“Shooting a fish in a barrel”
Conversations at conferences are a good way to verify what people think. And there were many people at this week’s Seapex Conference; with more than 400 participants the number exceeded…
In the News
“I got kind of bored and underutilised sitting on the sidelines “refreshing” job pages”
“I decided to put my work out there and keep myself active, rather than just reposting work from others”, Jamie Vinnels wrote in an email. Jamie has been compiling subsurface…
An Exposed Salt Dome
The salt exposed here consists of halites of the Ara Salt, which was deposited around 540 million years ago during the earliest Cambrian. The core of the dome, where the…
“All the Beautiful Domes”
Royal Dutch Shell owed its origins to Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New…
Microfossils and the World of Chalk and Chert
Microfossils are those fossils that require a microscope to carry out fundamental identification. They are the fossils of a biologically diverse group of organisms, including microscopic algae, protists, and invertebrates,…
Download Africa Oil Week’s Post-Event Report Today
Africa Oil Week 2022 saw the continent define an assertive new position to determine how best to balance sustainability within its own needs. Across the five content streams these important…
Spotted at..
What was the main reason for you to attend the NCS Strategy conference? With a shift of consciousness (and policies) towards new energy for the net zero targets, my main…
Tasmania – a Geotourism Hotspot
Tasmania’s geodiversity is remarkable, representing every past geological period and climatic event. A journey by coach or car will immerse a visitor in one of the most mountainous places in…
Core photos of giant Groningen gas field publicly released
Following the release of the Groningen field static model in 2020, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM), in collaboration with a Data publication platform of Utrecht University (EPOS-NL), has now made available…
Geophysics and Petroleum Exploration in North America: A Time for Reflection
We take a look at the advent of ‘remote’ sensing and the adoption of seismology in petroleum exploration in North America.
The Rio Grande Rift
After compression built the Southern Rocky Mountains, Neogene extension split the range along its axis, opening the 1,000-kilometre-long Rio Grande Rift. The rift has been active ever since, creating dramatic…
When the tramlines are missing
To assist geologists in orientating cores correctly in terms of what is up and what is down, the outside of the core is often marked with a red and yellow…