Technology

Finding big fields by detecting the smallest element

“We are changing the world of explo­ration,” says Denis Krysanov from He­ologic, when we meet on Teams. “I’m now planning on expanding Heologic’s operations in the United States,” he says.…

The human touch in reservoir modelling

As our 30-minute conversa­tion took place on a Tuesday morning in early September, three emails arrived in Bas­tian’s inbox. Three separate and unrelated enquiries from customers in Switzerland, Germany, and…

Seabed mapping – let AI do the work

“I spent days, if not weeks, trawling through high-resolution photos,” a geoscientist from an oil and gas company re­cently told me. Why did he do that? He carried out this…

“I’m exceptionally bullish about the future”

“As an industry, we have come a long way. From drilling vertical wells to slanted wells, then using slotted lin­ers in horizontal wells, via passive in­flow strategies to now active…

Finding the right needle in the haystack

The ultimate question every operator faces is whether there is room to arrest the decline of their producing field by in­vesting to increase the recovery factor. One of the most…

Shale 3.0

With reports that output from the US shale basins is creaming, combined with price pressure on production and environmental concerns, there has nev­er been a better time to invest in…