An urgent challenge!
“It is generally agreed that the NCS holds billions of barrels yet to be discovered. However, as an industry we are finding those barrels at an ever-slower pace”, says Erling…
Technology
The Technology Enigma
There is no silver bullet, says Graeme Bagley, Head of Global Exploration and Appraisal with Westwood Global Energy. Therefore, he continues, factors that impact exploration performance include 1) maturity of…
Technology is not (!) key to success
The petroleum geoscience community has not improved their ability to predict the outcome of exploration drilling, according to Stig-Morten Knutsen, Assistant Director, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. At NCS Exploration May 21-22,…
Deep Blue – one of three finalists
According to the criteria, The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded to a license group, company, team or person who during the last couple of years have given a courageous and…
Top Seis – one of three finalists
According to the criteria, The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded to a license group, company, team or person who during the last couple of years have given a courageous and…
Three finalists have been selected
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded to a license group, company, team or person who during the last couple of years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in…
Integration is key
In the 1990’s 50% of discoveries were less than 30mboe on the Norwegian continental shelf. By the 2010’s 50% were less than 19mmboe. Over the same period, technical success rates…
Using AI and ML in exploration
Earth Science Analytics has been selected as one of nine candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize that will be awarded at this year’s NCS Exploration conference: Recent Advances in Exploration…
10 000 votes – so far
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…
P-Cable: Unsurpassed Resolution
“The P-Cable 3D system is an excellent starting point for achieving one-meter-scale resolution,” Nina Levedeva-Ivanova in VBPR writes in Leading Edge, November 2018. The P-Cable 3D system has now been…
eSeismic – reducing environmental noise
eSeismic was developed by PGS in cooperation with Equinor and the Norwegian Research Council. The technology has now been selected as one of nine candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize…
TopSeis – one of 9 candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize
TopSeis (full video) TopSeis has been selected as one of nine candidates for the Exploration Innovation Prize 2019. Here is the reasoning for the nomination given by the programme committee…