U3 EXPLORE: Augmenting Artificial Intelligence by Human Geoscience Knowledge for Smarter Energy Investments

March 3, 2025
U3 Explore
U3 Explore leverages cutting-edge geoscience expertise and digital innovation to transform energy exploration and investment. Integrating data-driven analytics, advanced geologic modeling, and a collaborative network of specialists enables faster, more reliable decision-making for energy companies. Its platform enhances basin evaluations, de-risks investments, and optimizes strategies through specialized insights and digital workflows, ensuring smarter, more efficient exploration in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
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U3 Explore spent five years building a foundation to upscale human intelligence with recent computational technological achievements. The energy industry is undergoing a rapid transformation, requiring more intelligent, private insights-driven approaches to explorationand investment. Network-based organizations like U3 Explore are at the forefront of this shift, integrating specialized geoscience expertise withcutting-edge digital solutions to empower energy companies with faster, more reliable decision-making processes. Through a collaborative network of small businesses, U3 Explore brings together Actus Veritas Geoscience, a subsurface characterization and exploration advisory leader, and Code t3, a pioneering technology firm specializing in data analytics, cloud-based collaboration, and AI-driven geoscience applications. This synergistic approach enables energy companies to de-risk their portfolios, enhance basin evaluations, and optimize investment strategies with unprecedented efficiency. By combining advanced geoscience methodologies with digital innovation, U3 Explore is redefining how exploration intelligence is applied, ensuring smarter, more strategic energy investments in an increasingly complex global landscape.

Why is U3 Explore of high value to your organization?

Global energy demand is rising, yet exploration and development face mounting technical, environmental, and economic challenges. Traditional methods struggle to keep up with cutting-edge geoscience techniques, digital workflows, and strategic insights, creating a pressing need for faster, more reliable evaluations of basin histories, play dependencies, and investment decisions. Additionally, many large energy companies are experiencing a shortage of experienced geoscientists, making it challenging to deliver high-qualityassessments and independent external audits.

The Power of Collaboration: U3 Explore & Small Business Ecosystem

U3 Explore fosters a dynamic ecosystem where specialized geoscience expertise is integrated into a seamless, digital collaboration environment. Through U3Explore.com, and under the leadership of Actus Veritas Geoscience, we coordinate and mobilize a network of highly skilled subject matter experts (SMEs), digital innovators, and independent service providers. This agile, multidisciplinary approach enables energy companies to access best-in-class methodologies for rapid basin analysis, reservoir evaluation, and play-based exploration strategy development.

By leveraging advanced analytics, deformable basin modeling, and GIS-based geoanalytics, our platform ensures that each project benefits from seamless knowledge-sharing, improved risk assessment, and optimized decision-making.Through strategic collaboration, we empower organizations to overcome technical challenges with precision, speed, and cost efficiency, strengthening portfolio resilience and de-risking investments in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.

Practical components of the U3 Explore Ecosystem:

U3 Explore Ecosystem is built on components and knowledge tested by Petroleum Industry projects over the last 30 years of operations.

The cutting-edge Geoscience Intelligence Ecosystem includes:

  1. Access to a global comprehensive analog fields and reservoirs database and analytical platform linking components into a play-based exploration project.
  2. Refined geologic models using organic geochemistry databases to constrain petroleum system evaluations.
  3. Calibrated U3 Explore proprietary gravity inversions database that uses an extensive database of basement penetration data points.
  4. Experience in industrial geotechnical project management linking geophysical methods, plate tectonic reconstructions, and geochemistry for subsurface characterization.
  5. Analysis of source rock deposition, petroleum system modeling, and basin history by integrating proprietary advanced deformable plate modeling to track basin configuration over time.
  6. Contextual Geoanalytics studying petroleum habitats and GIS Portal of our projects in Africa, GOM, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
  7. U3 Explore’s private library of training videos, reports and recorded talks

 Let's Explore More—Together!

U3 Explore is more than just a database—it is a geoscience intelligence hub that transforms expert knowledge into economic value. We invite strategic investors and industry leaders to partner with us in reshaping the future of energy exploration and carbon management.

 

For partnership discussions, product demos, or investment inquiries, contact us at info@u3explore.com.

Join us in transforming data into opportunity—invest in U3 Explore today!

