Lens Subsurface
Build and manage resilient portfolios, starting with exploration
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Integrated commercial and technical data for key portfolio insights
Designed to help you identify advantaged barrels and validate investment decisions, Lens Subsurface provides comprehensive and focused global subsurface data for exploration and resource development teams.
It is underpinned by the unique integration of commercial and technical data, delivering the insights needed to build and manage portfolios to stay resilient and sustainable through the energy transition.
Features and workflows
Global subsurface data supporting workflows across the upstream value chain from acreage access, through exploration, development and production.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Subsurface:
- Exploration benchmarking.
- Play analysis.
- Prospect valuations
- Resource optimisation.
- Analogue finding.
- Production and recovery factor benchmarking.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Subsurface provides data on:
- Technical data including reservoir characteristics, well formation tops, well test and target data. This is sourced, curated and maintained by a permanent, dedicated team of geologists and geoscientists.
- Commercial data includes blocks, fields, wells, resources and infrastructure.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Subsurface enables a number of key workflows including:
- Opportunity screening – integrate historical activity, commercial performance data, EUR/well data, acreage intelligence, planned wells and exploration data to identify advantaged investment options
- Competitor analysis - understand the strategies of explorers and how and where the best explorers are achieving their success
- Basin analysis - uncover the geological history and petroleum systems of key basins; discover play-based analysis on Exploration performance and forecasts
- Play analysis – discover the spatial extent and subsurface properties of key conventional plays. Analyse discovery histories and the value and risks associated with the yet-to-find resource potential
- Prospect analysis – screen and benchmark subsurface data and development characteristics
- NEW Prospect valuations – discover the geological context, development value and potential carbon emissions associated with prospective resources
- NEW Analogues – Synoptic enabled workflow using AI to rank similarity using both technical and commercial parameters to find suitable analogues to plays, prospects and discoveries
- Recovery factor analysis – validate new discoveries and identify under-utilised resources using recovery factor outliers
- Download GIS spatial datasets – for integration with your in-house data and systems
Why choose WoodMac's Lens Subsurface?
- Renowned quality from embedded industry relationships
- Ongoing access to a dedicated team of analysts
- All aspects of global subsurface data covered including geo-technical and commercial
- Built from the bottom up, asset by asset. Verified
- Historical data for more accurate modelling
- Enhanced granularity and weekly updates – timely and most relevant analysis
- Truly integrated platform – all Lens solutions are aligned and accessible through the same interface
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Subsurface. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Use the Lens Direct bulk download APIs to pull down data in GIS-ready formats.
You get direct access to our expert subsurface analysts located around the world, who have developed unrivalled knowledge of the sector and regions they cover.
Their strong, established relationships with industry contacts takes our research to a more detailed level, where we can ask the right questions to get to the answers that matter. And they are always available to share their unique perspective with you.
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Lens data, analysis and integrated workflows cover all sectors across the integrated natural resources value chain. Whether you’re evaluating global upstream oil and gas assets or analysing projects in clean energy, we’ve got you covered.
