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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 10

Issue 4

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on Latin America and Geophysics

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Update

14 Market Update

16 Licensing Opportunities

18 A Minute to Read

32 GEO ExPro Profile: Liu Juxiang – A Challenging Job

42 Recent Advances in Technology: Broadband IV – Mission Impossible!

60 GEO Education: Folds and Folding II

66 GEO Tourism: Petra – The Rose-Red Wonder

90 GEO Cities: Colorful Calgary

94 Exploration Update

96 Q&A

98 GEO Media

100 Hot Spot: Shale Gas in Brazil

102 Global Resource Management

Features

22 Cover Story: Petroleum, the New Economic Boost for Suriname

28 Industry Issues: A Shadow of its Former Self

36 Seismic Foldout: Pelotas Basin Oil Province Revealed

50 Geophysics: Magnetics and Fractures in Coal and Shale

54 Exploration: Honduras – Yet Another Final Frontier?

74 Seismic Foldout: The Santos Basin – Unlocking the Pre-Salt Potential

80 Reservoir Management: The Value of Monitoring Fractures

84 Exploration: South American Shales – A Regional Assessment

92 Technology: Virtual Boreholes

Articles

A Golden Age for Gas?

Will shale gas be a game changer for Brazil? At the 2012 Rio Oil and Gas Conference it was revealed that the ANP had commenced a survey of Brazil’s shale Read More

All About Geophysics

A new ambitious encyclopedia has covered no less than the entire field of geophysics Geophysics is the application of physics in geological sciences, and as such it is a vast Read More

Exploration Update

CANADA: Statoil success points to core exploration area Source: Statoil While much detail has yet to be revealed, Statoil is evaluating its newfield wildcat Harpoon O-85, located in the deepwater Read More

Technology for Virtual Boreholes

Can a technology devised from space exploration help discover hydrocarbon resources? In the 1980s, Dr. Colin Stove, a researcher at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, was working on a Read More

The Salt Mountain

Slanic Prahova, a small town in the centre of Romania, is famous as the home of the second biggest salt mine in Europe, the spectacular Salt Mountain, a natural reservation Read More

BGP – A Fast-Growing Company

BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation is one of the world’s leading geophysical service companies and undertakes more land-based geophysical surveys worldwide than any other company in the industry. We Read More

New Acreage in Frontier Provinces

In June, 29 companies were awarded frontier acreage in the Norwegian and Barents Seas offshore Norway. In June, 29 companies were awarded frontier acreage in the Norwegian and Barents Seas Read More

Conference That’s a Cut Above

The Bob F. Perkins Research Conference provides geoscientists with a unique, yearly format to present cutting-edge research papers and share ideas on selected subjects. For the past 33 years, the Read More

A Challenging Job!

A move from geophysical R&D into marketing, sparked partly by his proficiency in English, was an unusual career path for BGP geophysicist Liu Juxiang, but it has taken him all Read More

Frack Off! But Where To?

Only someone who has spent the last five years in the remote Amazon rainforest could be unaware of the influence of unconventional hydrocarbon resources on the economy of the United Read More

A UK Shale Gale Coming?

A new report estimates that the UK Bowland Shale resources could amount to over a quadrillion cubic feet of gas in place. Exploitation of onshore shale gas resources in North Read More

Elephants are Extinct

The future of the Norwegian Continental Shelf to a large degree depends on the discovery of small fields. The Geological Society of Norway has taken the initiative by organizing a Read More

A Shadow of its Former Self

Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill: six years of stop-go progress on oil industry reform has resulted in a bill that falls far short of its original transparency and revenue-generation goals With Read More

Egypt Déjà Vu

After weeks of grassroots campaigns, mass protests in Egypt erupted in July, culminating in the overthrow of President Morsi in what was effectively a military coup. Two and a half Read More