Technology

The Supercontinent Cycle: Patterns and Impacts

Plate tectonics comprises three inter-linked mega-cycles: the Rock cycle, the Wilson cycle, and the supercontinent cycle, which we explore in more detail here. The geography of continents and oceans has…

4 seismic surveys in one

The subsurface of the North Cape Basin in the Barents Sea is full of salt that has formed diapirs in places, even creating overhangs. “Therefore, significant local velocity differences occur,”…

A well’s headshot

Pandion Energy shows how data resulting from the Released Wells Initiative can be used to further investigate reservoir quality in the Cara discovery.

Surpassing human capabilities

A recent global machine learning competition resulted in new algorithms that can predict lithology from well logs as good as, or even better than humans.