Bangladesh Offers New Exploration Arena
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has delineated the maritime border between India and Bangladesh. The peaceful settlement of the border dispute is a positive step in improving…
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Looking Back to Predict the Future
Conventional exploration continues to be very successful, but 2014 is a make or break year for frontier deepwater exploration. One can learn a lot from looking at even the recent past.…
Bakken’s Billion Barrel Milestone
The Bakken shale means that North Dakota is now the second largest producing state in the US. Late in 2013 the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated crude oil production…
Transferring Skills Mitigates Risk
Unlocking the potential of skills transfer to local communities is vital for mitigating risk in Africa. The discovery of huge hydrocarbon reserves will potentially transform East Africa. International energy companies are set to…
How Equal is Equal?
The results of a recent online ‘Global Diversity and Inclusion’ survey of over 3,000 oil and gas professionals worldwide suggests that career prospects for women in the hydrocarbon industry have…
Tales of the unexpected
The Brent oil price is expected to be marginally lower, at US$106/barrel in 2015, down from US$108/barrel in 2013. Non-OPEC oil production will increase more than growth in demand until…
The Digital Oilfield: Managing People Transition
Why has people transition proved so difficult in oil and gas projects? It is well established that successful digital oilfield deployment projects require careful attention to ‘People’, ‘Process’ and ‘Technology’.…
The Magnificent Southern Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rocky Mountains rise majestically from the interior plains of Alberta, and the mechanisms which formed them are well illustrated on the scenic drive from Calgary to Banff and…
River of Oil – Early Oil Exploration in Iraq
Knowledgeable but squabbling geologists; summary dismissals; camel transport; ‘lagoonal’ oil; and 40m-high gushers. All in a day’s work for the first oil explorers in Iraq.
Turkey – A Key Transit State in Crisis
Turkey is slipping into authoritarianism and conflict. How stable is the West’s key ally and oil supply route? Everything appeared to be going so well. In power since his landslide…
Torres del Paine – The Patagonian Diamond.
Patagonia plays host to numerous geological marvels, including the famous Torres del Paine granite intrusion – a stunning spot in a fantastic wilderness. The screams of a group of Guanacos…
Safeguarding Your Petrotechnical Professionals
Oiling the machine with a new contract between management and the petrotechnical professional. The continued search for oil and gas relies in equal measure on good management and superior petrotechnical…