Technology

Searching for Stratigraphic Traps

Historic drilling and production data can be used to enhance exploration strategies focused on stratigraphic and subtle combination traps. Searching for Stratigraphic Traps Stratigraphic and Subtle Combination Traps. (Allan et…

Augmenting Seismic in Challenging Resource-Rich Areas

Just as 3D seismic improved oil and gas exploration, new technology is helping identify oil and gas resources in high definition in areas of permafrost, volcanic cover and heavy oil.…

Supercomputers for Beginners – Part IV

Quantum Computers God does not play dice with the universe. Albert Einstein The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for Quantum Entanglement, which…

A Cleaner Future for Heavy Oil Extraction

Climate change has raised questions about the future of carbon-intensive industries, including the development of unconventional oil reserves. But emerging technology from Canada is proving that heavy oil extraction can…

Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond PART VI: Towards a Ghost-Free Solution

PGS launched the ‘ghost-free’ GeoStreamer GeoSource solution in 2011: a time- and depth-distributed source using sub-sources operated at specific depths and time delays, attacking the source-ghost effect in seismic data.…

Gravity for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Can an unexplored sedimentary basin be unravelled by gravity? How can gravity in cross-disciplinary workflows estimate the base of salt domes and gas saturation in shallow sedimentary traps ? Read…

Iceland. Harnessing the Earth.

Iceland is one of the pioneers in the use of geothermal energy, both for heating homes and generating electricity. Iceland is a country shaped by and reliant on its geology…

Identifying Potential Oil Zones in Tight Reservoirs

Low-cost epifluorescence microscope techniques have delineated a prospective, relatively untested oil-prone fairway in the Cane Creek shale play, Paradox Basin, Utah. When it comes to liquid-rich shale production and potential,…

Drone Magic

Photographs acquired through unmanned aerial vehicles are revolutionising digital outcrop models, allowing geoscientists unprecedented insight into subsurface reservoirs. “When developing an oil field or, for that matter, any subsurface resource,…

The Digital Oilfield Are We There Yet?

A complete and integrated workflow for reservoir and production management. The last few years have seen a growing focus on the digital oilfield and a future environment where operators integrate,…

Supercomputers for Beginners – Part III. GPU-Accelerated Computing

Many TOP500 supercomputers today use both CPUs and GPUs to give the best of both worlds: GPU processing to perform mathematically intensive computations on very large data sets, and CPUs…