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Petroleum Geoscience Consulting
Plate Tectonics
Petroleum System
Databases
Data Management
Data Analytics
Geology
Complex Geology
Augmented Intelligence
Technology
Risk and Uncertainty
Basin and Play Assessment
Geography
Global
East Africa
West Africa
North Africa
South Atlantic
Central America
Central Atlantic
GOM and Caribbean
South Caribbean
South Caribbean Deformation Belt Ultradeep
South America
Equatorial West Africa
Equatorial Guinea
GOM USA
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Katya (Ekaterina) Casey
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Nov 16, 2019
CEO Managing Director, Actus Veritas Geoscience LLC

Katya is one of the founders of Actus Veritas Geoscience and U3 Explore. She has more than 30 years of experience in the Petroleum Industry. Katya is a uniquely qualified professional with experience in geoscience, geospatial analysis, design, and implementation of specialized technical assessments and technologies in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. She is now applying her oil and gas subsurface characterization skills in decarbonization projects in regional and injection site assessments.

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Oct 8, 2020
Scotty Salamoff

What do the two sciences need to know about each other to deliver practical results? On the image above is a wavelet displayed to scale next to a wave-shaped building. Appreciation of scale is one of the skills critical in oil and gas AI projects. On the other side, to be a successful petroleum geoscientist in the post-COVID requires a set of very specific new skills in addition to the understanding of geologic concepts. These new skills are not normally associated with geoscience but are fast becoming critical for geoscientists to operate in an E&P environment.

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What do the two sciences need to know about each other to deliver practical results? On the image above is a wavelet displayed to scale next to a wave-shaped building. Appreciation of scale is one of the skills critical in oil and gas AI projects. On the other side, to be a successful petroleum geoscientist in the post-COVID requires a set of very specific new skills in addition to the understanding of geologic concepts. These new skills are not normally associated with geoscience but are fast becoming critical for geoscientists to operate in an E&P environment.
Learning from mistakes: Creating value from understanding the reasons we fail
Sep 2, 2020
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

It is overall our view that creaming curve analysis is most valuable when it discriminates between the plays and playtests, when it may indeed identify missed opportunities or even new plays when combined with as thorough an understanding of the history of the basin as possible. "Lumping" the statistics together appears not to serve this purpose, at least in predictive mode, when trying to build a new portfolio and incorporate the potential value of speculative or conceptual plays.

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It is overall our view that creaming curve analysis is most valuable when it discriminates between the plays and playtests, when it may indeed identify missed opportunities or even new plays when combined with as thorough an understanding of the history of the basin as possible. "Lumping" the statistics together appears not to serve this purpose, at least in predictive mode, when trying to build a new portfolio and incorporate the potential value of speculative or conceptual plays.
The absence of evidence does not necessarily mean the evidence for absence – exploration beyond first-order basin statistics
Jul 29, 2020
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

Basin and play exploration are inherently governed by the management of risk and uncertainty at the portfolio level. Exploration investment decisions biased by risk-averse teams are susceptible to first-order basin statistics which may reflect a historical “poor” exploration history and exhaustion of existing play concepts. New concepts, new models, new thinking, and consideration of alternatives often result in a paradigm shift despite previous negative results.

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Basin and play exploration are inherently governed by the management of risk and uncertainty at the portfolio level. Exploration investment decisions biased by risk-averse teams are susceptible to first-order basin statistics which may reflect a historical “poor” exploration history and exhaustion of existing play concepts. New concepts, new models, new thinking, and consideration of alternatives often result in a paradigm shift despite previous negative results.
Survey Results: Adaptation or remission : what next for E&P?
May 30, 2020
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

The purpose of the survey is to collect information across different companies and geographies and help the industry in recovery after the crisis. There are many publications about how lost we became and the recognition that people want to return to a "new normal." There is an understanding that this "new normal" should reflect not only our new hygiene practices but also help us to reconnect with our lives, families, and friends, make our work more meaningful, and help us to focus on things that are important in our lives.

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The purpose of the survey is to collect information across different companies and geographies and help the industry in recovery after the crisis. There are many publications about how lost we became and the recognition that people want to return to a "new normal." There is an understanding that this "new normal" should reflect not only our new hygiene practices but also help us to reconnect with our lives, families, and friends, make our work more meaningful, and help us to focus on things that are important in our lives.
Why Value Networking is essential or why shopping for skills on LinkedIn might get one in trouble.
May 13, 2020
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

An example of the difference between U3 Explore and LinkedIn approach to professional networking. I use LinkedIn regularly myself following the posts of the people whose opinion I value and from whom I learn. Today on LinkedIn, I came across a simple explanation of why building a Value Network that is assembled and promoted not by paid campaigns but by our personal experiences will save us from trouble. The bottom line is that paid advertisements do not guarantee the quality of advice or service. Reference-based relationships do.

