The winner is: A cutting-edge cutting project
Norway is probably the first country in the world where new value is added to data not many people think about very often: cuttings. Under the umbrella of the Released…
Technology
Technology competition: Three finalists – one winner
The prize is awarded each year at the NCS Exploration Conference, and every other year – in connection with the theme of the conference being Recent Advances in Exploration Technology…
Successful exploration through integrating 4D seismic data
Operator Equinor, together with partners Vår Energi (25%), Idemitsu Petroleum (15%) and Neptune Energy (15%), has added a unique discovery to the list of exploration successes in the greater Fram…
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XI – How Earth’s IR Photons are Transferred in the Atmosphere in the Presence of CO₂
Skydive with us into the quantum world and find out how Earth’s IR radiation is transferred in a plane-parallel troposphere in the presence of CO₂ molecules. At quite uncertain times…
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,”…
The importance of structured data
Barely 5% of available seismic data is utilized and geoscientists and engineers reportedly spend more than 50% of their time searching and assembling data.
Do I trust what is in the cloud or what is in my geomodel?
A wrap-up of last week’s DIGEX2021 Conference.
How Shell is redesigning the work of explorationists
Shell’s new digital venture is experimenting with new ways for explorers to work remotely and crowd-sourcing expertise.
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.
The use of public domain subsurface data in the spotlight
A consortium of Dutch companies launched a petition to support an open-source well database last week. It doesn’t happen often that companies initiate a debate this way.
QEMSCAN – the geological QR code
Through analysing hundreds of cuttings from a single well, depositional history and provenance changes are brought to life with the QEMSCAN technique.