Fairway Exploration Consultants

a UK based independent geological and geophysical consultancy for the international petroleum industry, established in 1987 by a team of experienced oil industry executives with a broad range of oil and gas technical, operational and financial expertise and professional skills. 

Fairway Exploration Consultants provides a broad spectrum of services to the international petroleum industry, including project management and technical advice in all aspects of new ventures exploration and appraisal from global studies to regional assessments, play fairway and prospect analysis and evaluation of prospective reserves.


 Exploration evaluations are supported by Fairway’s non-exclusive datasets and reports. These include worldwide petroleum systems and play fairways databases of known hydrocarbon basins: data-rich regional reports and non-exclusive data packages of seismic, well, fluid and field data. Innovative use is made of GIS to analyse and illustrate exploration databases, stratigraphy, play fairways and risk analysis.


Exploration related consultancy and services include: -


  • Technical Reviews and Acreage Audits 
  • Basin Analysis & Petroleum Systems Evaluation
  • License Evaluation and Ranking
  • Exploration Prospect and Lead Generation
  • Integrated Play and Fairway Analysis
  • New Ventures in Frontier and Productive Basins
  • Reserves & Risk Analysis, & Asset Evaluation
  • Country, Regional Basin & Bidding Round Assessment
  • Exploration Evaluation and Strategy
  • Building an Exploration Portfolio
  • Data Rooms and Licence Round Evaluation
  • Liaison with Governmental oil agencies
  • Licensing and Government Assistance