A workflow for success in shales
As with conventional plays, the economic case for developing and producing an unconventional field is based on how much resource exists, whether it is gas or oil, and how much…
Oil & Gas
Burma: Bid rounds both onshore and offshore
Myanmar, or Burma as it was previously known, is a south-east Asian country covering a total land area of approximately 678,500 km2 flanked by India and Bangladesh to the west, Thailand…
Exploration update: Libya, Qatar, Chile, Egypt
Libya: first Success for Sonatrach Source: IHS. Sonatrach’s first well on what is highly prospective acreage has been completed as an oil and gas discovery. Wildcat A1-96/1 is in Area…
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…
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
In 1991, the US-led Operation Desert Storm drew the occupying Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. The retreating Iraqis set fire to over 700 Kuwaiti oil wells, half of which were…
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…