IHS Studies - U.S.

• 2005 Update: Deep Shelf Gulf of Mexico Production Performance Analogs - The newest Deep Shelf GOM fields are outperforming their older peers. Are operators drilling smarter, finding better fields, or both?
  Our August 2005 update provides some insights, relating the new high performers to “target sands of choice” in the Shelf as defined by facies. By combining production performance analysis, well logs and new seismic stratigraphy techniques developed by Fairfield Industries, our study team of experts from PetroSolutions, Ltd., was able to correlate facies with production behavior across 29 new fields. The findings: certain combinations of depositional settings and facies posted higher performance by an order of magnitude.

• Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Production Performance Study - Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Production Performance Study Reveals Increase in Completed Gas Wells, Accelerated Rates of Extraction. Our 2004 upgrade to our landmark Gulf of Mexico Study adds significant insights for multi-disciplinary teams looking for top-performing depositional environments in the deepwater. Designed to be used by engineers and geoscientists, as well as M&A strategy teams and new ventures executives, this comprehensive study delivers a new modeling technique to identify deepwater depositional environments across the play, giving you the industry's most detailed knowledge set of log profiles associated with GOM sheet sands, channel levees and channel sands.

• Deep Shelf Gulf of Mexico Production Performance Study - More than ever, the Deep Shelf offers promising business opportunities to operators of all sizes. Royalty relief, a solid midstream infrastructure, and large potential reserves support a number of both long-term and quick-to-market strategies – if you can manage the technical risks. Until now, it’s been difficult to differentiate some of the Shelf’s best producers from expensive dry holes using seismic alone. And the Shelf’s compartmentalized reservoirs have frustrated attempts at optimized field planning.

• North American Gas Business Model - IHS's North American Gas Business Model gives you a complete and accurate picture of the North American gas supply-demand balance. A comprehensive package of essential information, intuitive software and a compilation of analyses performed by our own team of gas industry experts - the Model provides the tools to integrate the complex matrix of information required to understand and capture the greatest value in the North American gas market.