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Largest OBN survey in the North Sea completed

November 26, 2020

The OBN Cornerstone 2020 multi-client survey in the UK Central North Sea commenced in March 2020 and has already received significant industry interest and prefunding. Approximately 1,650 km² of long-offset,…

And the winner is…the human with the machine

Henk Kombrink

November 19, 2020

329 teams from around the world signed for the competition. 148 of them submitted at least one solution. 2200 solutions were scored against the blind well dataset of 10 wells.…

Landscapes under the North Sea: Geology and Offshore Wind

November 12, 2020

It’s now well known that the North Sea was an area of exposed land during the Last Glacial Maximum, around 25,000 years ago, when Global Mean Sea Level was much…

New subsidence map illustrates effect of Groningen gas production

Henk Kombrink

November 3, 2020

Published jointly by the Netherlands Centre for Geodesy and Geo-informatics (NCG), SkyGeo and TU Delft, the map shows the movement of billions of measurement points across the entire country. The…

Are you sure there is no wind farm planned in your exploration licence?

October 28, 2020

A new interactive mapping application that reveals the location of every energy-related site in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is expected to bring real benefits for exploration and the search…

The parameter geophysicists (almost) forgot

Henk Kombrink

October 12, 2020

Early 2019, Wintershall Norway shut in production from the Maria field. It was a major blow to the company, as it was a flagship development and the company’s first own-operated…

GeoStreamer X Viking Graben

October 7, 2020

The highly prolific Viking Graben has seen spectacular exploration successes over the last decades and is to date a coveted area with multiple proven and partially stacked plays covering Eocene…

eFTG Reduces Hydrocarbon Exploration Risk in Egypt

Mark Davies and Gary Barnes, AustinBridgeporth

October 3, 2020

The first outing of the world’s most sophisticated airborne gravity gradiometer has already yielded fascinating insights into the unexplored Egyptian subsurface; improving geological understanding and reducing hydrocarbon exploration risk. In…

Interactive Software for Pre-Stack Seismic Data Processing

Bill Shea, Sharp Reflections

September 17, 2020

In 2006, a ‘moonshot’ R&D project was launched to develop interactive software for visualising and processing pre-stack seismic data and is now being used to monitor oil and gas production…