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Gaia Earth Sciences

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Gaia Earth Sciences Limited (GESL) (now known as Gaia Earth Group) is a privately owned petrophysics consulting company based in the United Kingdom offering services to the international upstream oil & gas industry. It is a sustaining member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and a sponsor of the London Petrophysical Society and the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society.2 It was founded in 2003.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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

The story

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.

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Gaia Earth Sciences, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Gaia Earth Sciences, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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