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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 12

Issue 1

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on the Arctic and Reservoir Management.

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Columns

5 Editorial

8 Update

14 Licensing Opportunities

16 A Minute to Read

34 What I Do: The Pore Pressure Specialist

50 GEO Tourism: The Patagonian Diamond

60 History of Oil: River of Oil – Early Oil Exploration in Iraq

64 Recent Advances in Technology: Gas Hydrates in the Arctic

70 GEO Profile: Gil Mull – Prudhoe Bay and Beyond

84 GEO Cities: Erbil

86 Exploration Update

88 GEO Media

90 Q & A: Let’s Talk about Shale

92 Hot Spot: The Kara Sea

94 Global Resource Management

Features

20 Cover Story: Exploration: Political Geology in the Arctic

26 Reservoir Management: Improving Reservoir Characterisation

30 Exploration: Why Norway?

36 Seismic Foldout: De-risking the Barents Sea

42 Technology Explained: New Perspectives on the Barents Sea

46 Exploration: South East Asia – Deepwater Activity

56 Industry Issues: Turkey – A Key Transit State in Crisis

74 Seismic Foldout: The Hoop Area, Barents Sea

80 Exploration: Darwinian Evolution in the Falklands

Articles

Western Arctic Russia – The Kara Sea

In 2012, ExxonMobil and the Russian state oil company, Rosneft, signed a partnership deal that would give ExxonMobil a stake in developing Russia’s vast energy reserves in the Arctic and Black Sea. Universiteskaya-1 Read More

De-risking the Barents Sea

Increasing the chance of success Used together, IP data and 2D broadband seismic can be very useful de-risking tools to help assess the Geological Chance of Success.  In the Hoop area Read More

The pore pressure expert

Pore pressure models play a crucial role in the E&P workflow, from the early exploration phase to the final stage of field production. Pore pressure models and predictions are important Read More

Barents Sea Atlas Goes Digital

Atlas of the Geological History of the Barents Sea Editors : Morten Smelror, Oleg V. Petrov, Geir Birger Larssen and Stephanie C. Werner. Geological Survey of Norway, 2009. Available online:http://issuu.com/ngu_/docs/atlas_-_geological_history_of_the_b?e=3609664/9026048 Read More

Gas Hydrates – Part VI

Hydrates in the Arctic (I) ‘You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about Read More

South Falkland Basin: Darwinian Evolution

The South Falkland Basin has remained below the industry radar. Pioneering exploration efforts are slowly revealing the potential of this new frontier. Filter Collections     EXPLORATION SOUTH AMERICA South Falkland Basin: Read More

Improving Reservoir Characterisation

Reservoir characterisation can be improved through the integrated analysis of CSEM, seismic and well log data. Determining reservoir geometry and properties from the surface is a challenging but important task. Read More

Oil Exploration in the Canadian Beaufort

A frontier environment with conventional resources, where exploration risk is low, execution risk is manageable and the plays are world-class. The Arctic represents both a challenge and an opportunity for Read More

Stories From Deep Time

How one man’s passion for the fossils of ‘an uninteresting rock’ has resulted in a unique collection. Steve Etches is a man with a passion – and a very crowded Read More

Political Geology in the Arctic

Geology has been used to argue for the rearrangement of maritime borders of states, often to the prejudice of geology as a science. This is especially true in the Arctic, Read More

New Perspectives on the Barents Sea

The recent opening of the south-east Barents Sea to oil and gas exploration has provided an opportunity to deploy the latest technologies such as full tensor gravity gradiometry to improve Read More

Exploiting the Arctic

As interest in this resource rich region intensifies, we ask the question – Who owns this massive bounty? The Arctic is the world’s smallest ocean, and possibly the most resource-rich Read More

Let’s Talk About Shale

Ken Cronin is CEO of UKOOG, which represents the onshore oil and gas industry in the UK, and is therefore heavily involved in ongoing discussions about unconventional exploration in the Read More