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…
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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…
100 Years of Amazing Women
A review of ‘Anomalies – Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917 – 2017’ by Robbie Rice Gries Competition GEO ExPro will be raffling a copy of this book on our…
Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry
Ahmed Hashmi, Global Head of Upstream Technology, BP, talks about the big data future. What do you understand by big data? Big data is the challenge that many industries, including…
Mexico Revival
The revival of successful exploration is a much-needed breather for the Mexican oil industry. Production has been decreasing in Mexico since 2007, in recent years by almost 9% annually, primarily…
Hubbert: A Life-Long Quest for the Bigger Picture
The Oracle of Oil The Oracle of Oil by Mason Imman. W.W. Norton & Co. Ltd, 2016 The name Marion King Hubbert is synonymous with the term ‘peak oil’, derided…
Arthur Beeby-Thompson: Oil Pioneer
Born in Northampton in 1873 and known simply as ‘Beeby-Thompson’, his achievements were such that the foreword to his auto-biography was written by Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the USA…
Resource Nationalism in the Caspian
The proliferation of resource nationalism in the Caspian Sea littoral states is often perceived as a risk – but should it be considered an opportunity? The impact of globalisation has…