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A working petroleum system on purely oceanic crust

*Christian Niño currently works at Petronas and Martin Zubiri works at Pan American Energy. For a long time, exploring for hydrocarbons in the deep waters of the Gulf of Guinea,…

BP shores up gas reserves West Papua, Indonesia

BP reportedly made a significant new offshore gas discovery in the large West Papua Berau PSC, Indonesia, with the Kepe-Kepe-1 sidetrack, according to oil and gas regulator SKK Migas. The…

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The future has arrived

Figure 1: Location of the 3D seismic datasets acquired between 2022 and 2024 in the Orange and Pelotas Basins. Contourites: When everything going sideways saves the day Though complex in…

Discover more in Møre, Norway

Figure 2 (left): Overview map of the NVG survey (blue), NVG24 (green) and sparse OBN (black) coverage near the Norwegian coast. Figure 3 (right): Time-structure map of the top acoustic…

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Geothermal

An exciting drilling campaign in exciting geology

Did EBN set a trend? That’s to be seen, but the four-well geothermal drilling campaign the Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency recently em­barked on to prove the potential of an equal number…

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Technology

Seismic data on the workbench

“My goal is to equip explorationists with a toolbox containing all relevant algorithms to efficiently create optimal seismic volumes for interpretation and stratigraphical analysis,” says Anders, who hails from Sweden…

The bit boy has gone

The Canadian oil sector has changed dramatically in a matter of 20 years. Back in the early 2000’s, vertical drilling was very much common good, but these days, you would…

Geology

Geomodelling for CCS, a bridge too far?

Traditionally, geomodels are built in a simplistic fashion, taking into account the inherent degree of uncertainty in the input data. Attempting to accurately depict an unseen geological object, often multiple…

Geophysics

Did you know that rocks have memory?

The seismic signature of a sedimentary rock is strongly influenced by the geological history of the rock, e.g., the depositional environment, whether it has experienced tectonic burial and uplift, etc.…

Seeing the whole picture

During the pandemic, Lyme Bay Consulting took the opportunity to download all the Operator-released 3D seismic data in the UKCS to produce a series of Post-Stack Merged Seismic Volumes covering…

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A tent and a rig

Looking out of the plane window when approaching Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s oil capital, the darkness of the desert is interrupted by star-shaped lights in places. I wondered what they were…

A can-do mentality required

“It’s funny, says Iain Brown, “I had been an avid reader of the magazine for years when I was asked to take over the editor position from Jane Whaley, but…

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“Playtime is over”

“A lovely little department dedicat­ed to geothermal energy. That’s what I found when I started at the Interna­tional Geothermal Association (IGA) in 2017,” says Marit Brommer, who had left a…

On drift

When we meet on Teams on a morn­ing in March, F. Javier Hernández- Molina is calling in from his office in Granada, Spain, where he works at the Andalusian Earth…

From scratch

“No data, no problems,” laughs Tan­guy Lomme from Epslog when he reminisces on his years at Shell when he worked as a reservoir engineer. As soon as he joined founder…

Turning adversity into opportunity

“I grew up in the state of Perak, north of Kuala Lumpur, in the town of Batu Gajah. Being the oldest of eight chil­dren, I felt the responsibility to take…

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Paleogeography and business

“The production of paleogeographic maps is an economically useful exercise for consultancy companies such as ours”, says Andy Horbury from Cambridge Carbonates. His company has been involved in constructing, editing,…

Advances in survey design

The traditional model of survey design uses a survey design tool to create geometry which is passed to a different program – often Excel – to estimate cost. Iterating to…

Developments in seismic data processing techniques

Dedicated software programs employ several techniques, including non-linear traveltime tomography, land-specific FWI, bending ray Kirchhoff migration, anisotropic depth imaging, and horizon-consistent velocity modeling, to achieve obtaining accurate earth models.  The…

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