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DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging: From field data to quantitative interpretation
DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging: Better physics, better results
Image high-impedance contrasts effortlessly with DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging
Uplifting land data with DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging
DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging: Superior rock properties from field data input!
Supercharge legacy data with DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging
Leap whole workflows in a single bound with DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging
DUG Multi-parameter FWI Imaging has changed the game
Shock comparisons with DUG MP-FWI Imaging
“With [DUG MP-FWI Imaging] we have taken a huge step forward.”

Oil & Gas
It’s all in the planning
How to stand your ground as a YP working in the oil and gas industry?
Syria – opening up again
Bumerangue; what are the implications of drilling into one of the most structurally complex areas of the Santos Basin?
Looking at the regional geology of the Wolin-East discovery in Poland
Energy Transition
Carbon Capture & Storage
Kasawari – gas production has commenced, but when does the CO2 storage project?
Understanding CO2 flow at Sleipner using stratigraphic continuity
Keeping geoscientists busy
Geothermal
Embracing uncertainty in geothermal exploration
Shaving off costs for geothermal exploration and production
Extract and re-inject water, from the same well
Seabed Minerals
Despite putting the brakes on seabed mineral licensing, the Norwegian government continues to spend ever-increasing amounts on seabed mapping
A pragmatic approach to seabed mining
Technology is always missing in the debate about seabed mineral extraction
New Gas
Successful near-field helium exploration
A large natural hydrogen gas accumulation or an aqueous hydrogen seepage with localised gas pockets?
A helium reservoir in fractured basement
Exploration Opportunities
Self-similar structures and DHI indicators in the Greater Caribbean
As remastered and HD versions of albums and films get released, new things are seen and heard in some all-time classics that improve the overall experience. The contrast is often relatively low from the old version to the new, as more is squeezed out of the legacy recordings.
In seismic data, however, there can often be some “chalk and cheese” type comparisons as a result of reprocessing. These reprocessing efforts usually lead to considerable detail emerging from the data that is otherwise unseen. As modern processing algorithms improve, the difference between legacy and reprocessed seismic data becomes clearer with each iteration.
In order to reveal these hidden gems in existing seismic data, Geoex MCG, in partnership with DUG Technology, have recently reprocessed data offshore the greater Caribbean in order to provide useful insights into the margin formation and petroleum system locations.
The future has arrived
Cyber Punk’s visionary pioneer William Gibson wrote, "The future has arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet”. And certainly the future on the Atlantic’s passive margins is not evenly distributed because the future there lies in hybrid systems; gravity-driven clastic turbidite flows that have been modified during and after deposition by coast-parallel contourite currents.
Gravity-driven turbidites were once assumed to be the dominant (even the “only”) process controlling deep water sediment deposition, but in a remarkable metaphor for modern life, it turns out that it's the actions of unseen cross-currents that gives shape to what is created. Indeed, contourites rarely leave clear fingerprints on the deepwater sediments we see at outcrop, yet they may have significantly altered the composition of the flow such that classic turbidite Bouma sequences are not deposited at all. Removal of the fine sediment fraction of a turbulent flow, thereby increasing net sand of subsequently deposited sediment (building mud and silt drifts at the same time), creation of asymmetric levees in slope systems that lead to channel migration, evolution of depositional topology on the slope and basin floor, and reworking, redistribution laterally of basin floor sediments are all products of the interactions between gravity driven turbidite flows and contour following currents.
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