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Developments in seismic data processing techniques

Alan Bembridge, Geo Resources Consultancy International

July 19, 2023

Dedicated software programs employ several techniques, including non-linear traveltime tomography, land-specific FWI, bending ray Kirchhoff migration, anisotropic depth imaging, and horizon-consistent velocity modeling, to achieve obtaining accurate earth models. The…

An industry insider for more than 40 years

Henk Kombrink

July 13, 2023

“I started my career in 1977 as a geologist with Decca Survey, working offshore on shallow, high-resolution seismic surveys; I was always the only woman on board and I think…

From Statfjord Øst to Suriname – this week’s subsurface news and observations

Henk Kombrink

July 7, 2023

Longboat – Acquiring interest in Statfjord Øst A small surprise this week was to see Longboat Energy acquiring a 4.8% share from INPEX in one of the most mature fields…

Should academia cut ties with the fossil fuel industry?

Henk Kombrink

July 5, 2023

“A ridiculous question.” It was one of the comments we got on the poll featuring the question stated above. Nevertheless, we received a total of 382 votes, which is our…

Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?

Henk Kombrink

June 23, 2023

Twenty years ago, the first edition of Devex took place in Aberdeen. At the time, the conference revolved around extending the life of oil and gas fields. “Not much has…

95% of seismic data was unused – for the wrong reasons

Henk Kombrink

June 22, 2023

“My first start-up failed”, said Bill Shea at the EAGE Annual in Vienna recently. “But, maybe it was meant to be, because the second time it went much better and…

“If I do it again, I want to do it even better”

Henk Kombrink

June 15, 2023

At some point in the last few years, Anders Kihlberg asked himself: “What were the best years of my life?” Soon he came to the conclusion that it was the…

An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem

Henk Kombrink

June 14, 2023

Shell is a large company, and with that comes the existence of siloes across the organisation. Management in Shell recognised that as a problem, and therefore it created spin-off company…

From oil and gas to geothermal

Henk Kombrink

June 13, 2023

Now known as S3 Smart Seismic Solutions, I met with Jean-Baptiste Chalvidan and Patrick Robert at the EAGE Annual in Vienna last week. “Compared to the years with CGG, where…

What a meeting at a conference can do

Henk Kombrink

June 5, 2023

“As many people from my generation, I started my career with Saga Petroleum”, says Tore Karlsson. Having graduated as a geophysicist from the University of Bergen, at Saga he was…

Oil is out, CCS and Geothermal are in at EGC1

Henk Kombrink

May 22, 2023

When the plenary keynotes concluded on the first day of the Energy Geoscience Conference (EGC1) in Aberdeen last week, a very interesting thing happened. The room, which had been pretty…

Energy Geoscience Conference

Graham Goffey, EGC1 Conference Board Chair

May 10, 2023

The Energy Geoscience Conference – EGC – is a new conference series launched by the Geological Society and the GESGB under the strapline ‘powering the energy transition through subsurface collaboration’.…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

In the News

Developments in seismic data processing techniques

An industry insider for more than 40 years

From Statfjord Øst to Suriname – this week’s subsurface news and observations

Should academia cut ties with the fossil fuel industry?

Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?

95% of seismic data was unused – for the wrong reasons

“If I do it again, I want to do it even better”

An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem

From oil and gas to geothermal

What a meeting at a conference can do

Oil is out, CCS and Geothermal are in at EGC1

Energy Geoscience Conference

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