EGI's professional staff of more than 50 geoscientists in Salt Lake City and adjunct staff in Houston, Calgary, and Sydney are supplemented by a global network of collaborating scientists and engineers. EGI's petroleum projects, generally conducted jointly with prominent research organizations abroad, encompass petroleum basins of the former Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East, Central and South America, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, China, Southeast Asia, and the Far East. These studies range in scope from basin analysis and petroleum systems to field evaluations and reservoir characterization. The Institute initiates a wide range of research studies , both regional and thematic, on behalf of the petroleum companies subscribing to the EGI Associates Program . All EGI Associates are invited to participate group sponsored research projects, with the costs shared equally by participating companies.
Typical projects are greater than one week and less three weeks in length.