Greater Castberg: Seismic challenges in the High North
“We are hoping for many discoveries in the Greater Castberg area in the years to come”, said Hossein Mehdi Zadeh, Principal Geophysicist at Equinor during the NCS Exploration – Recent…
Technology
Vintage Maps Reborn
Using 3D animation software and surface models for new hillshade mapping techniques to produce hyper-realistic 3D-like maps. A new trend of map-making has recently evolved and changed the way we…
90 per cent success rate
“For the so-called Class A wells, we have had an approximately 90 per cent success rate on our predictions”, said Øyvind Sylta, Managing Director at Migris during the NCS Exploration…
The winner is: A cutting-edge cutting project
Norway is probably the first country in the world where new value is added to data not many people think about very often: cuttings. Under the umbrella of the Released…
Technology competition: Three finalists – one winner
The prize is awarded each year at the NCS Exploration Conference, and every other year – in connection with the theme of the conference being Recent Advances in Exploration Technology…
Successful exploration through integrating 4D seismic data
Operator Equinor, together with partners Vår Energi (25%), Idemitsu Petroleum (15%) and Neptune Energy (15%), has added a unique discovery to the list of exploration successes in the greater Fram…
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XI – How Earth’s IR Photons are Transferred in the Atmosphere in the Presence of CO₂
Skydive with us into the quantum world and find out how Earth’s IR radiation is transferred in a plane-parallel troposphere in the presence of CO₂ molecules. At quite uncertain times…
The Supercontinent Cycle: Patterns and Impacts
Plate tectonics comprises three inter-linked mega-cycles: the Rock cycle, the Wilson cycle, and the supercontinent cycle, which we explore in more detail here. The geography of continents and oceans has…
4 seismic surveys in one
The subsurface of the North Cape Basin in the Barents Sea is full of salt that has formed diapirs in places, even creating overhangs. “Therefore, significant local velocity differences occur,”…
The importance of structured data
Barely 5% of available seismic data is utilized and geoscientists and engineers reportedly spend more than 50% of their time searching and assembling data.
Do I trust what is in the cloud or what is in my geomodel?
A wrap-up of last week’s DIGEX2021 Conference.
How Shell is redesigning the work of explorationists
Shell’s new digital venture is experimenting with new ways for explorers to work remotely and crowd-sourcing expertise.