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Connecting operators and geologists

GeoPlacer.com is a recently launched website that connects competence-assessed wellsite and operations geologists with clients, which officially opened online registration for operators at PETEX 2012 in London. Since its unveiling…

Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains

A new book describes the processes involved in mountain-building and sheds light on the significance of orogenesis to the petroleum industry. Through the centuries, people have been drawn to mountains…

Historical Oil Documentary Films

A chronicle of historical documentary films on oil: your parents and grandparents may have watched these on their old TV sets, but you can now see them on YouTube! Although…

Kenya: Reality Check

After the excitement of the finds off Mozambique and Tanzania in recent years, the prospectivity of the east African coastline has had a reality check following the outcome of the…

Back-Reef to Basin Depths

Situated adjacent to the very prolific Permian Basin is one of the earth’s greatest and most studied carbonate depositional systems, the Permian Reef Complex of New Mexico and west Texas.…

Thirteen years in the life of a super-major

In a rare, candid interview with a Wall Street oil analyst, Lee Raymond, CEO of ExxonMobil from 1999 to 2005, was asked what was the one issue that kept him…

Industry Standard Helps Decision Making

The energy industry is steadily adopting drilling data exchange standards Standards have been around for many years, and are steadily being adopted. In the oil industry almost all the major…

Fully integrated geoscience group

From the beginning of February 2013, all the geoscience divisions of Fugro will be incorporated into their new home in CGG, creating a fully integrated Geoscience group which the company…

Pipeline attacks in Nigeria

Attacks on pipelines have become commonplace in the oil-rich Niger Delta, and are symptomatic of the unrest in that volatile province. Previously the attacks were often the work of militants,…

A Shadow of its Former Self

Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill: six years of stop-go progress on oil industry reform has resulted in a bill that falls far short of its original transparency and revenue-generation goals With…

Egypt Déjà Vu

After weeks of grassroots campaigns, mass protests in Egypt erupted in July, culminating in the overthrow of President Morsi in what was effectively a military coup. Two and a half…