Technology

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…

Rich Petroleum Source Rocks

An inventory of petroleum source rocks in the World’s major sedimentary basins show that six geological intervals in Earth’s history generated over 90% of the World’s conventional oil and gas…

Supercomputers for Beginners – Part II

Energy companies need ever larger computers. This article is the second of three articles giving an introduction to supercomputers . Here, we look at the design of parallel software. Beta:…