Ian R Brown Associates Ltd has been involved in petroleum
projects since 1988, covering many of New Zealand's producing and prospective
basins and adjacent coalfields. Our expertise covers:
- regional geological, stratigraphic and reservior
compilation, prospectivity assessments
- design, technical supervision and management of seismic
acquisition, QA and management of seismic processing,
seismic interpretation using Kingdom Suite software
- preparation of well prognoses
- wellsite geology, including offshore and onshore wells,
deviated wells and high formation pressures; supervision of LWD, MWD,
wireline, coring, sampling and testing operations
- interpretation of pressure regimes, water chemistry,
geochemical data
- well completion report writing, preparation of composite logs,
and correlation diagrams
- landowner and iwi liaison, access agreements,
resource consents
- coal-bed methane resource evaluation
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Since 1996, IRBA have been involved in 17 wells in the East
Coast Basin, 1 well in the Wanganui Basin and over 20 wells in the Taranaki
Basin (including the Tui area oil discoveries of 2003-2004). The company
has also undertaken proprietary studies of the Canterbury and
South Taranaki - Wanganui
Basins, and completed coal-bed methane reviews of many coalfields in
both the North and South Islands.
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