Enhance your subsurface models with improved geological insight

Confidently manage depositional uncertainty—even with limited data.

Geological model visualization

Subsurface decisions often rely on sparse, incomplete data

Early interpretation errors propagate through projects with ever increases costs

Problems from poor depositional characterisation

How can Sedbase help you?

Use advanced tools to help you characterize shallow marine and fluvial environments while handling uncertainty

Enhance facies interpretations with decision-support systems that integrate image atlases.

Improve depositional predictions for unsampled areas between wells by incorporating depositional hierarchy.

Sedbase characterization interface showing grid-based analysis tools

Develop stronger conceptual depositional models by accessing rich analogue datasets.

Incorporate greater geological realism into your static model designs.

Make more informed decisions about the deterministic and stochastic components of your facies modeling.

Sedbase analogue dataset interface showing geological modeling tools

Access data to support stochastic modeling algorithms

Retrieve dimensional parameters for object-based modeling by architectural unit types.

Explore interactive maps that can serve as training images for MPS modeling.

Sedbase data analysis interface with charts and graphs

Develop conceptual depositional models in our integrated digital whiteboard

Compile and organize data from Sedbase and other sources

Sketch and brainstorm conceptual depositional models and modeling scenarios

Sedbase data analysis interface with charts and graphs

Attend our annual training webinars – always free for members

Enjoy 12 hours of expert-led instruction exploring the natural variability of shallow marine and fluvial depositional architectures—and their impact on the subsurface.

Gain practical, hands-on experience with Sedbase to enhance your workflow and interpretation skills.

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Problems from poor depositional characterisation
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Key product features

Interpret facies environments in cored wells

Make depositional interpretations based on process, lithofacies, and ichnogenera observations.

Take advantage of integrated image atlases

View examples of lithofacies, ichnogenera, and facies models exactly when needed.

Predict environments away from cored wells

Consider possible environments in inter-well areas based on depositional hierarchies.

Explore analogues via interactive maps

Use live maps to select preferred views and use grid views to compare multiple analogs.

Apply advanced data filtering

Use the dashboard to combine multiple filters and retrieve precisely the data you need.

Access extensive analogue and dimensional datasets

Includes hundreds of system-level analogues and thousands of channel, channel-belt, and mouth-bar dimensions.

Explore dimensional data through interactive charts

View dynamically updated histograms, box plots, and scatter plots based on selected filters.

Develop conceptual models in an integrated whiteboard

Compile data, brainstorm ideas, and draft preliminary models while using our applications.

Work across multiple depositional hierarchy levels

Choose the most appropriate architectural scale for your specific objective.

Industry-based solutions

Hydrocarbons

Exploration:

Enhance prospect generation and reduce risk in volume estimates by leveraging regional depositional analogues.

Appraisal, development, and production:

Improve reservoir models by characterizing depositional environments and utilizing analogue and dimensional data.

Carbon sequestration

Storage and containment:

Make more robust storage capacity and top seal assumptions from limited data by applying insights from regional depositional analogues.

Injectivity:

Ensure sufficient injection rates by characterizing the subsurface architecture near injection wells through analog-based environmental and dimensional analysis.

Hydrogeology

Contaminant transport:

Improve predictions of plume migrations by refining interval architecture in groundflow models using analogue and dimensional data sources.

Groundwater systems:

Strengthen groundwater resource management by incorporating insights from depositional analogues from similar geological environments.

Why choose Sedbase:

Backed by over 15 years of data collection and product development

Built by experts in shallow-marine and fluvial systems

Trusted by major multinational organizations

Secure by design, running on a modern, fully cloud-native tech stack

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