Big Guns Energy Services (BGES), a pioneer in subsurface geocontainment testing and evaluation, is positioned as a leading force in energy transition and decarbonization initiatives, particularly those involving underground storage and disposal.
With a robust foundation in the oil and gas sector, BGES excels in applying its expertise to carbon storage exploration, development and operations. The company’s knowledge and experience are instrumental in evaluating the mechanical integrity, sealing capability, continuity, and compatibility of potential geological formations. The assessments are crucial in determining suitable formations like porous rocks, depleted oil and gas reservoirs, saline aquifers, or bedded rock salt, for the safe and efficient storage of captured carbon. Also, they help to design safe operating parameters such as injection pressure and operating temperature.
“We offer simple solutions for sophisticated science,” says Dickson Lee, CEO of BGES. “Our vision is to be at the forefront of the global energy transition and reinforce our commitment to a sustainable future.”
Decades of Excellence in Energy Solutions
BGES’ journey traces back to its origin as Big Guns Perforating & Logging. Over the past decade, the company has strategically rebranded, diversifying from a conventional oilfield service provider to a technology-driven consulting and testing firm.
Building on a proven track record of 28 years, BGES has a successful history of demonstrating reliability and dedication to delivering concrete results for its valued clients in the energy industry.
In the CCUS realm, validating the caprock’s seal potential is crucial to achieving ideal carbon storage. The rock layers overlying the storage formation must exhibit strength, integrity and continuity to avoid seepage or migration of stored carbon.
As a one-stop custom oil and gas solution provider, BGES’ journey has been one of continuous adaptation and innovation, culminating in a comprehensive portfolio of underground geologic evaluation services that aim to optimize caprock integrity.
Our proficiency lies in providing a full suite of technical services for the entire lifecycle of underground carbon and energy storage
BGES extends comprehensive wireline services encompassing cased-hole logging, perforating and data acquisition. These services aid in inferring formation parameters, evaluating well or cavern integrity, and optimizing operation processes.
The critical steps to ensure safe operations—geomechanical numerical modeling and simulations—are part of its sought-after service portfolio. They predict changes in rock properties and stress over a CCUS project’s lifecycle to ensure the containment of injected carbon within the designed system, minimizing environmental risks of unintended migration of carbon to an undesirable location and safety hazards linked to caprock failure.
As caprock simulation requires considerable processing time, BGES uses high-power equipment that can significantly reduce modeling time and conveniently assist clients as needed.
“Our proficiency lies in providing a full suite of technical services for the entire lifecycle of underground carbon and energy storage,” says Lee.
To accommodate the shift toward clean and alternative energy, BGES is also engaged in a number of projects that involve evaluating potential sites for clean energy storage/extraction. It applies its state-of-the-art evaluation techniques to assess and facilitate the storage and/or extraction of diverse energy forms, including oil, natural gas and alternative energy sources such as hydrogen, geothermal, compressed air and lithium.
Pillars Behind the Legacy
The science for geocontainment exists but involves detailed engineering and geological input with many uncontrolled variables. It is also challenging to apply in harsh field environments.
BGES bridges this science-practice gap with its multidisciplinary engineering and geoscience technical teams that apply scientific principles to meet their deliverables. They seamlessly collaborate with experienced and specially-trained operations personnel to deliver end-to-end solutions in the field and laboratory, and bridge implementation gaps.
Instilling a client-centric mentality into its business models, BGES’ business development team takes a holistic approach to understanding the ‘why’ behind client needs. It diligently engages with them, conducts in-depth consultations, and collaborates with industry experts to comprehend real-world requirements.
Each solution is developed with a keen awareness of compliance requirements. BGES ensures its projects adhere to local and international standards while streamlining the application process for regulatory approval. This helps clients navigate intricate regulatory requirements, facilitating smoother exploration, development, and operational endeavors for CCUS or clean energy production.
It is also aware of the risks associated with energy projects and has integrated robust risk mitigation strategies into its offerings. This entails comprehensive planning, monitoring and response mechanisms.
“We believe in the power of collaboration. Through strategic partnerships with industry leaders, research institutions and technology providers, we enhance our capabilities and bring a wealth of expertise to our clients,” says Lee.
Beacon of Innovation and Sustainability
BGES stands apart with its proactive approach to market challenges that involves integrating energy transition initiatives and decarbonization efforts into its business models. This forward-thinking approach is aimed at to mitigating the risks associated with the anticipated future decline in traditional fossil fuel markets.
At the forefront of technological advancements, it continually invests in research and development to bring the latest innovations for subsurface evaluation, caprock integrity assessment and reservoir testing, to support cleaner energy initiatives.
With sustainability at its core, BGES’ commitment to environmental responsibility is embedded in all aspects of its processes and technologies, from project inception to completion. As part of its expansion plans, the company perceives the global transition toward decarbonization as a pivotal opportunity to showcase its aptitude in CCUS evaluations to international markets.
In a world where the energy industry is under scrutiny like never before, BGES stands as a symbol of resilience in helping oil and gas companies transition to a low-carbon future and meet climate targets.
