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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 11

Issue 4

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on Asia and the FSU and Geophysics

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Market Update

8 Update

16 Licensing Opportunities

18 A Minute to Read

32 GEO Profile: Dr. Robert Sheriff – “Never Hold Back”

42 GEO Education: Fracture, Fracture Everywhere, Part 2

68 Recent Advances in Technology: IsoMetrix – Isometric Sampling

78 What I Do: The Chief Explorer

90 History of Oil: The PESGB Celebrates Its 50th Birthday

98 GEO Cities: Khanty Mansiysk – Oil, Sport and Woolly Rhinos

100 Exploration Update

102 GEO Media: The Secret World of Oil

104 Q&A: Delighting in Geophysics

106 Hot Spot: Offshore Canning Basin, Australia

108 Global Resource Management

Features

22 Cover Story: GEO Tourism: Lakagigar – Catastrophe and Climate Change

28 Technology: Technology Driving Unconventional Exploration

36 Seismic Foldout: Hoop Basin, Barents Sea

48 Exploration: Mongolia – Potential in an Emerging Economy

54 Technology: 3D Seismic Data and Geohazard Analysis

58 Seismic Foldout: Frontier Exploration in the Middle Caspian Basin

64 Technology: Three Disappointments in the Barents Sea

72 Geophysics: Reservoir Rocks Behaving Differently

80 Seismic Foldout: Offshore Greece – Imaging the Next Hydrocarbon Province

86 Exploration: Unveiling Oil Targets in Colombian Amazonia

94 Industry Issues: The Fracking Debate in Europe

Articles

Delighting in Geophysics

Dr. Thomas A. Smith founded Seismic Micro-Technology (SMT) in 1984 and led the development of the widely adopted Kingdom Suite software suite for seismic interpretation. He went on to found Read More

New Oil Play Excites Australia

Apache announced on 18 August that its shallow water Phoenix South-1 exploration well in permit WA-435-P, 180 km north of Port Hedland, had intersected at least four discrete oil columns Read More

Ideas and Innovation

“We usually find oil in a new place with old ideas. Sometimes, we find oil in an old place with a new idea, but we seldom find much oil in an Read More

China Seeks More Gas

With its vast shale gas resources proving harder to access than anticipated, China is looking to Russian gas to satisfy its rising demand. China is believed to hold the world’s largest Read More

Libya’s Missing Barrels

The Brent oil price continues to slide as Libyan oil is expected to gradually return to the market after two key export terminals, which had been blocked for almost a year by Read More

Oil is Still in the Lead

Oil is still our largest energy provider. And while fossil fuels predominate, renewables have a long way to go before they can make a considerable impact. Total energy consumption increased Read More

Gabon: Some Hope for Gas

Eni has made a significant gas and condensate discovery with an exploration well testing the Nyonie Deep prospect in Block D4, approximately 13 km from the coast and 48 km from Libreville, the capital of Read More

The Secret World of Oil

Ken Silverstein Verso Books Dodgy practice in the oil industry may appear to be a ‘yawn, yawn’ subject – don’t we all know that companies lobby and pay into campaign funds? And Read More

Tanzania: Third LNG Train Likely?

The partnership of BG (operator) and Ophir have confirmed an important new gas discovery in deepwater Block 1, Tanzania. Drilled using the ‘Deepsea Metro 1’ drillship, the Taachui 1ST well, close to the Read More

Not for the Faint-Hearted

The Frackers (2013) Author: Gregory Zuckerman Portfolio/Penguin This is the book of our time, the story of the US shale energy revolution, told through the lives of the ‘part gamblers, part salesmen, part geologists’ who were Read More

Imaging the next hydrocarbon province

Unlocking offshore Greece: New regional GeoStreamer dataset provides key answers In preparation for the 2014 licensing round, PGS, on behalf of YPEKA, acquired 12,500 km of 2D seismic data offshore Read More

Whale Hunters Seek Elephants

Atlantic Petroleum is a small independent E&P company with big ambitions. With a strong concentration on technical expertise and some very creative geoscientists, it is looking at some exciting exploration Read More

The Fracking Debate in Europe

AAPG Distinguished Lecturer Terry Engelder assesses the history behind European bans on fracking. During a recent trip to Europe as part of my AAPG Distinguished Lecture Tour, my most popular Read More

Never Hold Back

Dr. Robert E. Sheriff learned early in his career “to never withhold information or ideas for later use,” leaving a lasting legacy to his family, the geophysics community, and our Read More

The Chief Explorer

Geologist Dr. Jeroen Peters describes his role as Shell’s Chief Explorer and reflects on his career. Having been born below sea level in the muddy western part of The Netherlands, I developed Read More

Aberdeen: The Granite City

An oil boom city, Aberdeen’s growth since the 1970s into one of the main global hubs of the oil industry has shaped and defined the modern city.

Falling Brent.

Is the oil super-cycle finally on its downward turn? It seems counter-intuitive but are predictions of Brent at $85 credible? And what are the implications for the industry? GUEST EDITOR Read More

Arctic Availability

Is the rapidly melting Arctic ice unlocking opportunities for hydrocarbon exploration? Conflict or Cooperation? The Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, a development that some believe will be a Read More