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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 10

Issue 2

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on Australia and North America

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Update

14 Market Update

16 Licensing Opportunities

18 A Minute to Read

42 GEO ExPro Profile: Webster Mohriak – Mr Conjugate Margin

68 History of Oil: Exploration in Yemen

80 GEO Tourism: Scenic Geology of the Icefields Parkway

88 Recent Advances in Technology: Exorcizing Ghosts

92 GEO Cities: Port Moresby

94 Exploration Update

96 GEO Media: A Geology of Australia

98 Q&A 100 Hot Spot

102 Global Resource Management

Features

22 Cover Story: Unleashing the Mad Dog

28 Exploration: Beneath the Labrador Sea

32 Exploration: Ireland’s Porcupine Basin

36 Seismic Foldout: Zeus and Zeebries, Australia’s Carnarvon Basin

46 Reservoir Management: A Simple Guide to Seismic Inversion

52 Technology Explained: From Core to Pore

56 Exploration: New Deepwater Frontiers an Ocean Apart

64 Geophysics: 60 Years of Innovation

74 Seismic Foldout: Recorded Broadband Seismic

Articles

Shaping a Nation: A Geology of Australia

Shaping a Nation: A Geology of Australia. Geoscience Australia, 2012, Richard Blewitt, Chief Editor, 571 pages Australia’s defining moment came 34 million years ago when the continent rifted from Gondwana. Read More

New Deepwater Frontiers an Ocean Apart

Large oil finds in the African Equatorial Margin have led to recent oil discoveries along the South American Equatorial Margin. Similar geologic and geochemical characteristics suggest analogous petroleum systems with Read More

Mr. Conjugate Margin

Early in his career, geologist Dr. Webster Ueipass Mohriak analysed ‘the whole crust’ along Brazil’s continental margin to become one of the world’s leading experts on conjugate margins. Webster was Read More

Zeus and Zeebries

Zeus and Zeebries: Significant exploration insights High-quality 3D data could provide new exploration opportunities in this highly prospective part of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, where underexplored areas exist within close Read More

Iceland Exploration Revived

Recent license awards suggest that active exploration may soon resume in Iceland’s freezing waters Iceland is currently not producing oil or gas. However, the very first oil and gas offshore Read More

Demand and Salaries Rising

An Oil and Gas Global Salary Guide sheds insights on the employment situation With the geosciences and subsurface industry constantly growing with further exploration and development worldwide, the demand for Read More

Beneath the Labrador Sea

A new seismic dataset helps clarify the deepwater hydrocarbon potential offshore Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada First oil was produced on the Grand Banks in 1997 from the Hibernia Field Read More

South Australia’s Unconventional Resource

A newly published guide outlines the opportunities and risks involved in exploiting unconventional reserves in South Australia. Once regarded as something that would happen in the future, recent exploration results Read More

Geology is Cool!

What difference will the death of President Chavez make to the oil industry? Oil prices did not react sharply to the news that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez passed away in Read More

Port Moresby: Colorful but Troubled

Despite having a dangerous reputation, Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, is expanding fast, principally as a result of a major LNG project. Repeatedly finding itself in the Read More

From Core to Pore

Advanced technology can now be taken into remote field environments to make lithology description much more detailed and accurate than was possible before From the early days of hydrocarbon exploration, Read More

A World of Plenty

Shale gas resources are potentially huge, but so far only the US that has taken advantage of this low permeability reservoir rock. Shale gas has rejuvenated the natural gas industry Read More

Oil Exploration in Yemen

Yemen is a land of physical contrasts, bounded by mountains, desert and sea. It includes the Socotra archipelago and various islands in the Red Sea. At the heart of the Read More

60 Years of Innovation

Emerging through privatization of state entities, Romanian company Prospectiuni has developed into the leading geophysical and geological service company in south-east Europe, and now operates in the Middle East and Read More

Exploration Update

The world’s most significant discoveries brought to you by IHS and GEO ExPro LIBYA: First Success for Sonatrach Source: IHS Sonatrach’s first well on what is highly prospective acreage has Read More