From innovations to integrating technologies

More than 15 years PANGEA has been working on projects in the geological modelling field, both in Russia and abroad. PANGEA's General Director, Valentin Kolesov tells about the complete range of products and services the company provides to its oil and gas clients.

PANGEA Inc. started in 1994 with innovative Multi-D Interpretation™ of geological and geophysical data, the first commercial technology allowing to simultaneously integrate in geological model the unlimited number of informative geophysical attributes.

Today PANGEA Inc. is a leading Russian G&G consultancy company and integrator of G&G services aiming at optimization of oil&gas exploration and development. Customer list includes GAZPROM, LUKOIL and more than 30 other Russian companies; more than 35 oil fields in China, Repsol (Spain), ONGC, GAIL and other Indian companies. More than 150 projects from seismic acquisition to reservoir modeling were successfully completed in Russia, India, Libya, Poland, Jordan, Vietnam, Myanma, Nigeria, Namibia, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan.

PANGEA combines industry standard tools and methodologies with breakthrough technologies based on the best Russian geoscience achievements. Multi-functional geoprofessional team and software developers with strong scientific and industry background in all G&G disciplines are working in Moscow headquarters and in processing&interpretation offices in Tyumen and Delhi. To provide the best solution of specific geological problems in specific settings we also cooperates with the most reputable Russian and local scientists and geophysical service companies.

PANGEA products include:

• Frontier territory analysis with NEDRA software.
• Seismic, TEM, gravity& magnetic, MT, surface geochemistry data acquisition, QC, processing and interpretation.
• Reservoir characterization and simulation, field development planning, EOR programs development.
• Technical and economical evaluation of oil&gas assets.
• The commercial software for G&G data processing, interpretation, basin analysis, production data analysis used by more than 50 companies in Russia, China, India

PANGEA's commercial software includes PROSPECT™ for advanced seismic processing and seismic velocity analysis and MDI™ software which is considered as best-in-the class software suite for exploration support and reservoir characterization. MDI™ suite includes ReView™ for standard and advanced interpretation of seismic data, including integrated interpretation of welllog and seismic data, Certainty™ for prospect generation and leads assessment using well data together with comprehensive set of seismic and non seismic maps and PetroExpert™ for petrophysical modeling and log data interpretation.

15 years of experience in various sedimentary basins allows PANGEA to propose and to provide the services using optimal combination of standard and innovative technologies which allow the customer to improve the results of any stage of exploration or development from new plays analysis to brown field development. Our customers also benefit from significant improvements in acquisition and QC services, high quality processing, interpretation and modeling. Most of oil&gas upstream companies working with PANGEA become our permanent clients which allow to apply our experience and technological achievements for optimization of geological risks of exploration and fields development.

PANGEA is the name for united continent which in Permian time integrated all the Earth's lands. PANGEA company integrates the most advanced technologies and the most advanced specialists to discover oil and gas deposits by integration of all geological and geophysical data allowing to improve Understanding Depth.

Valentin Kolesov is the General Director of PANGEA Inc. He has considerable experience in local and international G&G project management, geological and geophysical data interpretation and consultancy. He has been working in the oil and gas industry for over 15 years. Kolesov is the author of more than 30 scientific papers published in Russia and abroad, and 3 patents. Since 2003, he is an established expert of Russian State Committee for Natural Resources (GKZ) responsible for audition of geological models and reserves accounting.