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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 11

Issue 3

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on Europe, and Unconventional Resources and Technologies

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Market Update

8 Update

16 Licensing Opportunities

18 A Minute to Read

42 Recent Advances in Technology: BroadSeis in Production

56 What I Do: The Oil Industry Volunteer

64 GEO Tourism: Rinjani, The ‘Big’ Volcano

70 History of Oil: ‘What Oilfields?’ Onshore Oil in the UK

76 GEO Profile: Lee Krystinik – Fun, Cooperation and Risk-Taking

86 GEO Education: Fracture, Fracture Everywhere

98 GEO Cities: Takoradi – Ghana’s Oil City

100 Exploration Update

102 Geomedia: The Frackers

104 Q&A: New Doctoral Training Initiative

106 Hot Spot: Papua New Guinea

108 Global Resource Management

Features

22 GEO ExPro Turns Ten

24 Country Profile: Ukraine’s Gas-Fuelled Crisis

32 Technology Explained: Polarising Pyrite

36 Seismic Foldout: A Nigerian Renaissance

46 Exploration: Defining Shale Potential in The Netherlands

50 Industry Issues: Responsible Resource Development

58 Seismic Foldout: Namibia – Frontier Exploration in West Africa

80 Seismic Foldout: Exploring the Mid North Sea High

92 Technology Explained: Completing the Picture

Articles

A Nigerian Renaissance

Renewed interest in Africa’s largest oil producer. The Niger Delta is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world and huge discoveries in the late 1990s and early Read More

Why Share Data?

Malcolm Fleming is CEO of Common Data Access Ltd (CDA), which was established with the aim of sharing the costs and benefits associated with managing subsurface UK E&P data through Read More

Exploring the Mid North Sea high

Hunting the carboniferous play New regional broadband 3D seismic data reveals more information about the geology of this poorly understood region. CGG recently undertook the acquisition of a large 3D Read More

Check Your Knowledge

By 2040, the world’s population will increase by about two billion. How much energy will we need to power this growth? Did you know that China is the world’s leading Read More

PNG Lands on the Petroleum Map

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is set to join the exclusive club of LNG exporting nations before mid-year when first cargoes ship from its US $19 billion LNG project. The ExxonMobil-operated facility was completed ahead of schedule Read More

The Oil Industry Volunteer

Csilla Tunde Fabian and Niamh Mary Monaghan are committee members of the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society The goal of the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society (AFES), the local branch of the Society Read More

Congo: Significant Westward Extension

Eni’s Nene Marine 3 exploration well in the offshore Marine XII Block encountered a significant wet gas and light oil accumulation in the pre-salt clastic sequence, thereby outlining a significant extension to Read More

Russia: Major Reserves Boost

Appraisal drilling by Gazprom at its Kirinskoye Yuzhnoye field in the Okhotsk Sea off Sakhalin Island has resulted not only in the addition of gas reserves, but also in the discovery of a big oil Read More

Côte d’Ivoire: Key Deepwater Find

Although untested, the Total-operated Saphir-1XB in Block CI-514 is described as an important discovery in a frontier part of deepwater offshore Côte d’Ivoire, as it has demonstrated a working petroleum system. Located in a water depth Read More

Looking Back to Predict the Future

Conventional exploration continues to be very successful, but 2014 is a make or break year for frontier deepwater exploration. One can learn a lot from looking at even the recent past. Read More

Bakken’s Billion Barrel Milestone

The Bakken shale means that North Dakota is now the second largest producing state in the US. Late in 2013 the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated crude oil production Read More

Internal OPEC Rivalry Ahead?

With the world’s fifth-largest petroleum reserves, Iraq has – at least on paper – considerable potential for boosting production. If its goals are reached, it will bring the country’s production to Read More

New Doctoral Training Initiative

An innovative collaboration between universities, research institutions, government funding bodies and the E&P industry promises to change the face of doctoral petroleum geoscience training in the UK. Keith Gerdes, Chair Read More

The Bigger Picture

GEO ExPro Magazine is 10 years old. And what better way to celebrate than with an edition full of – well, all the usual variety of articles you enjoy, designed to entertain, Read More

Fun, Cooperation and Risk-Taking.

Lee Krystinik, who recently retired as President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, tells us why he thinks the organisation is a vital resource for the industry – and Read More

A Disturbing World

We live in troubling times. After the hope of the 2010 ‘Arab Spring’ in Tunisia, we have witnessed the toppling of Ghaddafi in Libya, the overthrow of two governments in Read More

Rinjani: The ‘Big’ Volcano

Harry Matchette-Downes describes a trek to the summit of the volcano Rinjani, on Lombok, Indonesia, and down to the shores of its crater lake. The trek begins near the village Read More

Polarising Pyrite

Norwegian company ORG Geophysical aims to find previously hidden hydrocarbon reservoirs by detecting shallow pyrite bodies using Induced Polarisation. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, competition for exploration targets is Read More

Takoradi: Ghana’s Oil City.

Oil has been the catalyst for investment, reviving Takoradi’s fortunes as an export hub for Ghana’s many resources – but benefits to the local economy remain elusive. For the casual Read More

Fracture, Fracture Everywhere – Part I

Rock fractures are ubiquitous because rocks in the Earth’s upper crustal levels are brittle. However, the fractures show considerable variations due to their origin, geometry and rock properties. Given the Read More

10th Anniversary Wrap Up

Now that the bunting has been put away and memories of the celebrations are consigned to the annals of folklore we bring you a quick review of prize-winners and stylish-dinners. Read More

Defining Shale Potential in The Netherlands.

A recent study assesses unconventional plays and bypassed conventional pay in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a long-established petroleum economy, having successfully produced oil and gas both onshore and offshore for over sixty Read More

Ukraine’s Gas-Fuelled Crisis

Ukraine stands on the brink of civil war and bankruptcy, and energy has been a key factor. Is diversification of supply possible? Is it even a partial solution? The questions Read More