Stories From Deep Time
How one man’s passion for the fossils of ‘an uninteresting rock’ has resulted in a unique collection. Steve Etches is a man with a passion – and a very crowded…
Geology & Geophysics
The Search for Oil in the South-Eastern Barents Sea
Broadband imaging improves the understanding of a prospective area on the Finnmark platform. For more than 40 years Russia and Norway were in dispute over a 175,000 km2 area in the…
Black & Blue
Using blue sky science data to aid in de-risking black gold exploration. For nearly 50 years the International Ocean Discovery Program has drilled, cored and measured the earth beneath the sea…
Towed Streamer EM for Success
See the ‘Big Picture’ and the ‘Details’. Using a towed streamer EM system makes it possible to use the same data to determine resistivity on a scale of a few…
The predictive power of palynology
In a major turnaround for a profession that fell out of favour in the 1980s, a number of palynology consultancies are growing rapidly and struggling to meet the demand for…
Source Rock Subcropping in the Baffin Bay
Seabed samples from the Baffin Bay document an active hydrocarbon system offshore northwest Greenland. The northwest Greenland shelf is a frontier petroleum province in the arctic Baffin Bay. Limited seismic…
Exploring for mammoths
Despite 6 dry wells and limited interest from the oil industry, the search for oil and gas in the large areas west of Greenland will continue. Optimism is greater than…
Reservoirs come in all shapes and sizes, and some are more difficult than others
New seismic streamer methodology has facilitated resolution of complex sand bodies called injecties. Reservoirs come in all shapes and sizes and some are more difficult than others