Basin Monitors
Fast, one-stop screening for basin potential and strategic fit.
In just an hour or two or even a few minutes if you have used one before, our Basin Monitors allow you to review the critical petroleum system concepts and selected E&P metrics of a single basin, lending confidence to your initial risk/reward assessment of farm-in or bid-round opportunities.
Consistently formatted for easy reference, Basin Monitors place the commercial history of the basin in context and can save you weeks of gathering published geological data.
Test drive a Basin Monitor today
- You can now order IHS Basin Monitors online through our new online shop. More than 380 petroliferous basins are available — delivered in a ready-to-read, interactive CD format.
- See for yourself - fill in our online form to download a free sample Basin Monitor.
- Get a short guided tour of a Basin Monitor, illustrating methods for conducting fast, complete initial screening of a basin.
- Click on the map at the bottom of this page to see a list of available Basin Monitors for your area of interest.
Each Basin Monitor contains between 80 and 150 pages of detailed analysis and summaries written by experts with work experience in the basin. Other features include up-to-the-minute plots and statistics drawn from IHS's comprehensive E&P Database.
Content includes key play concepts, exploration successes and failures, and technology approaches that worked, or didn't work. Reports also include the latest statistics to provide metrics for benchmarking the basin's exploration attractiveness: for example, 2D and 3D seismic density, exploration well drilling density, and area's under contract.
Subscribers to the IHS Basins Database can create their own Basin Monitor at any time, with just a few button clicks.
Basin Monitor Contents
- Petroleum system description and assessment, including extensive maps and diagrams
- Key plays, with estimated reserves potential
- E&P historical summary, covering operators, play concept successes and failures, and required technologies
- Up-to-the-minute charts of selected E&P statistics, such as seismic coverage by year and field size distribution, providing metrics to measure basin maturity, or compare your company's minimum field size requirements
- Extensive bibliography
- Consistent report format

We are continually enhancing our Basin Monitor Database. Listed below are the very latest reviews:
| Basin Name |
|
Region |
| Ahnet basin |
|
Africa |
| Bight Basin |
|
Australasia |
| Jiza-Qamar basin |
|
Middle East |
| Maracaibo basin |
|
Latin America |
| Midland Valley graben |
|
Europe |
| Moscow Basin |
|
CIS |
| Northwest Ireland Carboniferous Basin |
|
Europe |
| Northwest Ireland Offshore Basin |
|
Europe |
| Oued Mya basin |
|
Africa |
| Pearl River Mouth Basin |
|
Far East |
| Pontides Province |
|
Middle East |
| Pripyat Basin |
|
CIS |
| Sayun-Masila Basin |
|
Middle East |
| South Carnarvon Basin |
|
Australasia |
| South Yellow Sea Basin |
|
Far East |
| Taranaki Basin |
|
Australasia |
| Timimoun basin |
|
Africa |