Posts by Ali Haq

Opportunities for African gas are plentiful

The International Energy Agency’s 10-point plan to reduce the European Union’s reliance on Russian natural gas makes no mention of Africa. Rather, it sees increased production from Azerbaijan and Norway…

The Many Ways Fossils Help Decode the Subsurface

From determining how rocks correlate to reconstructing palaeoenvironments and palaeotemperatures, which is relevant to the petroleum geologist, fossils are of great significance to science and industry While there are lots…

A courageous experiment

There was a total of 17 discoveries made from 57 exploration wells drilled on NCS in 2019, with the mature North Sea yielding 10 finds, according to NPD (The Shelf…

GeoStreamer X Pilot Successful – So What’s Next?

Text: Martin Widmaier, Chief Geophysicist, PGS (paid content) GeoStreamer X employs multisensor broadband technology with wide-tow sources, longer offsets, and multi-azimuth illumination. Although imaging of the first GeoStreamer X in…

A New Era for the Geoscientist

Following on from their very successful and exciting first forum on the energy transition in September 2018 (A New Era in Geoscience), the AAPG are holding a follow-on meeting in…

The Great Crew Change in Oil & Gas

To address the upcoming ‘Great Crew Change’ industry organisations are putting increasing effort into ensuring new entrants into the O&G business get access to information and training. Are We Doing…

Spousal and Partner Recruitment in Oil & Gas

Encouraging partner employment in oil & gas with non-profit, international initiative Permits Foundation – to make it easier for expat spouses and partners to gain employment. Enabling Expatriate Partner Employment…