A Global Ambition
With ten years as drilling engineer in Statoil, Lundin, VNG and AGR, and with experience from locations as far apart as the North Sea, the Middle East and Africa, Jim…
Technology
Shearwater enters deepwater OBS market
Shearwater GeoServices announces the award of a major Ocean Bottom Seismic deepwater ROV project, given from TGS and partner in the Gulf of Mexico, US. This will be the company’s…
TGS delivers multi-client OBN survey
TGS has announced that the processing of the northern half of its landmark ocean-bottom node (OBN) multi-client survey in the Norwegian North Sea is complete. “This is the biggest OBN…
DHIs works well for de-risking prospects
Flat spots are found to be the only Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHI) that improve the all-over technical success rate, compared to other applied DHIs, according to a new report by…
Large-scale collaboration
A large number of oil, service and tech companies are working together on developing a standardized open subsurface data platform.
– AI will replace skilled jobs
Do you have a specialized and well-paid job? Then machines are more likely to replace you.
Embracing open source data
Equinor sees the benefits in collaboration and data sharing. Since 2015, the company policy has been open source for all developed software.
A revolution in seismic interpretation
Ever since computers began to become part of everyday life for geologists and geophysicists, many have feared the evolution. The frightening scenario has been that the rapid increase in engine…
Targeting faster discoveries
– We view digitalization as a way to increase production and reserves, improve HSE and enabling an efficient end-to-end value chain, said Gro Gunnleikrud Haatvedt, Vice President Exploration and Development…
«Hockey stick» growth seen in NCS data
– Diskos has proven to be a successful solution for processing E&P data through shared storage and sharing, said Eric Toogood, head of the Diskos collaboration at the Norwegian Petroleum…
Designing human-machine interaction
– The evolution of the explorationist has been step-wise; from the analogue geoscientist in the 1960 – 1980s to the digital geoscientist in the 1990 – 2010s and now, in…
How is your company preparing for the next licensing rounds?
For each well drilled on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) follows a significant amount of data. As an example, the authorities require the operators to report 38 standard well documents…