E&P · Neuquén basin & Americas · Four live tools
Argentina's well registry publishes 13.5 months late, and the subsurface never gets published at all. Four tools cover that window: SecEnergía records, Sentinel-1 radar and satellite imagery.
What it solves
Lateral length, spacing, well density, parent-child strategy, or what a block is worth: the underlying question is what the rest of the basin is doing, and how it is paying off. Per-well production, Arps fits and type wells by block and operator, ready to set against your own. One of two sites here kept current; the rest of the portfolio is a snapshot frozen at end-2024.
With the registry running 13.5 months behind, the tail of the series looks like an activity collapse that never happened. Night-lights cover that blind window: they confirm 71% of 20,178 known well events and estimate the missing ones at ROC-AUC 0.85 for drilling and 0.91 for fracking. At 500 m resolution the unit is the pad cluster, not the well.
What shears a casing is not subsidence but the difference in subsidence between two nearby points, and the map locates those edges. Two adjacent leases move as mirror images for seven years: the one injecting rises 80 mm, the one producing sinks 80 mm. It measures movement, not cause.
Banks and funds ask for emissions intensity, and that number shouldn't depend on the counterparty declaring it. 113 flares detected and 2.4 Mt of CO₂ in 2024, attributed by lease and divided by declared production: between 2.1 and 31.9 kg of CO₂ per barrel of oil equivalent depending on the operator. Methane is measured basin-wide; attributing it by company isn't possible yet.
To work out what each satellite can and cannot see before commissioning anything: visual guide with a 3D globe.
How the work goes
Always in the same order: the decision first, then the tool.
Your question: the finding, how far it can be pushed, and the sources to redo the arithmetic.
A tool like the ones above or a larger project, with your data inside and the team it takes.
Which data is worth buying, which is already public, and what can be measured without instrumenting the field.
A first call, a proposal with a mockup within the week, scope to match: how the work goes.
Who's behind this
Matías Podeley. An ITBA engineer, eighteen years in energy: four in operations in Neuquén, simulation of giant fields like Camisea, appraisal of petrochemical projects, technical backing of asset purchases above US$ 300 million, and five years teaching project appraisal. The craft behind this site: understanding the business need, and building the project or the tool that answers it, with AI and auditable sources. Buenos Aires.
Eighteen years of reservoirs and development, with the fields named: profile.
matias@podeley.ar · Buenos Aires