Structure Contours – covering nearly 861,000 US wells (9,000,000 Tops picks) – enable you to see a basin’s geological overview, understand its structure and stratigraphy, and create regional maps. Geologists, geophysicists, technologists and exploration managers can quickly and easily leverage these geologist-picked tops to:

Generate prospects faster using improved log correlations
Validate new and existing prospects against unbiased data and within a regional context
Map gross geologic structures using a consistent stratigraphic framework for an entire basin
Understand a basin’s depositional environment – trap components, source rock pathways, faults, domes and hydrocarbon maturation
Inform acquisition analysis

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What’s Included

Quickly understand the stratigraphic and structural geology of your area of interest with Interpreted Formations Tops data and Structure Contours. IHS Markit Interpreted Tops are constructed and verified by experienced geologists using loop-tied cross sections, delivering you the benefit of hundreds of “man years” invested in making geological correlations and well-by-well examinations.

Features include:

Files updated daily and delivered via Enerdeq/Web Services and tied to IHS Markit Well Data
Direct Connect into PETRA^®, Kingdom^® or other geological modeling applications for mapping gross geologic structures
New bench correlations in key plays
Hand-contoured maps with well spot data updated daily
Numerous Enerdeq Map layers: Faults, well locations, selected formation contours, land grid, culture information, topography maps and satellite imagery

Surface of the Wolfcamp generated with Interpreted Tops in Kingdom. © IHS Markit, 2018 (Click to enlarge image)

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