Issue 4

Vol. 17

This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on Europe and Latin America; Developments in Geophysics; and Using the Cloud.

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Regional Update: Latin America Leads the Way

8 Licensing Update: Somalia

10 A Minute to Read

20 Technology Explained: A Bridge Between Two Worlds

22 History of Oil: The Khoshtaria Concessions

42 GEO Profile: Alfredo Guzmán – Making a Case for Mexico

46 Recent Advances in Technology: From Arrhenius to CO2 Storage – Part IX

52 Exploration: Pitfall Petrofacies

56 Hot Spot: The Nile Delta

72 GEO Media: Celebrating Ramsay’s Rock Folds and Fractures

74 Exploration Update

76 Q&A: Taking Ownership of Your Career

78 FlowBack: Changing the Traffic

Features

14 COVER STORY: GEO Tourism: The Bolivian Altiplano

28 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: Artificial Intelligence – Revolutionizing our Understanding

34 Seismic Interpretation: Cinder Cone or Mud Volcano

38 Technology Explained: Making Waves with Big Seismic Computing

58 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: Offshore Argentina – Tertiary Play Potential in the Malvinas Basin

64 Industry Issues: No Longer a Dream

68 Exploration: Chasing Plays Along the Rona Ridge

Articles

GEO ExPro Vol. 17, No. 4 Out Now!

Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 17, No. 4 is available for download. This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on Europe and Latin America; Developments in Geophysics; and Using the Cloud. Read More

Geoscience in a Low Carbon Future

The role of a petroleum geoscientist is evolving with the energy transition, but geoscience is still of vital importance to the future of energy. Recent events regarding the global Covid-19 Read More

Taking Ownership of Your Career in Geosciences

How can professional organizations help young people in the industry? David Eastwell, Europe President of the American Association of Petroleum Geoscientists Young Professionals group (AAPG YP) talks about the advantages Read More

Offshore Argentina: Tertiary play potential in the Malvinas Basin

Tertiary hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Malvinas Basin Reprocessing of seismic data across the Malvinas Basin has aided in the definition of virtually unexplored Tertiary plays. The Malvinas Basin is a large Read More

Alfredo Guzmán: Making a Case for Mexico’s Oil & Gas Future

Alfredo Guzmán is an untiring advocate for Mexico’s oil and gas industry and its people. He tells GEO ExPro about his years exploring new geographic and technical frontiers in the Read More

Onshore Hydrocarbon Exploration Opportunities in Angola

Angola’s Onshore Kwanza Basin offers an underexplored basin with a world class petroleum system, presenting many oil and gas exploration opportunities for the upcoming Onshore Angola License Round. Seasoned explorers Read More

Major Gas Discovery Offshore Turkey

The state oil and gas firm of Turkey, TPAO, has announced a major gas discovery at Tuna-1 in the western Black Sea. Location of the Tuna-1 gas discovery in the Read More

Aiming for Net Zero

Achieving net zero is a complex issue and many companies involved in the oil industry are at pains to explain how they are going to go green. Many companies involved Read More

Artificial Intelligence: revolutionizing our understanding

AI seismic interpretation See how cutting-edge AI technology is enabling a revolution in subsurface understanding. It is about time there was some delivery from the promise of AI to help Read More

Chasing Hydrocarbon Plays Along the Rona Ridge

Review of new 3D seismic data in the Faroe-Shetland Basin has revealed new hydrocarbon potential of the Early Cretaceous syn-rift and Precambrian fractured basement plays along the northern extent of Read More

Interactive Software for Pre-Stack Seismic Data Processing

In 2006, a ‘moonshot’ R&D project was launched to develop interactive software for visualising and processing pre-stack seismic data and is now being used to monitor oil and gas production Read More

Licensing Update Somalia: A Final Frontier Opens Up

Somalia’s first offshore licensing round commenced in August 2020, opening up one of the final frontier regions of the world for oil and gas exploration. Offshore Somalia is one of Read More

The Nile Delta: Oil & Gas Exploration Hot Spot of North Africa

The various plays of the Nile Delta continue to attract investment for major oil and gas exploration campaigns, with onshore and shallow water successes already in motion. For minnow and Read More

Success for Shallow Water Bashrush Gas Discovery, Offshore Egypt

After a string of dry wells in the eastern deepwater Nile Delta, Eni, in partnership with BP and Total, have had success testing their recent shallow water Bashrush gas discovery, Read More

Hydrocarbon Exploration Suriname: Perseverance Rewarded

Perseverance pays off; following two high-profile, high-cost dry holes drilled in Suriname, Apache hit their third consecutive major condensate-light oil discovery on Block 58. Map showing location of the Read More

North Sea Hydrocarbon Discovery Offshore Norway

The international gas-weighted explorer Neptune continues to be successful in the North Sea, having recently reported a hydrocarbon discovery offshore Norway. Map showing the location of the 34/4-15 Dugong Read More

No Longer a Dream

The upstream oil and gas industry collects huge amounts of data, yet very rarely analyses more than a small fraction of it. In addition, some decisions need to be made Read More

What is Digital Twin Technology – And How is it Used in Oil and Gas?

The idea of the ‘digital twin’ is catching on in the oil and gas industry. But what exactly is it, and how can it help? A digital twin is a Read More

Cinder Cone or Mud Volcano?

A triangular feature identified in modern seismic on the Papuan Plateau went ‘viral’ on social media amongst the geoscience community as geoscientists from all over the world debated their theories Read More

See How Geoteric’s Cutting-Edge AI Technology is Enabling a Revolution in Subsurface Understanding

It is the biggest technology revolution we have seen; you have probably heard “AI is the future” – but what can it do to improve the decision making process for Read More

Geoscience Cloud Solutions for a Pandemic

Cloud-based software solution, Seequent Central, supports geoscience analysis, modelling and collaborative technologies enabling organisations to work on critical large-scale hydrocarbon and geothermal projects from wherever they are in the world. Read More

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