IGI User Group 2025: Advancing Geochemistry Through Collaboration and Innovation
The IGI User Group 2025 meeting, held in June at Hallsannery, was one of our best-attended events to date, welcoming 15 participants from 10 different companies.
Andrew Green
Senior Geochemist/Basin Modeller
Andrew Green joined IGI Ltd. in 2010 after graduating from Newcastle University with an MSc in Petroleum Geochemistry. Andrew’s work for IGI involves:
• Geochemical and basin modelling consultancy, which has exposed him to interpretation questions from a range of international conventional and unconventional petroleum systems over 4 continents.
• Providing software user support to our p:IGI+ customers. This also includes the
delivery of specialist geochemistry software training courses both online and in person, and the maintenance of the online software user guide.
• Feeding user input into the development of IGI’s software products and software testing pre-release.
• Leading geological/geochemical field trips about South Wales, Devon and Dorset, UK
• Managing the content on IGI’s geochemistry reference software product: ig.NET.
• Acting as a company First Aider (field-based)
En-route to IGI Ltd., Andrew completed qualifications in Geology, BSc. (Durham University) & Integrated Petroleum Geoscience, MSc. (University of Aberdeen) and also had the opportunity to operate and run wireline tools for Schlumberger for 18 months in Oman, providing leadership and operational skills while developing an interest in petrophysics.
Following a work experiencing placement with Geopressure Technology (Ikon Science) while at Durham University, Andrew was able to combine both his knowledge of Geopressure and petrophysics into his Newcastle dissertation; which investigated the quantitative approaches to directly measuring mudstone pore pressure across the Rosetta Province, western offshore Nile Delta.
While at IGI, apart from maintaining an interest in the relationship between petrophysics and source rock, Andrew has also enjoyed working on unconventional projects across Europe and north Africa and keeping up to speed with developments in geochemical screening Pyrolysis equipment. Recently Andrew had the opportunity to work on investigating the storage potential of captured CO2 in the Triassic Bunter Fm. of the Southern North Sea and plans on developing skills in Net-Zero consultancy services.
Away from work, I spend my free time training dogs in the sport of canine agility and competing in the sport of Triathlon. Other interests include a love for, growing fruit & veg, and baking.
• Geochemical and basin modelling consultancy, which has exposed him to interpretation questions from a range of international conventional and unconventional petroleum systems over 4 continents.
• Providing software user support to our p:IGI+ customers. This also includes the
delivery of specialist geochemistry software training courses both online and in person, and the maintenance of the online software user guide.
• Feeding user input into the development of IGI’s software products and software testing pre-release.
• Leading geological/geochemical field trips about South Wales, Devon and Dorset, UK
• Managing the content on IGI’s geochemistry reference software product: ig.NET.
• Acting as a company First Aider (field-based)
En-route to IGI Ltd., Andrew completed qualifications in Geology, BSc. (Durham University) & Integrated Petroleum Geoscience, MSc. (University of Aberdeen) and also had the opportunity to operate and run wireline tools for Schlumberger for 18 months in Oman, providing leadership and operational skills while developing an interest in petrophysics.
Following a work experiencing placement with Geopressure Technology (Ikon Science) while at Durham University, Andrew was able to combine both his knowledge of Geopressure and petrophysics into his Newcastle dissertation; which investigated the quantitative approaches to directly measuring mudstone pore pressure across the Rosetta Province, western offshore Nile Delta.
While at IGI, apart from maintaining an interest in the relationship between petrophysics and source rock, Andrew has also enjoyed working on unconventional projects across Europe and north Africa and keeping up to speed with developments in geochemical screening Pyrolysis equipment. Recently Andrew had the opportunity to work on investigating the storage potential of captured CO2 in the Triassic Bunter Fm. of the Southern North Sea and plans on developing skills in Net-Zero consultancy services.
Away from work, I spend my free time training dogs in the sport of canine agility and competing in the sport of Triathlon. Other interests include a love for, growing fruit & veg, and baking.
Field Geology - Wern Ddu Clay Pit
Location: Wern Ddu Clay Pit (Coed y Werin), Caerphilly, Wales, UK
The site is owned and managed by the Caerphilly Woodlands Trust, and the Wern Ddu Clay Pit is designated as a Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Field Geology - Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK
Location: Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK
Cliffs below Devonshire Head (SY:328-910 to SY:332-914) between Seven Rock Point and Monmouth Beach
Access: Monmouth Beach is accessed via Cobb Road, just to the west of the Boat Building Academy (SY:335-915)
Title: Clay Mineralogy, Organic Matter and Climate of the Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis - By…
Field Geology - Hartland Quay, Devon, UK
Location: Hartland Quay, Devon, UK
Hartland Quay Car park (SS:223-247) to Warren Beach (SS:225-249) Access: Warren Beach is accessed via Hartland Quay slipway north of The Wrecker's Retreat Inn (SS:223-248)
Title: Folding without cracking - By Andrew Green
The cliffs north of Hartland Quay present a spectacular array of antiformal and synformal folds, including…
Total Organic Carbon – Revised TOC Cutoffs
By Andrew Green
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In petroleum geochemistry, a source rock is classified as an interval of rock that contains sufficient organic matter of the right type that has the potential to generate, or has already generated, commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.
PVT Properties in the IGI Property Model
The IGI property model shipped with version 2. 3 of the software sees the introduction of a new PVT property model relevant to geochemistry.
IGI release version 2.3 of p:IGI+ and Metis
Version 2.3 of p:IGI+ and Metis introduce a number of new features including enhanced support for auto-artefacts, uncertainty, graphs, maps and more ...
New auto-artefact support in p:IGI+ 2.3
Improved artefact management is a key update delivered in v2. 3. Auto-artefacts cover the majority of artefacts including graphs, palettes, maps, pages, rule sets, dynamic sample sets and statistics. In the new release, existing autographs have been reviewed and updated, and a range of new auto-artefact templates added.