Nigeria's Geoscience Intelligence Platform

MagnaTrace AI

Where ancient Nigerian earth meets tomorrow's intelligence — drilling smarter, finding faster, risking less across every Nigerian basin

Aeromagnetics  ·  Seismic  ·  Petrophysics  ·  Image Analysis  ·  Dry Hole Risk

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Platform Capabilities

Five Modules.
One Nigerian Focus.

MagnaTrace AI is the world's most deeply trained geoscience intelligence platform for Nigerian basin interpretation — a proprietary intelligence layer built on Nigerian basin physics, petrophysical standards, and exploration history, covering every sedimentary basin in Nigeria.

01Raw Subsurface Data
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02Basin-Specific Intelligence
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03Interpretable Insights
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04Exploration Decisions

Five modules, one pipeline. Each one below is a different data type feeding the same underlying intelligence layer — not five disconnected tools.

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Aeromagnetic Module

Anomaly detection, geological classification, depth estimation, and ranked exploration targeting calibrated to Nigerian basement architecture.

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Seismic Attribute Module

DHI interpretation — bright spots, flat spots, phase reversals, AVO anomalies — all referenced to Niger Delta and inland basin seismic signatures.

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Petrophysics Module

Well log analysis (GR, Rt, NPHI, RHOB): Vsh, effective porosity, water saturation, net pay, permeability — calibrated to Agbada Formation benchmarks.

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Visual Intelligence Module

Upload seismic sections, core photos, or well log screenshots. MagnaTrace's visual interpretation layer identifies fault zones, bright spots, lithology, fractures, and gas-oil crossovers from raw pixels.

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Dry Hole Risk Assessment

Integrated Probability of Success (PoS) scoring across all six petroleum system elements — referenced to Nigerian basin analogues and NUPRC standards.

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PDF Report Export

One-click branded MagnaTrace AI report generation — professional, watermarked, shareable. Built for Nigerian industry decision-making.

Nigerian Sedimentary Basins

Deeper Nigerian Basin Knowledge
Than Any Software in the World

MagnaTrace AI was built with the explicit objective of surpassing existing geoscience tools in Nigerian-specific basin intelligence — encoding the stratigraphy, petroleum systems, exploration history, and structural geology of all seven Nigerian sedimentary basins into every analysis.

Niger Delta Basin
Passive Margin · Petroleum
Akata (source), Agbada (reservoir: 18–30% porosity, 1,200 mD, 85% HC sat.), Benin (cap). Roll-over anticlines on growth faults. 34+ Bbbl oil, 94 Tcf gas in 12 km sediments.
Sediment: 12 kmOil: 34+ Bbbl
Benue Trough
Rift Basin · Petroleum + Minerals
800 km Cretaceous rift. Lower Cretaceous (oil+gas) and Upper Cretaceous (gas) systems. Horsts, grabens, compressional anticlines. Correlates with Muglad Basin (Sudan).
Sediment: 4–6 kmAge: Cretaceous
Anambra Basin
Foreland Basin · Petroleum + Coal
5,000+ m Cretaceous-Recent. Ajali sandstones (reservoir), Nkporo shales (seal), Mamu coal (source indicator). Strong stratigraphic trap potential.
Sediment: >5 kmCoal: Sub-bituminous
Chad Basin
Continental Rift · Petroleum
Nigeria's frontier province. Correlates with Termit (Niger/Chad) and Muglad (Sudan) where oil was discovered. Cretaceous sandstones (15–27% porosity). High upside.
Area: 400,000 km²Status: Frontier
Bida Basin
Intracratonic · Petroleum + Minerals
NW-SE Cretaceous intracratonic. Fe, baryte, kaolin, cassiterite. Structurally controlled HC traps untested. Basement pegmatites host columbite and gold.
Trend: NW–SEMinerals: Fe, Ba, Au
Dahomey (Benin) Basin
Passive Margin · Petroleum
SW Nigerian coast. Correlates with offshore Ghana (Jubilee, TEN). Deepwater Cretaceous sands. Transform fault structural complexity. Significant undiscovered potential.
Analog: Jubilee FieldStatus: Under-explored
Sokoto Basin
Intracratonic · Minerals
NW Nigeria. Phosphate (Cretaceous), gypsum, limestone, iron ore, manganese. Active groundwater exploration. Low but non-zero hydrocarbon potential in Cretaceous marine shales.
Resources: Phosphate, GypsumRegion: NW Nigeria
The Long-Term Vision

Nigeria Is Where MagnaTrace Starts.
Not Where It Ends.

