The Hoop Area: New Testing Ground for Geophysical Technologies
The Hoop Basin was named after Der Hoop, a ship belonging to one of the great Arctic explorers, William Barents. Meaning ’hope’ in his native Dutch, this continues to reflect…
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Marine Seismic Part VII: Fish Are Big Talkers
Of the 31,900 species of fish living today we know that more than 1,000 make sounds, ranging in frequency from 50 to 8,000 Hz. For most fishes, the sonic mechanism…
Smart Fields: People, Processes and Technology
The implementation of Smart Fields solutions has enabled Shell to increase production, reduce deferment, and improve ultimate recovery while reducing costs and HSSE exposure. Intelligent digital oil or gas fields…
Illuminating Resolution
The latest developments in high-tech seismic vessels and ‘mega’ channel counts both on and offshore have driven a revolution in seismic data acquisition. From the Archive ‘Cover Story’. To subscribe…
Finding sweet-spots and quantifying recovery potential in unconventional plays
Using the Montney Play as an example of how a Common Risk Segment Mapping approach can be applied to quantifying Estimated Ultimate Recovery in pervasive hydrocarbon systems. When liquids-rich parts…
Real-Time Data = Proactive Field Decisions
Recent developments in permanent downhole monitoring provide accurate and stable measurements even in extreme high pressure/high temperature reservoir conditions. The integration of multiple measurements as they happen allows operators to…
Ideas and Innovation
“We usually find oil in a new place with old ideas. Sometimes, we find oil in an old place with a new idea, but we seldom find much oil in an…
Shale Gas in South Africa
‘South Africa’ and ‘energy giant’ are words infrequently strung together, as the country has almost no conventional onshore or offshore hydrocarbons of note. However, over the past couple of years…
Geophysics: A Simple Guide to Volumetrics
A Simple Guide to Volumetrics We start this article with an example that many geoscientists may find uncomfortable, if not downright contentious. A top structure depth map from a depth…
Gas Hydrates – Part VIII
Hydrates in Outer Space (1) Today found widespread on Earth wherever stability conditions are met and an ample supply of natural gas is present, methane hydrate was originally thought to…
Gas Hydrates – Part VI
Hydrates in the Arctic (I) ‘You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about…
Three Disappointments in the Barents Sea
None of Statoil’s three wells in the Barents Sea in 2014 were associated with EM anomalies of any significance. It is therefore not surprising that not one of them proved…