Relationship Building is the Key to Success
Iman Hill has risen through the ranks from petroleum engineer to senior management roles with Shell and BG. She talks to GeoExpro about the skills needed to thrive in the…
Portraits
It’s All About Data
“Our ability to accumulate and add value to data underpins our business,” says Dr. Richard Fowler, Managing Director of Fugro Robertson, the North Wales based data and information company. He…
Rock and Roll and all that … Seismic!
Hank Hamilton is doing a job he loves,helping steadily grow the successful seismic company, TGS-NOPEC. And he still has time for the occasional outing as bass player with the TGS…
“We are both very stubborn”
Only some eight years after the idea stroke on a flight out of Houston, two innovative physicists can claim that seabed logging has been fully accepted by the conservative oil…
Serving both academe and the industry
He is known throughout the oil industry as an exceptional petroleum geologist and to his many university and professional students as an outstanding and inspirational teacher. Few people are as…
Billions of barrels to his credit
Richard Hardman, geologist by profession, explorationist by heart, has built a successful carrieer in international exploration over the past 40 years. His thirst for finding ever more oil and gas…
New dimensions in an old game
There seems to be a general pattern for the introduction of new technologies in our industry. At an early stage, you need to convince management why it makes sense to…
Providing Real Time Solutions
Logging While Drilling (LWD) is increasingly gaining popularity, with customers starting to look at drilling and evaluation services with a value-based, rather than a pure cost-based approach. GEo ExPro talked…
Let’s Talk About Shale
Ken Cronin is CEO of UKOOG, which represents the onshore oil and gas industry in the UK, and is therefore heavily involved in ongoing discussions about unconventional exploration in the…