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Geoscience Consulting
Canadian Discovery, purchased by Rakhit Petroleum Consulting Ltd. in 2005, brings over 25 years of expertise to the table. Canadian Discovery and partners have conducted worldwide reservoir to basin scale studies for junior, financial and super-major organizations. Services include:

Geology and Geophysics

• Resource play expertise
• Exploration and development prospecting
• Identification and mapping of depositional facies
• Geophysical interpretation
• Reservoir characterization
• Log and core-based high resolution stratigraphy
• Structural geology

Acquisitions and Divestitures

• Corporate/property evaluations
• Corporate divestiture management
• Upside assessment - conventional and unconventional

Hydrodynamics Expertise

• Unconventional gas resource identification
• Petroleum systems and migration modelling
• Charge, flushing and tilted oil/water contacts
• Fluid chemistry, geothermics and biodegradation
• Reservoir continuity and fluid contacts
• Pore pressure prediction

Integrated Geotechnical Work

• Petrology, sedimentology and petrophysics
• Geopressure analysis and prediction
• Stress, geomechanical and tight rock analysis
• Aquifer characterization and CO2 sequestration
• Hydrochemistry

Multi-Client Projects
As part of our commitment to provide a competitive advantage for our clients, Canadian Discovery conducts ongoing research and development. Multi-client projects, launched from internally generated ideas, are conducted to investigate emerging opportunities, while also addressing a variety of challenges faced by exploration companies.

Much of our strength lies in our experience and ability to integrate geology, hydrodynamics, geochemistry, petrophysics, sedimentology and geophysics. Previous multi-client work has:

• Provided new play concepts in mature North American basins (i.e., for unconventional gas resources).
• Reduced exploration risks such as charge and flushing in relatively immature basins like the Oriente in Ecuador and the Murzuq in Libya.
• Delivered unparalleled guidance in developing resource plays such as the Bakken and Montney in Western Canada.