Equinor completes world’s first logistics operation with a drone to an offshore installation
A drone flew a 3D-printed part for the lifeboat system from the Mongstad base to the Troll A platform in the North Sea.
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Integrating rock physics and seismic for enhanced understanding of Barents Sea prospectivity
James Moore and Roberto Ruiz from PGS explain how the integration of seismic data and rockAVO provides a reliable interactive toolset to understand seismic responses and their relation to geological…
CGG adds second Azimuth to Northern Viking Graben multi-client survey
CGG announced today the commencement of a new multi-client 3D survey in the Northern North Sea. The survey will provide a second azimuth over CGG’s existing Northern Viking Graben (NVG)…
TGS Acquires Pioneering New OBN Survey in Atlantic Margin
TGS, provider of multi-client geoscience data for exploration and production companies, has today announced the successful deployment of a pioneering sparse ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Atlantic Margin…
Uncovering new petroleum plays through analysing 600,000 cutting samples
The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, on behalf of project participants, has embarked on a major exercise to analyse all cuttings from all released E&P wells.
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part IX – How Carbon Dioxide Emits IR Photons
Skydive with us into the quantum world, where we provide to those unafraid of molecular energy transfer an answer to the question: what happens to Earth’s radiated infrared (IR) photons…
The Wilson Cycle and Petroleum Plays
The Wilson Cycle describes the opening and closing of oceanic basins as a result of plate movements. It provides a scientific framework to follow the creation, development and destruction of…
What is Digital Twin Technology – And How is it Used in Oil and Gas?
The idea of the ‘digital twin’ is catching on in the oil and gas industry. But what exactly is it, and how can it help? A digital twin is a…
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part VIII – How Carbon Dioxide Absorbs Earth’s IR Radiation
Skydive with us into the quantum world and find out how carbon dioxide molecules absorb thermal IR radiation. “I call this Spirit, unknown hitherto, by the new name of Gas,…
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part VII – Arrhenius’ Greenhouse Rule for Carbon Dioxide
Here, we investigate the relationship between radiative forcing (heat warming) of carbon dioxide and its concentration in the atmosphere to better understand climate feedback and sensitivity. In Part II of…
China’s Deep, Hot, Harsh Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Spur Innovation
The experiences, lessons learned, and best practices of Chinese geoscientists working on difficult hydrocarbon reservoirs can be of benefit to others. In the quest to produce hydrocarbons from China’s famously…
Seismic acquisition reinvented
World’s first Ultra High Density (UHD) multi-client 3D hybrid seismic acquisition in the Norwegian North Sea