Great Yarmouth: An Unlikely E&P Hub
Tucked away about as far to the east as you can get in the UK is a small fishing town that for over 50 years has played an important role…
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Potential Risks from Outdated Technology
Embrace modern technologies to assure organisational and operational security. Anyone who has been in the oil and gas sector for the last 20 years or so has seen vast improvements…
Minute To Read
Brent Benchmark Adds Troll The price of Brent crude has been avidly watched as the basis of comparison for crude oil prices around the world since the 1980s, but the…
Licensing Update: Somalia
In recent years, Somalia has made great strides on the road to effectively exploiting its natural resources. The Somalian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is now operating from a…
Back to Source Rocks: Part II
What makes a sedimentary rock an effective petroleum source rock? A review of the analytical methods used to characterize source rocks for successful petroleum exploration and production.
The First Geological Map of Eastern Europe
Work done by Polish scientists in the early 1800s laid down the foundations of the modern oil industry. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the northern segment of…
Exploring Towards a Deficit
The oil industry is not able to find enough liquids on a global basis to replace what is being produced. The good news is that a potentially supergiant discovery (i.e.…
Licensing Update: Somalia
In recent years, Somalia has made great strides on the road to effectively exploiting its natural resources. The Somalian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is now operating from a…
PNG: Reprocessing Offers Offshore Potential
Reprocessing of vintage seismic has opened up new frontier exploration potential in Papua New Guinea. In recent years Papua New Guinea (PNG) has hit the industry headlines with the development…
Mapping the Seafloor
GEBCO plans a comprehensive mapping of the entire ocean floor. It has been said that our present world view and comprehension of the Earth’s processes is a direct result of…
Oil Prices and Crises
A Brief History of Booms and Busts: Part I Foreward Most of us know about the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 and the market crashes of 1985 and 2014…
GTL: More Than Just a Pipe Dream?
Converting natural gas into a liquid has been possible for a long time but has not been cost effective. This environmentally-friendly technique is finally becoming more viable, at all scales…