A Disturbing World
We live in troubling times. After the hope of the 2010 ‘Arab Spring’ in Tunisia, we have witnessed the toppling of Ghaddafi in Libya, the overthrow of two governments in…
Editorials
Communication
In my previous ‘Editor’s Patch’ on communicating the science and technology of our industry I concentrated on ‘What’ and ‘Why’ we should be communicating. I want to now take a…
10th Anniversary Wrap Up
Now that the bunting has been put away and memories of the celebrations are consigned to the annals of folklore we bring you a quick review of prize-winners and stylish-dinners.…
10th Anniversary Photo Competition Results
Celebrating 10 years of GeoExPro we launched a Photography Competition. See the winning entries here. Finally, the results are in! Votes have been counted, prize winners have been notified and…
People Are Afraid of What They Don’t Know
Nowadays, it often seems that we are being bombarded with information, and bombard others in our turn; but are we all actually communicating? Despite a plethora of facts, figures and…
Bad science for good reasons?
In his book, ‘Bad Science’ (Fourth Estate, London), Ben Goldacre expertly attempts to explain ‘why clever people believe stupid things’. When offered up so succinctly the pitfalls to bad decision…
Welcome to the new GEO ExPro website
Welcome to the new GEO ExPro website. We hope you enjoy the updated multimedia-rich interface that blends our usual brand of must-read geoscience articles with the latest interactive maps, superb…
GEO ExPro Turns Ten
Distributed to more than 60 countries; online readers in 183 countries – GEO ExPro has become a global magazine in just ten years. “We want to assist those concerned with…
A Minute to Read
Paradise Arrives Geophysical Insights, the Houston-based geosciences company, chose SEG 2013 in September to announce the commercial launch of Paradise™, a geosciences analytic software platform. Paradise executes and manages workflows based…
Maturing Nicely
Following the discovery of gas onshore the Netherlands in 1959 and offshore the UK in 1963, and then oil in the North Sea a few years later, the hydrocarbon industry…
Frack Off! But Where To?
Only someone who has spent the last five years in the remote Amazon rainforest could be unaware of the influence of unconventional hydrocarbon resources on the economy of the United…
Challenging the Industry
As discussed in our cover story, geochemistry is the unsung and under-used star of hydrocarbon exploration, despite first being employed back in the 1930s. Yet the application of this science…