"Geology is regional. The intelligence used to interpret it should be too."

MagnaTrace AI is being built as a global basin-specific geoscience intelligence platform. Nigeria is the first market and proving ground — not because the ambition stops here, but because the depth of regional geological context required to do this properly has to be built somewhere first, and Nigeria's sedimentary basins are where that foundation is being laid.

Nigeria→ Africa→ Global Basin-Specific Intelligence

This is not "AI applied generically to geology." Every assumption, cutoff, correction model, and interpretation rule in MagnaTrace is built basin-first — starting with the Niger Delta's Akata-Agbada system and Nigeria's other six sedimentary basins, then extending the same discipline to new basins as the platform grows. The Nigerian basin intelligence already built is the foundation the rest of the platform is built on, not a feature to be diluted as MagnaTrace expands.

Why Now

The Opportunity Didn't Exist Five Years Ago.

Three things converged to make basin-specific geoscience intelligence possible now, not before.

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AI capable enough to reason, not just pattern-match
Structured, schema-enforced AI reasoning over pre-computed geological data is only recently reliable enough to support evidence-based interpretation rather than generic pattern description.
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Subsurface data complexity is outpacing manual review capacity
More wells, more logs, more seismic volumes, and smaller technical teams at many operators — first-pass screening has to get faster without getting sloppier.
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The market Petrel-class tools were never built for
A large share of Africa's geoscience talent and marginal-field operators are priced out of enterprise software entirely. That gap doesn't close on its own — it needs a tool built for it specifically.
How MagnaTrace Works

Upload. Interpret. Understand. Decide.

Four steps from raw data to a defensible exploration decision.

01
Upload
LAS well logs, SEG-Y seismic, aeromagnetic survey data, or images — direct file upload or paste, no format conversion required.
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Interpret
MagnaTrace runs the real petrophysical and geophysical computation first — Vsh, porosity, saturation, DHI evidence stacking — before any AI reasoning touches the data.
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Understand
Every conclusion is tied to a cited value, a stated cutoff, and an explicit assumption — basin context applied throughout, not bolted on afterward.
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Decide
A structured report with a clear recommendation, stated confidence, and the specific risks and assumptions that could change the conclusion.
Analysis Engine

Five Modules.
Nigerian Intelligence Built In.

Select your basin. Select your module. Paste your data or upload an image. MagnaTrace AI's intelligence layer does the rest — basin-specific computation first, interpretation second.

Saved locally on your device. Never shared.
aeromagnetic_survey.csv
mag_results.json
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Awaiting aeromagnetic data...
seismic_attributes.csv
seismic_results.json
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Awaiting seismic attribute data...
well_log.csv
petro_results.json
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Awaiting well log data...
prospect_description.txt
risk_assessment.json
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Awaiting prospect description...
production_history.csv
decline_analysis.json
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Awaiting production history...
cross_module_check

Run two or more modules on the same prospect, then cross-check them here. This engine compares the platform's own outputs against each other and reports where they contradict.

Real dry holes get drilled partly because a petrophysical read and a geophysical read quietly disagreed and nobody forced the reconciliation before the rig moved. Conventional interpretation suites leave that check to the human. This one performs it explicitly.

Run at least two modules in this session to cross-check them. Completed so far: none.
consistency_report.json
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Awaiting two or more completed analyses...
well_correlation_panel

Display multiple wells side by side on a shared depth axis. Run a petrophysical analysis on each well, add it here, then correlate.

No wells saved yet. Run a petrophysical analysis, then click "Add current well".
0 wells saved. Add at least two to build a correlation panel.
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Save at least two wells to correlate...
image_upload — MagnaTrace visual interpretation
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Click or drag to upload image
Seismic sections · Core photos · Well log screenshots
JPG, PNG, PDF screenshots supported
Preview
image_interpretation.txt
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Upload a seismic section, core photo, or well log image to begin visual interpretation...
Case Study

From Raw Well Log to Defensible Decision

A real petrophysical workflow, start to finish — the same path any well run through MagnaTrace follows.

