Petroleum exploration and production benefit from recent advances in the geoscience disciplines and quantum leaps in technology. Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir engineers, all preoccupied with trying to understand the subsurface with a common goal to find and produce more oil and gas, are therefore faced with an overwhelming flow of knowledge and data.
It is also true that the geoscientists – as a result of more data and innovative technology – have changed their working processes. Professionsals from different disciplines work more and more often as a team and make decisions on a common platform in “caves”, onshore operations centers and via remote networks.
As a consequence, there is an increasing need for “educational reading”, making it easier for the professionals to get an understanding of how our business is conducted. Similarly, the petroiuem industry is increasingly moving international as more countries are getting involved. This will also give a need for “educational reading” and justifies the creation of a new interdisciplinary magazine which covers new advancements and concepts within geoscience and technology related to exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons.
With this background, GeoPublishing Ltd is launching a new, international magazine for members of the “asset teams” within the petroleum industry. The magazine is written for the non-experts who want to stay informed about current developments.
The name of the magazine – GEO ExPro – reflects who we want to target: Geoscientists, petroleum engineers and managers involved in exploration and production from the very first idea of where to find oil to the very last idea on how to deal with tail end production. We will thus cover the entire value chain that professionals dealing with the subsurface natural resources are concerned with, – even economics will be dealt with.
Competitors? Definitely! Albeit, GEO ExPro is designed to be a different product presenting news, articles and features in a different way than magazines that are familiar to you. Our subtitle – Geoscience and Technology Explained – gives an idea about this.
This first edition illustrates this concept very well. We have a story covering the geology of the sedimentary basins offshore West Greenland, there are two stories explaining innovative technology that has the potential of making exploartion and exploitation of hydrocarbons much more efficient, we present two articles that focus on seismic acquisition to improve data resolution and interpretability, each method going their own way, but with a common goal, and we get to know one of the oldtimers in our industry.
GEO ExPro is launched at the EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Paris. It should be no surprise, therfore, that we use this excellent opportunity to investigate the link between petroleum and wine, a link that has its roots in the oily sedimentary rocks of the Paris Basin. For those of you who appreciate such an approach, we can promise that we will revert to subjects relevant for “geotourism”.
