Founded in 1980, Discovery GeoServices Corporation (“DGSC”) is a highly experienced oil and gas exploration consulting firm. Through its president, Michael (“Mike”) Lewis, the company has played a principle role in several major discoveries and developments, including the initiation of the Middle Bakken Play in Montana with Lyco Energy Corporation and the Lower Paleozoic shales in the Baltic Basin (Poland) with 3Legs Resources plc. With the “boom” in unconventional reservoir types (shale, CBM, fractured carbonates, tight sandstones, etc.), DGSC is applying its experience into frontier areas in Europe and North America.
Discovery provides geological services like prospect generation, evaluation, selection and support, but also has a long history with oil and gas operations.
HISTORY
Discovery was formed in December 1980 to provide wellsite geological support for various operators in the North Texas area. Seizing the opportunity of those “boom times”, Discovery rapidly expanded into drilling and operating, with over 500 wells in its care by 1985. The firm drilled several new field discoveries, from south Texas to the Williston Basin.
From 1986 through 1988, Discovery focused primarily on research and development of oil and gas potential in the fractured Mancos Shale with Gary Williams Company in the San Juan Basin and the Mission Canyon on the eastern flank of the Williston Basin, both of which resulted in successful drilling. The company focused primarily on the Williston Basin from 1993 through 1996.
After a buyout of Discovery's Williston Basin interests by Lyco Energy in 1996, Mr. Lewis (the president) served as VP-Exploration for Lyco, where he was responsible for the initiation of the extremely successful and famous Middle Bakken Play in the Williston Basin, which is now producing over 100,000 BOPD from prolific horizontal wells.
Then, with GeoFocus from 2004 to 2006, he identified and directed Brigham into their very successful Rough Rider area of the Middle Bakken Play.
In 2007, Discovery began work on shale gas in Europe as the chief geologist for 3Legs Resources, which has drilled 3 vertical and 2 horizontal wells on its million acres, in evaluation of a very large shale gas deposit in the Baltic Basin of northern Poland.
Meanwhile, Discovery has been rapidly growing as a consulting geology firm for several exploration companies and is also in the process of developing projects for its own accord.
SERVICES - If we don’t do it ourselves, we work with people who can!
- Prospect Review and Development
- Project Management
- Geological Research
- Database Development
- Mapping (Field and/or Computer)
- Core and/or Cuttings Analysis
- Outcrop Studies
- Computer Processed Logs Interpretation
- SEM, EDX and XRD Management and Interpretation
- Epifluorescence Petrography Management and Interpretation
- Thin Section Analysis Management and Interpretation
- TOC and Rock Eval Analysis Management and Interpretation
- GRI Shale Analysis Management and Interpretation
- Desorption (Samples and/or Core) Management and Interpretation
- Methane Adsorption Isotherms Management and Interpretation
- CT Scanning and Paleomagnetics Management and Interpretation
- Geomechanical Multi-State Triaxial Testing Management and Interpretation
- Capillary Suction Tests (CST) Management and Interpretation
- Sedimentology and Biostratigraphy