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An example of the difference between U3 Explore and LinkedIn approach to professional networking. I use LinkedIn regularly myself following the posts of the people whose opinion I value and from whom I learn. Today on LinkedIn, I came across a simple explanation of why building a Value Network that is assembled and promoted not by paid campaigns but by our personal experiences will save us from trouble. The bottom line is that paid advertisements do not guarantee the quality of advice or service. Reference-based relationships do.
Adaptation or remission : what next for E&P?
May 8, 2020
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

Technical expertise and business acumen have differentiated sustainable performance among E&P competitors. 2020 First Quarter earnings results evidence the pressures that face the future direction of the global E&P industry. Capital discipline strategies have reshaped the forward outlook of companies and for industry professionals uncertainty will be foremost in their thoughts. What will emerge from this period?

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Technical expertise and business acumen have differentiated sustainable performance among E&P competitors. 2020 First Quarter earnings results evidence the pressures that face the future direction of the global E&P industry. Capital discipline strategies have reshaped the forward outlook of companies and for industry professionals uncertainty will be foremost in their thoughts. What will emerge from this period?
Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina
Apr 28, 2020
Ricardo Sebastian Martinez

The success of oil and gas production from shale plays in the U.S in the last decade has also drawn attention to the most prolific source rock of the Neuquen Basin in Argentina, which is called Vaca Muerta Formation. Today, with approximately 110 MBls/d of oil and 1 Bcf of gas production from 1400 wells, it represents 5% and 23% of the total production of oil and gas of Argentina respectively.

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The success of oil and gas production from shale plays in the U.S in the last decade has also drawn attention to the most prolific source rock of the Neuquen Basin in Argentina, which is called Vaca Muerta Formation. Today, with approximately 110 MBls/d of oil and 1 Bcf of gas production from 1400 wells, it represents 5% and 23% of the total production of oil and gas of Argentina respectively.
Survey Results Report:  "Oil and Gas: Let's Check our Corona Virus Related Temperature"
Apr 7, 2020
Katya (Ekaterina) Casey

This analysis uses the data collected over March 25th- April 5th. By the digital nature of our survey, the responses are biased towards technically enabled companies and individuals that were set up for occasional remote work. We analyze 1- the overall level of the system preparedness for such an extraordinary situation when the majority of the workforce is working from home, where the entire family is streaming homeworks, videos, and videoconferencing; 2- social aspects of the remote working; 3- feedback on the support provided for remote workers and ideas on post-crisis recovery

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This analysis uses the data collected over March 25th- April 5th. By the digital nature of our survey, the responses are biased towards technically enabled companies and individuals that were set up for occasional remote work. We analyze 1- the overall level of the system preparedness for such an extraordinary situation when the majority of the workforce is working from home, where the entire family is streaming homeworks, videos, and videoconferencing; 2- social aspects of the remote working; 3- feedback on the support provided for remote workers and ideas on post-crisis recovery
Ñirihuau Basin Report, Argentina
Jan 16, 2020
Ricardo Sebastian Martinez

Located in southwestern Argentina, it covers around 15000 Km2, with more than 10.000 ft. thickness in the depocenters. The basin has more than 100 years of exploration history started with the exploitation of 10 barrels a day from 4 wells in “Arroyo de La Mina” oil seepage. This report summarizes the new exploration ideas, based on geochemical data and outcrops description that allows the existence of a hypothetical new petroleum system. This idea generates high exploration potential in undrilled deep sections of big structures.

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Located in southwestern Argentina, it covers around 15000 Km2, with more than 10.000 ft. thickness in the depocenters. The basin has more than 100 years of exploration history started with the exploitation of 10 barrels a day from 4 wells in “Arroyo de La Mina” oil seepage. This report summarizes the new exploration ideas, based on geochemical data and outcrops description that allows the existence of a hypothetical new petroleum system. This idea generates high exploration potential in undrilled deep sections of big structures.
Colorado Basin Report, Offshore Argentina, Exploration Review
Jan 21, 2020
Ricardo Sebastian Martinez

This report contains an exploration review of Colorado Basin, located in southeastern Argentina, it has onshore and most extensive offshore sections with more than 125000 Km2 of total extension. The basin has more than 70 years of exploration history, with a few wells drilled, one of them recovered 39º API Oil from Early Cretaceous Syn-rift sandstone. Three main plays were identified, with high exploration potential: Rift Margin Play, Continental Slope Play, and Thrust belt play.

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This report contains an exploration review of Colorado Basin, located in southeastern Argentina, it has onshore and most extensive offshore sections with more than 125000 Km2 of total extension. The basin has more than 70 years of exploration history, with a few wells drilled, one of them recovered 39º API Oil from Early Cretaceous Syn-rift sandstone. Three main plays were identified, with high exploration potential: Rift Margin Play, Continental Slope Play, and Thrust belt play.
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