E&P · Neuquén basin & Americas · Public data
Argentina's well registry publishes 13.5 months late, and the subsurface never gets published at all. Four tools cover that window with public data: SecEnergía records, Sentinel-1 radar and free satellite imagery. No data purchases, no field instruments, and the arithmetic left in the open so you can redo it.
What it solves
Before you can argue about spacing, frac sequence or what a block is worth, you need to know how the wells next door decline. Per-well production, Arps fits and type wells by block and operator, ready to set against your own. One of two sites here kept current; the rest of the portfolio is a snapshot frozen at end-2024.
With the registry running 13.5 months behind, the tail of the series looks like an activity collapse that never happened. Night-lights cover that blind window: they confirm 71% of 20,178 known well events and estimate the missing ones at ROC-AUC 0.85 for drilling and 0.91 for fracking. At 500 m resolution the unit is the pad cluster, not the well.
What shears a casing is not subsidence but the difference in subsidence between two nearby points, and the map locates those edges. Two adjacent leases move as mirror images for seven years: the one injecting rises 80 mm, the one producing sinks 80 mm. It measures movement, not cause.
Banks and funds ask for emissions intensity, and that number shouldn't depend on the counterparty declaring it. 113 flares detected and 2.4 Mt of CO₂ in 2024, attributed by lease and divided by declared production: between 2.1 and 31.9 kg of CO₂ per barrel of oil equivalent depending on the operator. Methane is measured basin-wide; attributing it by company isn't possible yet.
To work out what each satellite can and cannot see before commissioning anything — visual guide with a 3D globe.
How I work
Start from the decision you have to make, not from the tool.
Public data: you can audit where every number comes from and redo the arithmetic.
When the data won't support a claim, you say so on the spot — which is right before the next well gets committed.
Every project assembles its own team. I bring the business problem and the build; around it come whatever specialists are needed — geophysics, reservoir engineering, satellite image processing, software development, cybersecurity and AI safety. Some are partners of mine and some are your own people, which is usually the better arrangement: nobody knows your asset like the people who operate it.
What you get
Your question against public data. You get back a short report: the finding, how far it can be pushed, and the sources so your people can redo the arithmetic.
A tool like the ones above, with your data inside and whatever team the case calls for. You get back the application or the layers, running wherever you want them.
Ongoing input on which data is worth buying, which is already public, and what can be measured without instrumenting the field.
Who's behind this
Matías Podeley. Eighteen years in energy — reservoir engineering, then business development, mostly on the side that hires the specialists. I build these tools myself, with public data and AI. Buenos Aires.
Contact
Tell me which decision is in front of you and I'll tell you whether public data is enough to move it.
mpodeley@gmail.com · Buenos Aires