History
About Applied Stratigraphix
We are a US-based consulting and training firm specializing in Structural Geology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphy and Sedimentology services for the oil and gas and mining industry. This includes consultation in fracture description and modeling, fault-seal analysis, seismic interpretation of structural styles, core description, seismic facies analyses, carbonate thin-section description, seismic interpretation, petrophysics, and exploration and development of shale plays. We have experts who specialize in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Contact us today for a free initial consultation on your sub-surface data.
Our locations
Our headquarters are twenty minutes away from downtown Denver and half an hour from the largest core facility in the United States. Or field office in Ouray allows us quick access to world-class outcrops in Utah and New Mexico.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is not to be the largest consulting firm, but to be your training and service provider of choice.
VISION
Since our inception we have tried to establish long-term relationships with our clients. It takes years to establish a reputation and our vision is to have life-long clients that trust us completely based on our track record.
SOME POINTS ABOUT SERVICE
- Globally Mobile:We have trained professionals worldwide – we have no geographic restrictions
- Safety:We have been accident free on all our field trips since the establishment of our company
- Environment:We ensure that no-one litters, and follow a ‘leave-no-trace’ policy on our field trips
- Respectful:We ensure we treat ALL our clients with the same respect, irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity or experience-level
- Affordable:We are not cheap, but very competitive. We strongly urge you to compare the cost of courses and field trips we offer with those of our competitors.
What makes us Different?
Professionalism
We are a group of consultants with a shared experience that spans over 20 countries and 60 oil and gas companies. All our consultants are multilingual and are used to working across cultural boundaries. All our consultants have either doctoral degrees or have over 30 years of industry experience.
Collaborative
We are part of a Geoscience Alliance in Colorado which allows us to offer expertise in areas well beyond sedimentology, stratigraphy and structural geology. Alliance members include iReservoir who provide seismic attribute, inversion, AVO, and geomodeling services, Borehole Image Specialists can tease out the sort of details most service providers cannot, Total Depth Geosteering can provide assistance not just in the US but overseas as well and Terra Chem Labs provide geochemistry lab services and oilfield solutions.
Efficiency
Unlike most of our competitors, we are a small company, and we use that to our advantage. We don’t deal with thousands of participants in hundreds of courses, and therefore you are not a statistic!
When you contact us, your e-mail is not answered by a secretary who has never met the CEO – its read and responded to by Dr. Jaffri, and that too within six hours.
Integrity
We understand data limitations and the technical capacity of our clients. Instead of turning this into your weakness by taking advantage of you and offering false expectations we will provide honest advice.
Our straightforward, 100% transparent business dealings, especially with companies in developing countries, set-us apart from most of our competitors.
MEET THE TEAM
Dr. Joshua Long is currently a geologist with the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) in Anchorage, Alaska. He began his work with the DGGS after completing a Mendenhall post-doctoral fellowship with the U.S. Geological Survey in their Alaska Petroleum Systems Group working on research related to the sedimentology and stratigraphy of Cretaceous and Cenozoic strata in the Colville Basin. He completed his PhD at Coastal Carolina University in marine science, his MS in geology at Northern Arizona University, and his BS in geology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also spent eight years with ConocoPhillips in Houston and Anchorage working in development, exploration, and subsurface technology roles. His current research focuses on the sedimentology, stratigraphy, and petroleum systems of Alaska, but maintains research interest in the Quaternary and modern depositional systems of the southeastern United States.
Dr. Josh Long
Dr. Lawrence Carter specialises in the formation of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits, with expertise in integrating macro-scale field observations with multiple layers of micro-scale textural, geochemical and geochronological data. His PhD focused on unravelling the archetypal Yerington porphyry system of Nevada, with publications including a Scientific Reports’ ‘Top 100’ of 2022. After this he gained Post-Doc research experience on the EU Horizon 2020 GREENPEG project, developing exploration tools for Li pegmatites before moving back into consultancy, offering exploration and applied research services. Prior to developing his expertise in magmatic-hydrothermal systems, Lawrence worked for BP in Operations, Wellsite, and Well Planning geology roles after completing an MSc in Mining Engineering and BSc in Applied Geology at Camborne School of Mines. He continue to provide exploration and research consultancy services to major-, mid-tier-, and junior-mining companies around the globe.
Dr. Lawrence Carter
Dr. Tim Demko has with 37 years of experience and is an industry expert in sedimentology and stratigraphy. He was a technical leader and advisor at ExxonMobil's research lab and has broad international experience in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas. Tim’s specialties are deep water sedimentology, unconventional resources, and outcrop and core characterization. Tim leads our field schools on deepwater petroleum systems in California, the Pyrenees and Tabernas-Sorbas Basin of Spain.
Dr. Tim Demko
Dr. Cédric John is a carbonate geologist with over 20 years of experience. His specialty includes geochemistry and diagenesis of carbonate rocks, forward stratigraphic modelling, and application of machine learning and deep-learning to geological and stratigraphic problems. He has conducted field research and field teaching in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Dr. John will be leading field trips to Oman and teaching in-house courses on carbonate diagenesis and machine learning.
Dr. Cedric John
Abbas Jaffri is our client-relations manager and has over 30 years of international business experience. He is also certified in Wilderness First Aid by the American Red Cross and serves as a safety and logistics officer on our field trips.
Abbas Jaffri
Dr. Karl Mueller is our structural geology expert and has led field trips to extensional systems for the oil and gas industry for the past 30 years. He did his PhD on the Basin and Range, and worked on strike slip faults in Death Valley and Baja California. He currently leads our Salt Tectonics field trip in Utah and a Death Valley field trip in California.
Dr. Karl Mueller
Randy Blood is our shale expert with 15 years of experience evaluating reservoir development in unconventional reservoirs, including organic-rich mudstone and tight sand. He specializes in using a holistic approach to incorporate litho- and sequence stratigraphy with organic and inorganic geochemistry data.
Randy Blood
Dr. Ali Jaffri is the CEO of Applied Stratigraphix LLC, has a doctorate in geology, and specializes in sequence stratigraphy. He has twenty-one years of experience and has trained over 500 professionals from over fifty companies in ten countries.
Dr. Ali Jaffri
Dr. Sven Egenhoff is our shale expert with a focus on sedimentology and diagenesis. Sven has twenty years of experience post-doctorate working worldwide on hydrocarbon-related problems, mostly onshore Sweden, Norway, continental US (Bakken and Woodford), and Bolivia, as well as offshore UK (Kimmeridge Clay) and is a top influencer of the industry’s understanding of mudrocks.
Dr. Sven Egenhoff
