RFDbase™ – The Industry’s Largest Rock & Fluid Database
RFDbase™ solves the persistent challenge of limited access to high-quality, standardized subsurface data needed to support exploration, development, and production decisions. For over 35 years, RFDbase has provided energy professionals with on-demand access to the industry’s largest rock, fluid, and PVT database, including over 910,000 samples across global basins containing hydrocarbon fluids, PVT properties, source rocks, water chemistry, XRD, XRF, ICP-MS, and TRUSAT rock-saturation data. This exclusive dataset helps teams avoid costly and time-consuming sampling campaigns by offering immediate insights into key geochemical and petrophysical parameters, such as TOC, biomarkers, isotopes, API gravity, sulfur content, and PVT behavior.
RFDbase delivers the foundational data required to de-risk acreage, validate charge systems, detect compartmentalization, and improve well performance, whether you’re benchmarking new discoveries, evaluating analog systems, refining EOS models, or identifying overlooked plays. With consistent lab methodologies and deep coverage across plays, RFDbase empowers geoscientists and engineers to make faster, more confident decisions at every stage of the asset lifecycle.
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How RFDbase™ Supports Geoscience & Engineering Workflows
Analogue & Benchmarking Tools
Integrate your proprietary data to identify outliers, confirm trends, and strengthen play-specific models
Statistical & Machine-Learning Ready
High-quality, validated data ideal for training predictive models—linking subsurface properties to well performance.
Accelerated Insight Delivery
Skip time consuming data gathering and interpretation. Leverage pre-compiled technical studies to fast-track analyses.
Shared Data Environment
Centralize rock, fluid, and PVT data across teams (exploration, reservoir, facilities), ensuring everyone works from the same data framework.
Key Features & Outputs
Oil Family Maps: Visualize geochemical clustering via PCA/HCA to define fluid families and support correlation efforts with our regional studies.
Play‑based Analysis: Pre‑built datasets and interpreted geochemical evaluations and studies for regions like the North Sea, Permian Gulf Coast, and Mid‑Continent.
Data Visualization Tools: Quick-look analog charts and dashboards for benchmarking and regional correlation enables insights into source rock potential, depositional environments, age of source rock deposition, maturity, migration, and maturity pathways.
Open Architecture: Use within your own Business Intelligence tools or ML pipelines for advanced data modeling.
If you are interested in learning more about RFDbase’s capabilities and many uses, reach out to us at RFDbase@geomarkresearch.com for step-by-step instructions on how you can utilize RFDbase to its fullest capacity.
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