For some people, the pandemic came at the right time. That certainly applies to wellsite geologists Amin, Ammar and Rafi representing BITCAP, a new start-up that released its first commercial…
When a country where some previous exploration efforts took place decides to run another licensing round in an attempt to attract interest from the global exploration community, legacy data quickly…
“Deeply misleading”, that’s how Thomas Halsey describes the commonly cited phrase “Data is the new oil”. At least when it comes to data held by the upstream industry. The main…
Geochemical analyses focused on characterising oil are frequently challenged by contamination with oil-based muds (OBM). This renders the results either uncertain or in some cases unusable, particularly in solvent extraction…
Until very recently, seismic acquisition companies only “saw” the data resulting from a marine survey when the vessel returned to shore. Of course, basic quality control of the data always…
“In a way, we have benefitted from the slowdown in drilling activity”, says Steve Rait from Reservoir Group when we meet at the company’s coring headquarters just north of Europe’s…
For sedimentologists, describing the grain size of core samples is key because it provides valuable information about the sedimentary environment, depositional processes, petrophysical properties, and the history of the area…
David Wade, Sissa Stefanowicz, Erik Anthonissen and Alex Cullum - Equinor
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) is undertaking a massive and innovative project to digitalize their comprehensive archive of palynology slides, thereby propelling the field of biostratigraphy into the digital age.…
Putting documents and presentations on a map isn’t anything new. To do this we can just look up our various place names (known as “toponyms”) and then when these names…
Until wireline logging came into swing, cutting core was the most important way to obtain reliable information about the targeted formation. With the advance of wireline logging though, the need…
In the continued discussion around the poor state of exploration drilling in the UK versus all those wells that are being drilled in Norwegian waters, it is so easy to…
It is corrosion resistant, has a long lifetime, no electronics are required downhole, and the “cable” is only a quarter of a millimeter thick. Fibre optic sensing technology has a…