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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 11

Issue 1

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on the Middle East and Petrophysics

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Columns

6 Update

14 Market Update

16 Licensing Opportunities

18 A Minute to Read

50 Recent Advances in Technology: A Change of Thinking

56 GEO Profile: Eddy Belle – Promoting the Seychelles

84 GEO Tourism: Sea of Sand – Dunes of the Namib

90 What I Do: The Petrophysicist NEW COLUMN

92 GEO Cities: Muscat – Mountains and the Sea

94 Exploration Update

96 GEO Media: Novel Digital Platforms

98 Q&A

100 Hot Spot: Mexico

102 Global Resource Management

Features

22 Cover story: Petroleum Systems in Jordan

30 Geoscience Explained: Petrophysics – Looking Down the Wellbore

36 Seismic Foldout: West of Shetland – A New Regional Dataset

42 Exploration: How Much Oil in the Middle East?

60 Technology Explained: Petrophysics in High Angle and Horizontal Wells

64 Industry Issues: Premature Predictions for LNG?

70 Technology Explained: Real-Time Data = Proactive Field Decisions

74 Seismic foldout: Early Carboniferous Battleground on the UKCS

80 Geology: The Predictive Power of Palynology

Articles

UKCS 28th Round

The UK 28th Licensing Round is anticipated to open in February 2014, the seventh since the Fallow and Promote initiatives were introduced in 2003 to encourage exploration growth. The UK Read More

Real-Time Data = Proactive Field Decisions

Recent developments in permanent downhole monitoring provide accurate and stable measurements even in extreme high pressure/high temperature reservoir conditions. The integration of multiple measurements as they happen allows operators to Read More

Mountains and the Sea: Muscat

“Muscat is a port the like of which cannot be found in the whole world.” – Arab navigator Ahmed bin Majid al-Najdi, 1490 Muscat is indeed a unique city, surrounded Read More

Transferring Skills Mitigates Risk

Unlocking the potential of skills transfer to local communities is vital for mitigating risk in Africa. The discovery of huge hydrocarbon reserves will potentially transform East Africa. International energy companies are set to Read More

How Equal is Equal?

More women are taking advantage of opportunities in the oil and gas industry. The results of a recent online ‘Global Diversity and Inclusion’ survey of over 3,000 oil and gas professionals Read More

Tales of the unexpected

The Brent oil price is expected to be marginally lower, at US$106/barrel in 2015, down from US$108/barrel in 2013. Non-OPEC oil production will increase more than growth in demand until Read More

Petroleum systems in Jordan

Jordan is located within the producing sedimentary basin in the North-West Arabian Plate. Exploration was initiated in the country in 1947 by the Iraqi Petroleum Company, yet to date only Read More

The Predictive Power of Palynology.

Microfossils are key to understanding the evolution of life on earth. Demand in the petroleum industry for palynologists – experts in the study of these minute fossilised organisms – is Read More

The Petrophysicist

This new column takes a look at the different geoscience careers available in the oil industry and shows exactly what each one entails. In this inaugural article Jackie Mullinor describes Read More

Bad science for good reasons?

In his book, ‘Bad Science’ (Fourth Estate, London), Ben Goldacre expertly attempts to explain ‘why clever people believe stupid things’. When offered up so succinctly the pitfalls to bad decision Read More

Premature Predictions for LNG?

For an industry that is used to long-term contracts and guaranteed markets, changes in the gas market are proving unsettling. Will predictions of a future glut in liquefied natural gas Read More

Sand of Sea Dunes of Namib

Snuggled in against the south-western coast of Africa lies the Namib Desert, one of the driest and oldest deserts on Earth – but life abounds in this seemingly desolate environment. Read More