Tigress is a software services and data management division of Geotrace. We provide advanced data management services and tightly integrated software interpretation applications to the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry.
Our signature product is Tigress, The Integrated Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering Software System. Continuously developed and refined since 1989, Tigress offers the industry the most tightly integrated data management and data interpretation system available.
Regional Areas
EU, USA, Latin America, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, South-Eastern Asia.
Areas of Activity
Data management solutions and interpretation software for exploration and production.
Key Projects
AGIP, Shell, Russneft, Slavneft and hundreds others.
Service Offering
1. E&P Data Management
Tigress Ltd has a wealth of experience in the area of data management. From the standard tasks of populating Tigress Oracle databases, to data transfer and data conversion, we have built up an excellent knowledge and toolkit to handle the typical challenges that face any exploration and production (E&P) outfit as it enters the data management domain.
We provide a range of skills and data management services including:
Data loading and data quality control (QC)
Tigress clients can outsource the data loading process to Tigress. This can be anything from one-off tasks, such as loading 2D and 3D seismic surveys or a set of well log data, to a full project building process, covering the whole spectrum of available E&P data.
Tigress was instrumental in much of the data loading and management of the recent ECL project in Iraq. We have been working on the super giant oil fields of Rumaila, and on the even larger Kirkuk field, which for much of its life has been the second largest oil-producing field in the world. Tigress staff have designed data gathering and data QC processes, working closely with the end clients and the Iraqi Oil Ministry to rapidly develop a robust and thorough data capture procedure. We have visited the Ministry in Baghdad, set up workstations and trained local staff to ensure a consistent data handling processes is in place and is used from the source right through to the end client.
Project management
Smaller clients find it cost-effective and convenient to outsource much of their project management to Tigress as a service contract. We will build, and maintain, master copies of the client’s databases, and offer an ongoing incremental data update service to track the development of the projects as more data become available. In conjunction with this we can help with data archiving, backup and restoration, and can provide excellent remote support for all aspects of the Tigress workflow.
Data conversion
Tigress can provide data conversion services for a wide variety of industry standard data types. We have built a direct link between the Tigress and OpenWorks databases, so that bidirectional bulk transfer of data can be used in project management. We also have an extensive GeoShare link capability using the latest POSC supported model, so data can be converted to and from a wide variety of sources, including GeoFrame databases. Other links handle data for systems like Geolog and Petrel.
2. Interpretation tools
We offer a comprehensive array of interpretative software products to help multi-discipline asset teams to rapidly evaluate field prospectivity, analyze drilling prospects and design development and production programs.
The Tigress application suite, combined with the Project Data Store (PDS), delivers a robust project data management and interpretation environment, which reduces project cycle time and cost while increasing project integrity and staff productivity. It sounds grand, but in short what it means is that you can continue to work in traditional integrated teams or on your own, where you have to cover many bases at once. The traditional application disciplines are outlined below.
Products
Tigress Geophysics
Tigress Geophysics provides a complete set of easily accessible applications for the interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data, and the generation of synthetic seismograms to tie in geological models. These tools, coupled with 3D visualisation and time/depth modelling, provide an integrated approach for the geoscientist. Results of the interpretation are saved to the Project Data Store for use in the other Tigress modules.
Tigress Geology
Tigress Geology allows you to model the chrono, litho and fluid stratigraphy of the reservoir, using multi-well, multi-level zonations, and correlation and cross-section interpretations. Tigress Geophysics, Tigress Petrophysics and Tigress Mapping data are integrated to accurately model the well and inter-well areas.
Application hot links with Tigress Petrophysics applications, Cross Plot, Histogram and Cluster Analysis can be used to define finer facies and lithology zonations using core and log data. Zone thicknesses can be generated from the finished zonation and then passed to Tigress Mapping along with zone top and bottom depths for gridding as part of the structural modelling process. Results of the interpretation are saved to the Project Data Store for use in the other Tigress modules.
Tigress Petrophysics
Tigress Petrophysics allows you to characterize the reservoir by analysing log, core and formation test data. The module provides a comprehensive set of applications for log and core data manipulation and correction, parameter calculation and log analysis for both open- and cased-hole logs. Both input and output data can then be zonally averaged for use in mapping. An automatic audit trail records all processes, so that analyses can be easily rerun using the latest input data or parameters. Data templates and pictures (‘snap shots’) mean that loading and retrieving data sets is simple and quick.
Advanced reservoir characterisation programs are available to assist in zonal analyses, and the user can build, or link to, customised programming routines for further analysis.
Tigress Mapping
Tigress Mapping allows you to model the structural and lithological properties of the reservoir spatially. Geophysical, geological and petrophysical data can all be integrated to construct an accurate reservoir volumetric model. Colour basemaps can be built easily, incorporating spatial data from across the PDS. Complex arithmetic or logical operations can be performed on data using standard or user defined equations, the results of which can be used in the volumetric model. Volumetric calculations can be performed on the model with results being reported in a choice of units and on an area by area basis. The static model can be passed to Tigress Simulation as the basis for the fluid flow simulation model.
Tigress Engineering
Tigress Engineering lets production engineers monitor the construction and production history of a well, and reservoir engineers model reservoir behaviour using pressure test measurements and the results of laboratory fluid experiments. Results from pressure analysis and black oil and compositional fluid analysis are used directly within Tigress Simulation to model fluid flow.
Tigress Simulation
Tigress Simulation provides a wide range of analysis techniques for black oil, compositional and EOR simulation including thermal modelling, with gas condensate and dual porosity options. Both IMPES and fully implicit time stepping methods are supported for 1D, 2D and 3D models. A unique strength is the use of the integrated project database as the focal point for the compilation and management of the sequence of models required in a simulation study. No keyword files are necessary as all data is stored in the database. The architecture of the Tigress Simulation module allows the use of third party simulators such as Eclipse, Chears, SURE and Falcon MPP.
Tigress Production Data Management and Analysis
Tigress Production Data Management and Analysis (PUMA) is used for the analysis, manipulation and easy visualisation of recent and historical production data. The application performs all of the typical objectives of reservoir performance analysis and forecasting, including:
- estimation of original hydrocarbons in place
- analysis of past and present performance
- prediction of future performance under current conditions
- estimation of reserves and recovery rates under various conditions
- updating of analysis with new data during life of field.
Advanced plotting and reporting tools provide excellent templates for the creation of high quality output.
Contact Details
UK office
Tigress Limited
Anglers Court
33-44 Spittal Street
Marlow
Buckinghamshire
SL7 1DB
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1628 402 400
Fax: +44 (0)1628 475 799
Email: info@tigress.ru
Sales: sales@tigress.ru
Russian office
Tigress Ingeoservice
3 Sakko Street
Tyumen 625000
Russia
Telephone: +7 3452 595025
Fax: +7 3452 595025