Issue 3

Vol. 10

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on the East Mediterranean and Unconventional Resources and Technologies

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Update

14 Market Update

16 Licensing Opportunities

18 A Minute to Read

42 Geo Profile: The Canadian Driller – A Life in Oil

48 Recent Advances in Technology: Ocean Waves and Seismic Data

68 GEO Tourism: Don’t Wake up Mungibeddu!

92 GEO Education: Folds and Folding

98 GEO Cities: Stavanger – Canned Herring to Oil Barrels

100 Exploration Update

102 GEO Media: Fifteen Years of Hugo Chavez

104 Q&A

106 Hot Spot

108 Global Resource Management

Features

22 Cover story: Insights From Space

28 Exploration: Alaska North Slope – Source Rocks Hold Promise

32 Unconventional Resources: Promises, Challenges and Global Implications

36 Seismic Foldout: Will Lebanon Be the Next Oil Province?

54 Technology: Hearing With Light!

58 Seismic Foldout: The UK West Central Graben

64 Industry Issues: The Levantine Basin – Prospects and Pitfalls

72 Reservoir Management: A Workflow for Success in Shales

80 Seismic Foldout: Norwegian Continental Shelf – A Stitch in Time!

86 Reservoir Analogues: The Present is the Key to the Past

Articles

The Present is the Key to the Past

The Principle of Uniformitarianism gives confidence in selecting well sites through looking at Holocene facies analogues. The Principle of Uniformitarianism states that the causes and rates of geologic processes that Read More

The Transparent Imperative

Why oil and gas companies must master social media. The oil and gas industry is seen by and large with great scepticism by the American and European public, and are Read More

Hearing With Light!

Silixa’s intelligent Distributed Acoustic Sensor™ uses fibre optics to push the boundaries of seismic applications, as demonstrated through studies undertaken in Greece and the US. Most people are familiar with Read More

The Levantine Basin: Prospects and Pitfalls

Discoveries of gas in the Eastern Mediterranean have surprised the world. Will they help build bridges of peace or simply exacerbate tensions in this conflict-prone area? Less than ten years Read More

Shale Gas: Promises, Challenges and Global Implications

As is well known, shale gas and other unconventional resources have revolutionised the hydrocarbon industry in the US, and the country is expected to become a net exporter of gas Read More

The Canadian Driller: A Life in Oil

Bert Blanche started his long career in the oil industry as a roughneck in Texas in 1930. His son Bruce, who became a geologist in the oil industry, tells us Read More

Alaska North Slope: Source Rocks Hold Promise

The US Geological Survey’s recently completed assessment of three North Slope shale plays indicates a potential of two billion barrels of recoverable oil and eighty trillion feet of gas. In Read More

Oil Prices Under Pressure

They should rise with accelerated growth in the second half of the year Oil prices came under heavy pressure in the first weeks of April. Weaker-than-expected macroeconomic data from Read More

South Sudan: “The Oil is Now Flowing”

South Sudan is to resume oil production – a positive move for the new country, but uncertainty remains. After a 15-month stalemate, South Sudan has announced it is to resume Read More

Insights from Space!

With recent offshore gas discoveries reviving interest in the Eastern Mediterranean region, a variety of methodologies can be used to assess potential, including using data from satellites orbiting the earth. Read More

Ready to Explore the Offshore Arctic?

To unlock the vast, technically recoverable oil and gas resources that are attracting international oil companies to the Arctic will take Herculean effort. For example, Shell has spent billions of Read More

Don’t Wake Up Mungibeddu!

Where would you go if you wanted to find pristine rock which has never seen the light of the sun before? And if you wanted a fertile soil, ideal for Read More

A stitch in time!

A cross section of Norway: putting the pieces together By assembling and merging a fragmented dataset of 3D seismic, it is possible to release the hydrocarbon potential of the Norwegian Read More

Publish What you Pay

Have we got that much to hide? The petroleum industry works in countries throughout the world, including those with political and economic instability and low levels of development. This can Read More

The UK West Central Graben: A broadband seismic perspective

To see the full seismic lines please download our PDF for the print issue available through this link: GEO ExPro Vol. 10 No. 3 New insights with broadband data New seismic Read More

Something Worth Arguing About

The newly launched European Shale Gas Argument Map aims to provide information both for and against the extraction of shale gas. Commissioned by TNO, a Dutch independent research company who Read More

A Workflow for Success in Shales

Following a rock properties-based workflow for shale plays makes it possible to gather intelligence which not only defines where to drill and how to frac, but also better predicts the Read More

Will Lebanon be the next oil province?

MegaSurvey Key to Understanding Prospectivity The Ministry of Energy and Water of the Republic of Lebanon opened their first bid round on 2 May 2013 with a closing date of Read More

Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond – Part III: The Interaction Between Ocean Waves And Recorded Seismic Data

Broadband seismic technology is designed to reduce the influence of the ocean waves on seismic data. To understand and appreciate this, we need an understanding of the interaction between the Read More

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective