The Future of Marine Seismic Acquisition?
A new marine seismic acquisition method offers full azimuth, full offset coverage, excellent quality data and repeatability, all in a very efficient manner. Over the past 50 years developments in…
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SEG-Y Update Anyone that has worked with seismic data in the last 40 or so years will be familiar with the SEG-Y seismic data exchange standard. SEG-Y is one of…
Seismic Interpretation with Machine Learning
A methodology to deal with ‘Big Data’. Machine learning resolves two significant issues in seismic interpretation: firstly, the ‘Big Data’ problem of trying to interpret dozens, if not hundreds, of…
Why Leopards Can Change Their Software Spots
The take-up of innovative software is often held back by the effort involved in a long learning process Turning seismic waves into images of the sub-surface has been around for…
The Future is at the Bottom of the Ocean
Ocean bottom seismic has been gaining market share over high-end streamer acquisition. One of the ground-breaking technologies within acquisition is Magseis’ Marine Autonomous Seismic System Until recently, 90% of the…
The Golden Snitch?
Borehole Gravity for Reservoir Monitoring A shiny, one-inch round, miniature gravity meter is providing key bits of information about the distribution of pore fluids for reservoir monitoring. High-resolution borehole gravity…
Was the Mozambique Channel Once Scattered with Islands?
The geological history of the Davie Ridge tells us how tectonic, erosional and climatic forces shaped this part of the earth, pushing the mountains of west Madagascar, which once abutted…
Taking the Plunge: How nodes can navigate ocean bottom seismic into the mainstream
Norwegian start-up company inApril explain why they took the plunge into the ocean bottom seismic market. It is sometimes said that it took nearly 30 years for towed-streamer 3D marine…
Marine Seismic Data: Faster, Better, Cheaper?
New ideas in acquisition and processing are finally realizing the full potential of broadband data. Traditional towed streamer marine seismic acquisition has been stuck with the same old geometries for…
Khuff: A Major Reservoir
The Permo-Triassic Khuff reservoir is one of the most productive gas fields in the world. What are the factors which have helped it to become so prolific? Available online for…
An Overlooked Petroleum System
Is it possible to generate hydrocarbons over the oceanic crust? In petroleum exploration, the concept of hydrocarbon generation on the continental crust is completely accepted. However, modelling exercises demonstrate that,…
Gas Blowouts on the Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas
Last year a giant crater was discovered on the Yamal Peninsula south of the Kara Sea in the Russian Arctic, just 30 km south of the giant Bovanenkovo oil and…