A packed program
From the far north to the far south, the upcoming NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries Conference will be discussing exploration success across all areas of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Valuable…
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The Geologist’s Hammer
Few of us today are fortunate enough to have had careers as field geologists (see GEO ExPro Vol. 19, No. 1, page 72), but almost all geologists will have undertaken…
Drilling into subsurface data continues to be a matter of stuck pipe
Do you want to do a local geological reconnaissance for your project through looking at a previously drilled well onshore UK? Be prepared to enter into a long email conversation…
Finalists for Exploration Innovation Prize 2022 announced
At the upcoming NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries Conference, taking place June 8 & 9 in Oslo next month, you will be able to hear the latest about the three…
Oil inclusions reveal new insights on timing of North Sea hydrocarbon generation
Two radically different opinions concerning the temperatures of oil expulsion from Upper Jurassic source rocks in the North Sea have recently been put forward, as we reported on several occasions.…
Jurassic Deep-Sea Fishing
You could be forgiven for thinking Mary was the first to discover ichthyosaur and plesiosaur fossils, but specimens of ichthyosaur vertebrae and propodial (limb) bones and pliosaur vertebral centra were…
Could there be something useful in report “Final_final_v3”?
The most important way of reporting these days seems to be PowerPoints or exported PDF’s. These documents, along with other legacy material, tend to be hidden away in project folders…
Digitalisation key to ensure continued production from mature fields
“70% of global oil production is taking place from mature fields,” said Babak Moradi from Three60Energy at the start of his talk on Day 2 of the annual DigEx conference…
DIGEX Day 1 – from “Never” to “Next year”
“Once the project is finished, we go on holiday and you can think of ways to integrate the data into your exploration workflows.” This is what Malgorzata Kusak said to…
Misleading presentation of TOC data
Paul Farrimond admits that data on Total Organic Carbon (TOC) from source tocks as a function of burial depth is hard to find. I therefore appreciate that he publishes TOC…
The spectacular overburden of the Cambo field
A 546 km2 3D seismic reflection survey was acquired in 2012 to better map the Cambo discovery and plan subsequent drilling. With the news this week that Shell and Siccar…
Is North Sea earthquake linked to the Marflo lineament?
It is not a surprise to see that the earthquake that hit the Northern North Sea earlier this week generated a significant amount of attention. Especially in Norway people felt…