PETROMAP
Saudi Subsurface Intelligence

PetroMap

Saudi Subsurface Intelligence

A source-cited petroleum-geology knowledge base, an OverCaml-driven prospectivity screening layer, and a 3D subsurface explorer. Built entirely on public literature and open data to support Aramco's first-pass screening decisions.

Built for Aramco's public-data screening needs
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01 / THE PROBLEM

Real, cited subsurface pain points

Each point below is drawn from published public sources on Aramco's real programs. We access no proprietary data.

HIGH

Rub' al Khali exploration screeningP5

One of Earth's most underexplored basins, chasing Qusaiba-sourced unconventional potential (14 new fields announced Apr 2025).

aapg.org
HIGH

Jafurah frac design + water sourcingP4

Designing fracs and sourcing/recycling water for a $100B unconventional program in an arid basin: seawater fracturing and produced-water recycling.

jpt.spe.org
HIGH

CCS / CO2 plume monitoring (Jubail)P6

A 9-Mtpa CCS hub injecting into a saline aquifer needs robust plume monitoring and MRV.

ccushub.ogci.com
MEDIUM

Ghawar waterflood conformanceP3

Managing the advancing water front and conformance across a peripheral seawater flood is a continuous optimization problem.

jpt.spe.org
MEDIUM

Seismic imaging throughputP1

Needs far more compute for high-res depth imaging at scale (bought 7x more upstream capacity). We are not a competitor to GeoDRIVE.

aramco.com
MEDIUM

AI subsurface second-opinionP7

Scaling generative AI (Metabrain) for well placement and seismic pattern detection on proprietary data. We do not position against Metabrain or EXPEC ARC.

offshore-technology.com
CONSTRAINT

Data governance + in-Kingdom residencyP11

90+ years and 7T data points under PDPL and NCA CCC-2:2024 in-Kingdom residency for critical national infrastructure.

nca.gov.sa
02 / THE SOLUTION

The PetroMap platform, live now at petromap.ch

A complementary intelligence layer that feeds explorationists source-cited hypotheses. It does not replace their internal systems.

Cited RAG knowledge base

7,255

knowledge chunks from public petroleum-geology literature, with a source citation on every answer.

OverCaml prospectivity leads

Multi-factor consensus scoring that ranks frontier hypotheses in confidence tiers. Literature-derived hypotheses, never reserves.

3D underworld explorer

3D

Interactive subsurface visualization for visual triage, with a zoom-triggered command-line interface.

Aramco-vocabulary alignment

KSA

Terminology, field and basin naming aligned to Aramco's working language and conventions.

03 / BEFORE / AFTER

What a PetroMap pilot changes

Honest, concrete comparisons for the top pain points. Outputs are screening hypotheses your teams validate against your own data.

P5

Rub' al Khali screening

● BEFORE

Scattered manual scanning of petroleum-systems literature across dispersed papers before prioritizing play areas in a vast, underexplored basin.

● AFTER

Literature-derived, confidence-scored play-fairway triage with explicit source citations, narrowing first-pass filtering to a shortlist geologists validate against their own seismic.

P4

Jafurah frac + water

● BEFORE

Screening frac and water-treatment technologies in an arid, analog-poor basin through fragmented searching of completion and water-management literature.

● AFTER

Retrieval-augmented search over tight-gas and water-treatment literature that shortlists frac-design and produced-water-recycling techniques with sources, ready for engineer review.

P6

CO2 plume MRV (Jubail)

● BEFORE

Manually assembling MRV protocols and monitoring-well design from scattered literature for a saline-aquifer CCS project.

● AFTER

A 3D-visualization plus RAG layer for CO2-plume methods, monitoring-well design and MRV-protocol scanning as pilot decision-support. It does not replace reservoir modeling.

P7

Citable second opinion

● BEFORE

Internal models trained on proprietary data are powerful, but cannot cite external peer-reviewed method provenance to justify an output.

● AFTER

A literature-grounded, citable second opinion with a transparent provenance layer that complements internal models rather than competing with them.

04 / HOW IT WORKS

Honest tech, ready to run in-Kingdom

A simple, auditable pipeline. No seismic imaging, no reservoir simulation. Complementary to your stack.

01

Ingest public literature

Published petroleum geology and open data only. Text is not redistributed, only embeddings are stored.

02

Embed + vector search

bge-small embeddings with sqlite-vec vector search retrieve the most relevant chunks with their sources.

03

OverCaml consensus scoring

Multi-factor scoring ranks prospectivity hypotheses into confidence tiers. It shortlists, it does not decide.

04

3D viz + citation

3D visual outputs with a source citation on every result, for human validation.

Ready for in-Kingdom hosting to meet PDPL and NCA controls. Ingests only public or non-proprietary corpora unless deployed inside Aramco's environment.

05 / WHY NOW / WHY US

Aligned to Vision 2030, and Rub' al Khali is the sweet spot

Gas + unconventional

The Jafurah and gas expansion raises demand for fast, cited screening of techniques and plays.

CCS

The Jubail hub and net-zero path need cited decision-support on monitoring and MRV methods.

Localization (iktva)

A clear path to an in-Kingdom entity and a 5-year localization plan that raises award probability.

Rub' al Khali

A vast, underexplored basin makes public-literature screening highest-value and lowest data-risk.

06 / ENGAGEMENT + THE ASK

Pilot, Prove, Acquire

Soft entry first via Wa'ed Ventures or Aramco Digital, then the approved-vendor path.

PILOT

Incubation via Wa'ed Ventures ($500M VC) or Aramco Digital, a proof-of-concept on public data.

PROVE

Proven value on Rub' al Khali and Jafurah, with an in-Kingdom entity and cybersecurity certification.

ACQUIRE

A path to the Approved Vendor List, then acquisition that localizes the platform inside Aramco.

MISA + CRInvestment license + Commercial Registration for an in-Kingdom entity.
SAP AribaRegistration and prequalification via the e-Marketplace (6 to 12 weeks).
iktvaLocalization survey and 5-year plan that raise award probability.
SACS-002 CCCCybersecurity Compliance Certificate, a hard gate for anything touching Aramco systems.
PDPL + NCAIn-Kingdom data residency under CCC-2:2024 controls for critical infrastructure.

THE ASK

Start a scoped pilot on Rub' al Khali or Jafurah, entirely on public data. Prove the value as a complementary screening layer, then let us move toward acquisition and localization.

Soft entry via: Wa'ed Ventures · Aramco Digital SRM · srm@aramcodigital.com

What this is NOT

  • Not a replacement for EXPEC ARC, GeoDRIVE or Metabrain. It is complementary and pilot-grade.
  • It does not perform seismic imaging or reservoir simulation.
  • It accesses no Aramco proprietary seismic, well or production data, and makes no claim on it.
  • Leads are literature-derived hypotheses, not proven reserves and not a reserves report.
  • No invented users, revenue or traction. Public data, source-cited throughout.