Reservoir monitoring
The transition from technology development to commercialisation is a very critical phase of any technology innovation company. A main shareholder securing this transition as well as giving valuable input for…
Oil & Gas
Uganda: Key to Future Hotspots in Landlocked Africa?
The East African Rift System is now one of the world’s ‘exploration hotspots’, potentially just as significant for landlocked Africa and its underexplored rift systems as the Barnett Shale in…
Reservoir Dynamics and the New Geophysics
Why do time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys of producing reservoirs ‘work’ and why do we make observations from them that appear to be related to production? When a reservoir – any…
The Great Burgan Field, Kuwait
Second only to Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar, the supergiant Burgan field in Kuwait was discovered by a series of wells drilled during 1938-1952. Sitting on a huge structural anticline and occupying…
Geological Expression: A New Angle on Seismic Interpretation
Geological Expression utilises sophisticated technology to deliver dramatic gains in productivity through a workflow whose structure will be familiar to seismic interpreters. onathan Henderson, Managing Director of ffA, brings us…
Workstations Promise New Life for Geology
Is the workstation killing geology – or bringing it back to life and having a revolutionary effect on the field – and the future – of exploration and operational geology?…
Tight Oil Plays
Horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing technologies that have enabled companies to unlock large amounts of gas from shaley source rocks are now targeting similar rocks for oil and gas liquids.…
‘Impala MPS’ Leaps Reservoir Modelling Barriers
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes has introduced a next generation geological facies module into its JewelSuite™ reservoir modelling product. Reservoir geologists in the hydrocarbon business today have to deal with…
Enhanced Oil Recovery – Utilising Captured CO2
Can the UK return to oil self-sufficiency? When governments get out of the way, remarkable things can happen. For example, some industry pundits now say that it is perfectly possible…
Colombia Rediscovered
Colombia’s regulatory reforms are paying dividends, with dozens of new oil and gas discoveries over the past two years – yet ‘rediscovered’ older fields are carrying the country to new…
Libya – the next chapter
After more than six months of civil unrest and over 40 years of an increasingly wayward and unpredictable military dictatorship, the people of Libya are taking stock – and that…
Leveraging Complex Geologies
The ability of reservoir models to leverage seismic and accommodate complex geologies ensures robust and reliable models, improved decision-making, more justifiable investments, and improved field performance. Including the building of…