Structural Framework & Fault Modeling
Fault-honest structural frameworks you can drill against, update while drilling and hand straight to simulation.
Integrated geology. Connected decisions.
Development and production geoscience for deepwater operators and asset teams: development well planning, reservoir model QC, structural frameworks and volumes.
- Integrate the data: well logs, core, seismic, petrophysics and structure in one geologic story you can trust.
- Connect your bottleneck to a solution that works, with agentic AI that answers to the geologist.
- Judgment that protects long-term subsurface value.
Synthetic demonstration data: all datasets shown were built solely for demonstration purposes and are not client data.
Meet Ben
17 years reading rocks, from outcrop to subsurface.
Ben Hilton
Sedimentologist turned Structural Geomodeler
Senior Geologist & Subsurface Integrator | Founder, K'nexion Geoscience Consulting
Open to contracting and consulting engagements. Full-time positions carefully considered.
What Ben does
- Builds geologically defensible, simulation-ready earth models and estimates in-place volumes (STOIIP, remaining volumes, reserves reporting).
- Optimizes infill well programs with reservoir and production engineering, and leads across stakeholders, partners and junior staff.
15 planned 20 executed (drilled) Deepwater wells
Gulf of America
17 years of industry geoscience (since 2009)
Much of it in the Gulf of America.
~2 dozen core workshops
Four to five of them facilitated, with multidisciplinary teams.
13 years at BP
Deepwater reservoir development and management.
Master's educated
I turn messy subsurface data into decisions: where to drill, how much is there, what's the risk.
Core competencies
- 1.1Seismic interpretationFaults and horizons into a structural framework
- 2.2Stratigraphic interpretationImage logs, logs and seismic, harmonized
- 2.1Well-log interpretation and correlationTops, fault cuts and correlation panels
All 12 core competencies
- 3D Seismic Interp & Struct Mapping
- Well Log Analysis & Correlations
- Volumetrics, EUR & Connectivity
- Well Plans & Operations Geology
- 3D Static Reservoir Modeling
- Uncertainty, HM & Ensembles
- Grid Zonation, Layering & Properties
- Static-to-Dynamic Integration
- Reservoir Characterization
- Subsurface Risk Assessment
- Deepwater GOA Systems
- Mentorship & Leadership
Four Capabilities, Twelve Deliverables
Geology Services for development and production. Start with the capability that matches your decision, or go straight to a deliverable.
Well Correlation & Petrophysical Integration
Tops, logs, image logs and petrophysical zone averages reconciled into one QC’d database across every deviated well.
Mapping & Volumetrics
Thickness maps, zone averages and in-place volumes by fault block that survive peer review in structurally complicated fields.
Development Well Planning & Reservoir Model QC
Well plans, regulatory volume inputs and model checks that hold up from prognosis to simulation.
How to engage
The same five steps on every engagement. Scoped per project, no fixed length.
NDA
Signed before any data is shared.
60-minute consultation call
Free, on Microsoft Teams: your field, data and decision.
Paid scoping
A short data review, sized to the problem.
Written proposal
Scope, deliverables and a Gantt timeline, agreed up front.
The work
A pilot on one fault block or zone, or a full field study, with checkpoints and handoff.
Shorter projects: half-day to multi-week quick consults, QC of an operator's existing work, and data-room evaluations for bid rounds.
Book a 60-minute consultation call
Remote delivery · Houston, TX · Petrel and RMS on your license
HSE and drug-and-alcohol compliance available on request.
AI Solutions
Connecting the people accountable for results with the people who can move them.
Operator / Vendor Roundtable
$25 per seat, monthly on the fourth Tuesday.
K'nexion Energy Podcast
Initiation Episode: $1,000, open for negotiation.
Paid exposure: guests pay for the episode and its marketing, for broader reach across our audience.
K'nexion Talent Bridge
Free, no fee.
For people looking for work.
Credentials
- Memberships SPE and AAPG
- Texas Professional Geoscientist (PG) certification in progress.
Associates
I have access to a bench of individuals totaling over 200 collective years of experience in the industry. Whatever your need, I can bring in the right folks.