Issue 2

Vol. 11

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on the Americas, the Arctic and Frontier Exploration

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Update

14 Licensing Opportunities

16 Market Update

18 A Minute to Read

22 Cover story: GEO Tourism – Triassic Park

42 History of Oil: Memories of Iraqi Kurdistan

48 GEO Profile: Wallace Dow – Pioneer of Petroleum Geochemisty

52 Recent Advances in Technology: BroadSeis in Exploration

56 What I Do: The Seismic Interpreter

90 GEO Cities: Titusville – America’s First Oil Town 92 Exploration Update

94 GEO Media: Promised Land

96 Q&A: Frontier Exploration

98 Hot Spot: Colombia

100 Global Resource Management

Features

30 Exploration: New Insights on the Alaskan Chukchi Sea

36 Seismic Foldout: New Plays for Old – Gabon’s Salt Basin

58 Seismic Foldout: Beaufort West – A Complete Wilson Cycle

64 Technology Explained: Rethinking Regional Reconnaissance

70 Exploration: Shale Gas – A Commercially Viable Alternative?

74 GEO Chemistry: Think Molecular

80 Technical Foldout: Around the World in 59 Stages

86 Industry Issues: Water – Truths, Damn Truths and Statistics

Articles

Maximizing Recovery

In an environment of uncertainty regarding sovereignty of lucrative UKCS resources, oil companies operating in the mature North Sea Basin are being urged to do what the London and Scottish Read More

A Pioneer of Petroleum Geochemistry

Wallace Dow, who sadly passed away in June 2016, had a long and successful career pioneering the science of source rock geochemistry, playing a leading role in the advancement of Read More

The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone

This is a book that all those interested in the anti-fracking movement should find rewarding. While helpfully descriptive in many areas, it is riddled with assumptions and technical misconceptions; and it is very forgiving of Read More

Guinea-Bissau: New insights into the geology and deepwater exploration potential

Improved imaging and new insights A detailed reconnaissance study of Polarcus’s 3D multi-client data has revealed a complex shelf to basin sediment transport system feeding into classic deepwater West African Read More

Beaufort West: new insight into a Frontier Basin

Beaufort West: a complete Wilson Cycle New data reveals the deformation history of the Beaufort Basin through a complete Wilson cycle with implications for tectonic reconstructions and hydrocarbon potential. Strata Read More

Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond

PART VIII: BroadSeis in Exploration. Following on from Part VII we look at how this new technique can be effective in the search for oil as we consider its uses Read More

The Seismic Interpreter

Geophysicist Alice Little uses her geological knowledge and training as a seismic interpreter with Aker Solutions. Although ‘geophysicist’ is a broad term covering many specialist areas of research and work, what Read More

Responsible Resource Development

Gas development of the Haynesville Shale Play prompted a local state university, Louisiana’s officials, and natural gas operators to take a transdisciplinary approach to solve the area’s water use problems, Read More

Triassic Park – Arizona’s Petrified Forest.

Stunning are the vistas and large petrified logs that litter this high, desert landscape; possibly even more stunning is what we are learning about this important time in Earth’s complex Read More

Completing the Picture

Enhancing the understanding of the Barents Sea with full-tensor-gravity gradiometry. The Barents Sea represents one of the largest areas of continental shelf on the globe and is a structurally complex region, composed of Read More

Memories of Iraqi Kurdistan

In 2003, the fall of Saddam Hussein opened up semi-autonomous Kurdistan to foreign investment. It also revived the interest of oil companies in the region, which had been explored, but Read More

Think Molecular. It Translates into Pay!

Predicting GOR and bulk petroleum phase volumes ahead of drilling is a crucial element of exploration strategy. The organic matter in source rocks is able to tell the story; we Read More

New plays from old: Frontier exploration at the Western Edge of Gabon’s Salt Basin

Gabon, world-class frontier exploration targets Seriously underexplored, the potential for deepwater Gabon to provide a spectacular future for sub-salt discoveries is very promising. Although Gabon’s southern salt basin extends over an Read More

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective