
Play Evaluations
Services
With over 12 years of experience in hydrocarbon exploration and development across Western Canada, our staff has the expertise to complete full-scale evaluations for both conventional and unconventional play types.
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Implementing a highly detailed, innovative workflow, Speers Edge maximizes output, while reducing project duration and capital requirements, through the creation of play based, digital databases and dashboards.
The ability to complete comprehensive technical play evaluation, which is grounded on unbiased analysis and research, while implementing sound business sense is one of the greatest strengths for Speers Edge.

Mineral Land Analysis
Delivering the most accurate representation of current mineral land holdings spanning the play fairway through the creation of land acquisition history encompassing:
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​Historic & Present Land Valuations
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Offset Competitor Holdings
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Open/Available Acreage
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Landsale Monitoring
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Mineral Lease Expires
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Top Leasing Programs

Geologic Mapping
Geologic assessment of depositional variability, encountered across the entire play fairway, through the creation of comprehensive map sets derived from detailed analysis including:
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Core Petrography
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Drilling Attributes
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Drill Cuttings Petrography
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Mineralogy
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Seismic Interpretation
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Sequence Stratigraphy

Reservoir Quality
Characterizing and delineating observed reservoir variations through scrupulous integration of detailed analysis derived from multiple sources including:
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Conventional Core Analysis
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Porosity, Permeability​
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Petrophysical Analysis
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Special Core Testing
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Rock-Eval Pyrolysis, XRD
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Well Tests
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​Flow Tests, DST​
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Reservoir Attributes
Deriving key insights relating to reservoir variations observed across the entire play fairway, through incorporation of testing and analysis encompassing:
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Bottom-Hole Pressure Gradients
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Fluid Composition
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Free Liquid Ratio
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Gas Composition
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Volumetrics & Recovery
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Wet Gas Index Ratio
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Completion & Stimulation
Formulating optimal stimulation strategies through comprehensive offset research and analysis to provide statistically definable evidence for completion and pumping variables including:
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Down-Hole Completion System
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Frac Spacing
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Proppant Type/Concentration
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Soak Duration
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Stimulation Fluids
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Treating/Breakdown Pressures

Production Analysis
Employing a probabilistic approach to production forecasting, stressing data quality control via unbiased, statistical analysis to ensure accuracy and precision associated with:
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Analog Well Selection
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Cumulative Probability Distributions
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Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR)
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Initial Production Rate (IP)
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Type Curve Generation


