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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Oil & Gas

The Quantification of Uncertainty in Reservoir Management

Nikki Jones
New developments in history matching improve uncertainty quantification and risk assessment in reservoir management. Improving the analysis of risk in field management is the Holy Grail of reservoir modelling and in…

The Present is the Key to the Past

Clif Jordan and Rick Schatzinger
The Principle of Uniformitarianism gives confidence in selecting well sites through looking at Holocene facies analogues. The Principle of Uniformitarianism states that the causes and rates of geologic processes that…

Integrating Data Types for Reservoir Characterisation

Scott Singleton, ION Geophysical
From microscopic core analysis of the wellbore to seismic data measurements of rock properties between wells, a multidisciplinary team is essential when solving exploration and production problems in complex reservoirs.…

New Oil Play Excites Australia

David Upton
Apache announced on 18 August that its shallow water Phoenix South-1 exploration well in permit WA-435-P, 180 km north of Port Hedland, had intersected at least four discrete oil columns…

The Weald Basin: Hot Spot or Hot Air?

Jane Whaley
Billions of barrels have been reported to lie under South East England, but how much of it is recoverable? There was great excitement in the newsrooms of the UK in…

PNG Lands on the Petroleum Map

David Upton
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is set to join the exclusive club of LNG exporting nations before mid-year when first cargoes ship from its US $19 billion LNG project. The ExxonMobil-operated facility was completed ahead of schedule…

Improving Reservoir Characterisation

Lucy MacGregor, RSI Inc.
Reservoir characterisation can be improved through the integrated analysis of CSEM, seismic and well log data. Determining reservoir geometry and properties from the surface is a challenging but important task.…

Keep your Eye on NWAAM

Will Thornton
The North West African Atlantic margin (NWAAM) is entering a new phase of activity. Despite the fact that many of the established petroliferous basins of Africa are entering the mature…

Ronda Uno

Ian Davison and Theodore Faull, Earthmoves Ltd.
Mexico’s first exploration licensing round is a landmark event in the history of oil exploration in Latin America Mexico’s oil industry is opening up to the private sector after a 76-year…

The Value of Monitoring Fractures

Charles Sicking, Global Geophysical
Real time frac monitoring shows the progression of fractures opened during the fracking process, knowledge which can impact drilling decisions. Unconventional reservoirs are a growing part of the oil and…

Wytch Farm Ploughs Ahead

Will Thornton
Celebrated as the largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe (~500 MM bo), the Wytch Farm field in Dorset, southern England, is an iconic field to the thousands of geoscientists and…

A Golden Age for Gas?

Ken White
Will shale gas be a game changer for Brazil? At the 2012 Rio Oil and Gas Conference it was revealed that the ANP had commenced a survey of Brazil’s shale…