Gaia Earth Sciences

Gaia Earth Group

Company type	Private
Industry	Oil & Gas
Founded	2003, Scotland by Stuart Huyton
Headquarters	Elgin, Moray
Key people	Stuart Huyton
Products	Consulting Services
Website	gaia-earth.co.uk

Gaia Earth Sciences Limited (GESL) (now known as Gaia Earth Group) is a privately owned petrophysics consulting company based in the United Kingdom ^[1] offering services to the international upstream oil & gas industry. ^[2] It is a sustaining member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain ^[3] and a sponsor of the London Petrophysical Society ^[4] and the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society. ^[5]

History

There are two arms of the Gaia Earth Group. Gaia Earth Sciences Limited (GESL) was founded in 2003 by Stuart Huyton, and later in 2014, Huyton founded Gaia Earth Technologies Limited (GETL). Gaia Earth Group now operates across six continents, in over fifty countries worldwide with a group of twenty-five consultants. ^[6]

The Gaia Earth Group headquarters are in North East Scotland near to the village of Cummingston. ^[7]

Services

• Wireline log QA/QC is the process by which the quality of acquisition and data is controlled during Wireline (cabling) logging operations in oil wells and gas wells.
• Formation evaluation is the method by which the data acquired during wireline logging are processed and evaluated to produce results which allow an estimation of oil or gas in place, amongst other things.
• Gaia Protection Cabling Systems (GCPS) which consists of wire-pro modelling, benchmarking, standoffs and working with a specialist
• Setting up of wireline standoffs (WLSO) to prevent keyseating and differential cable sticking

Awards

• In 2012, Gaia Earth Sciences was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise ^[8] in International Trade. This is the United Kingdom's most prestigious award for business performance.
• In 2013, GESL won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade
• In 2023, both Gaia Earth Sciences and Gaia Earth Technologies were among just 148 organisations to receive King's Award for Enterprise: Innovation.

References

1. "Gaia Earth Sciences Limited" . Retrieved 26 May 2011.
2. "Oil Industry Mutually Hold Harmless" . Retrieved 24 January 2012.
3. "PESGB" . Retrieved 21 April 2012.
4. "LPS" . Retrieved 21 April 2012.
5. "Home". afes.org.uk.
6. "About Us". www.gaiaearthgroup.com. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
7. "Cummingston | Visit Forres". visitforres.scot. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
8. "City Building among Scots firms scooping Queen's Award". BBC News. 21 April 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.

External links

• Gaia Earth Sciences website