Technology

Grain size distribution matters

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…

Answering the 3-billion fossil question

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.…

Can map tools find relevant documents?

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…

The competitive world of coring

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…

A dissolvable tool

Andrew Garioch from Well-SENSE talks us through the use of fibre-optic technology for well intervention work

Shaking up the Earth: The AI revolution in seismic interpretation

AI’s transformative role in seismic interpretation is not merely illuminating the subsurface; it’s fast-tracking one of the energy industry’s most business-critical phases. The interpretation of seismic data requires a comprehensive…

Your digital search assistant

The tool allows you to talk to a digital assistant about a selection of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s publicly available status reports, well histories and news articles. You can ask…