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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Technology

EOR, Local Skills Development and Sustainability

Marthe Åsnes Birkeland and Gudmund Olsen, AGR
Multidisciplinary interaction and local skills development proved critical when analysing scenarios for advanced chemical EOR in a Sudanese field, thus enabling future sustainability for the vital Sudanese petroleum industry. Following…

Codes and Ciphers – PART I

Guest Contributors: Dirk-Jan Van Manen and Johan O. A. Robertsson (ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics). Editors: Lasse Amundsen and Martin Landrø.
Decoding Nature’s Disorder Information is the resolution of uncertainty. Claude Shannon. Talk clearly and not so far-fetched as a cipher. Medieval – origin unknown. In many languages the word ‘cipher’…

Searching for Stratigraphic Traps

Jane Whaley talks to Robert Trice
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

Cheryl Goreski, Quantec Geoscience and Alysha Dominico, Tangible Words
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

Lasse Amundsen, Statoil, Martin Landrø and Børge Arntsen, NTNU Trondheim
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

Joe Kuhach, Nsolv
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

Lasse Amundsen, Statoil and Martin Landrø, NTNU Trondheim. With guest contributor: Eivind Frømyr, PGS
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

Guest Contributor: Christine Fichler; Column Editors: Martin Landrø and Lasse Amundsen
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.

Ali Haq
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

Thomas Smith
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

Thomas Smith
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,…