Revitalizing Exploration on the UKCS
Finding cost on the UKCS has been reduced from 9 to 1 $ per bbl in only five years, says Andy Samuel, CEO of OGA in a recent podcast published…
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Integration is key
In the 1990’s 50% of discoveries were less than 30mboe on the Norwegian continental shelf. By the 2010’s 50% were less than 19mmboe. Over the same period, technical success rates…
TGS acquires Spectrum
The transaction will enhance TGS’ position as a leading multi-client geophysical data provider with a 2D and 3D seismic data library covering all major mature and frontier basins worldwide. Spectrum…
Using AI and ML in exploration
Earth Science Analytics has been selected as one of nine candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize that will be awarded at this year’s NCS Exploration conference: Recent Advances in Exploration…
Deep Blue – one of nine
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…
10 000 votes – so far
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…
P-Cable: Unsurpassed Resolution
“The P-Cable 3D system is an excellent starting point for achieving one-meter-scale resolution,” Nina Levedeva-Ivanova in VBPR writes in Leading Edge, November 2018. The P-Cable 3D system has now been…
eSeismic – reducing environmental noise
eSeismic was developed by PGS in cooperation with Equinor and the Norwegian Research Council. The technology has now been selected as one of nine candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize…
TopSeis – one of 9 candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize
TopSeis (full video) TopSeis has been selected as one of nine candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize 2019. Here is the reasoning for the nomination given by the programme committee…
Nine candidates have been selected for the Exploration Innovation Prize 2019
This year’s 9 candidates, as selected by the programme committee of the NCS Exploration 2019 conference (“Recent Advances in Petroleum Exploration”), are presented here: The Exploration Innovation Prize 2019. In…
Hurricane tests another fractured basement reservoir
Hurricane Energy focuses on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs and on April 16 spudded the 205/26b-C well (“Warwick Deep”) . Warwick Deep is the first in a three-well…
EMGS gets major contract
Based on current acquisition estimates, the Company expects that all or a substantial part of the minimum contract value will be recognised in 2019. “This gives us confidence that our…