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Upload & QC

A .LAS file is uploaded. MagnaTrace parses the curve set, cross-checks the header's declared depth range against the actual data, and flags unit mismatches automatically — a depth curve logged in feet doesn't get silently mislabeled as meters.

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Computation

Vsh via an age-appropriate Larionov correction, effective porosity shale-corrected from the well's own shale baseline, water saturation via Archie or the Indonesian shaly-sand equation depending on shale content — every parameter and cutoff stated explicitly, not buried in a black box.

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Interpretation

Reservoir intervals are named, characterized, and benchmarked against Agbada Formation norms — with an explicit basis for every quality call, not just a label.

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Risk Assessment

Net pay, fluid type, and dry-hole risk are derived directly from the computed intervals — a well with no net pay is reported as high risk with the specific evidence that led there, not softened into a vague summary.

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Report Generation

A structured report — Well Reference, Computed Parameters, Reservoir Intervals, Data Limitations, Recommended Next Steps — exportable as a branded PDF in one click.

Founder & Company

Built for Nigeria.
Built to Go Further.

Great Ufanobong founded MagnaTrace AI with a singular starting thesis: Nigeria's seven sedimentary basins deserved geoscience software that actually knew them — not a generic tool with Nigerian data bolted on. That conviction started as deep research inside a geology degree at Akwa Ibom State University, under Dr. Anietie Ekot, and has grown into the company being built today.

While global platforms like Oasis Montaj, Petrel, and Interactive Petrophysics are powerful general tools, none of them carry embedded, formation-specific intelligence about the Agbada-Akata petroleum system, the Nkporo-Ajali reservoir-seal pair, the Muglad-correlative Chad Basin play, or the growth fault architecture of the Niger Delta. MagnaTrace AI does.

That depth-first approach — build the intelligence layer properly for one region before claiming to generalize — is the same discipline MagnaTrace intends to carry into every basin it reaches next.

  • ◆World's deepest Nigerian basin geological intelligence in an AI system
  • ◆Aeromagnetic anomaly detection, classification and depth estimation
  • ◆Seismic DHI interpretation — bright spots, flat spots, AVO analysis
  • ◆Petrophysical analysis — Vsh, porosity, water saturation, net pay
  • ◆Visual interpretation: fault zones, bright spots, lithology, fractures from images
  • ◆Integrated Probability of Success dry hole risk scoring
  • ◆All 7 Nigerian basins: Niger Delta, Benue, Anambra, Chad, Bida, Dahomey, Sokoto
  • ◆Branded PDF report export for Nigerian industry decision-making
// Founder
FounderGreat Ufanobong
RoleFounder & CEO, MagnaTrace AI
OriginResearch foundation: Dept. of Geology, Akwa Ibom State University
Academic SupervisorDr. Anietie Ekot
FocusAI in Nigerian Mineral & Petroleum Exploration
Contactgreatufanobong@gmail.com
Partner With Us

Building This With Nigeria's Industry, Not Just For It.

MagnaTrace is looking for the operators, geoscientists, technology partners, and investors who want to help shape what basin-specific geoscience intelligence becomes — starting here.

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Energy Companies
Pilot MagnaTrace against wells your team already knows the answer to. Real validation, not a sales pitch.
Start a Pilot
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Geoscience Professionals
Help stress-test the interpretation logic against real field experience — the fastest path to a tool worth trusting.
Collaborate
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Technology Partners
Data providers, cloud infrastructure, and complementary geoscience tools — interoperability is part of the roadmap.
Get in Touch
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Investors & Strategic Partners
Nigeria first, Africa next, global basin-specific intelligence beyond that — an early-stage thesis with a working product behind it.
Start a Conversation
CPR-Ready Technical Basis
Net pay, porosity and water saturation come from this well's logs. The inputs below cannot be derived from log data and must be supplied or assumed. Anything you leave at default will be clearly marked as an assumption in the generated document, so the reviewing Competent Person knows exactly what still needs replacing.
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