Ken Glennie – A Petroleum Pioneer
Ken Glennie, Honorary Professor of Geology at Aberdeen University and renowned author of three books, several co-edited publications and over 50 single-author and co-authored papers, has led the sort of…
Portraits
A Change of Viewpoint
Christian Höcker spent over twenty years with European super giant Shell, where he witnessed many changes, before moving to a completely different working environment in small start-up company JOA Oil…
Marine CSEM – what’s the future like?
Offshore Electromagnetic surveying, CSEM, was commercialized in 2002 as a new exploration technology for finding hydrocarbons. Following some seven years of trial and failure, we have asked one of the…
An Unusual Route to success
A move from Drilling Fluids Engineering to Human Resources allowed Jatinder Peters to rise to one of the highest levels in ONGC – and gave her the opportunity to encourage…
On AAPG, Oil, and Geoscience
Although geologists working in the industry have access to tremendous subsurface data, relatively few of the data become public domain, says Dr. John Lorenz, President of the American Association of…
Reaching Out
Recognized as an expert in Gulf of Mexico deep-water seismic stratigraphy, Dr. Paul Weimer is now bringing geology to young students “in the way they learn–through animation.” The son of…
Using 4D Seismic
4D geophysics, in particular 4D seismic, has come of age. Repeated surveys with or without permanent receivers are now increasingly being used in monitoring production. This applies in particular to…
Making More and Bigger Discoveries
A significant number of discoveries have been made on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) for the last two years. Even more important, the trend is towards making bigger finds. Since…
Possible Oversupply
Peak oil will happen, eventually, but possibly not before the 2030s. In the meantime, we may be faced with oversupply, partly driven by increased production in Iraq. Energy Statistics Rystad…
”I’m just a simple geologist”
His career as an explorer started in the wilderness when twelve years old only. More than four decades as a geologist has made him into a true, global adventurer. Prologue:…
Conference Provides Truly Global Perspective
Dr. Bernie Vining, Regional Director for consultants Gaffney, Cline & Associates, is Chairman of the Technical Committee for the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference. He talked to GeoExPro about the Conference…
Strong – after all these Years
The resources in the North Sea created the possibilities. People and their knowledge created the technology. Anders Farestveit created Geco. For posterity, he will be the only world champion in…