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…
Technology
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…
“From Lykkeland to AI”
Recent advances in exploration technology is in the focus for the 3rd time in NCS Exploration in Fornebu outside Oslo. However, the emphasis will be on how to apply these…
Does CSEM have a future?
Marine Controlled-Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) information has been available to our industry for over 15 years. It’s thus hard to consider it “new technology” any more. Its use remains patchy, data-quality…
“Another surprising well”
There is certainly no doubt that the quality of both imaging and de-risking has improved tremendously through 50+ years of exploration on the NCS. Nevertheless, the industry has a long…
Shaping the future
“Now is the time to put technology back on the agenda and revisit how it can play a key role in shaping a sustainable future for the industry and society,”…
Finding missed pay
The analysis method has been named SATLOG, and virtually all wells on the Norwegian shelf have now been analyzed. The method is described in GEO 02/2019 and will be explained…
Technology is Key
Recent advances in exploration technology is for the 3rd time in focus in the conference NCS Exploration in Fornebu outside Oslo. However, the emphasis will be on how to apply…
UK’s National Data Repository launched
The new UK National Data Depository (NDR) online platform (https://ndr.ogauthority.co.uk/) is freely available to everyone. The 130 terabytes of released data consist of well, geophysical, field and infrastructure data covering…
Permanent borehole VSP
The SigmaWave tool is based on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology, which is a revolutionary technology that converts an optical-fiber into a linear array of discrete vibration sensors. SigmaWave is…