Issue 5

Vol. 14

This edition of GEO ExPro magazine focuses on Africa; Data and Analytics; and Protecting our Resources.

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Regional Update

8 Licensing Update

10 A Minute to Read

30 GEO Physics: Liberia – A Fresh Approach

38 GEO Profile: Cath Norman – New Technologies Lead to Amazing Career

50 GEO Tourism: Mauritius – and Beneath

74 GEO Media: Anomalies

76 Exploration Update

78 Q&A: Big Data in the O&G Industry 80 Global Resource Management

Features

12 Cover Story Exploration: Benin – The Low Cost, High Impact Frontier

16 Industry Issues: Digitally Transforming Data Management for Geoscience

20 Seismic Foldout: Côte d’Ivoire – Completing the Jigsaw

26 Industry Issues: When Being Green is Great for Business

32 Technology Explained: A Cleaner Future for Drilling

34 Country Profile: Unexplored Malawi

42 Seismic Foldout: Olympus Rising: North Carnarvon Basin Imaging

54 Exploration: Frontier Exploration in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea

56 History of Oil: A Brief History of Booms and Busts II

62 Recent Advances in Technology: An Introduction to Deep Learning I

66 Seismic Foldout: Exploration Opportunities in the Mediterranean

Articles

When “Being Green” is Great for Business

Does it really cost that much to be environmentally friendly in O&G? Every organisation has the opportunity to make the right choices in order to contribute to a more sustainable Read More

Cath Norman: New Technologies Lead to Amazing Career

Cath Norman’s belief in the application of new airborne technologies led her to become Managing Director of the Australian exploration company which went on to make the biggest offshore oil Read More

Riding the Switchback

A Brief History of Booms and Busts: Part II This article continues the history of oil price booms and bust, and Part I can be read here. In this second Read More

Liberia – A Fresh Approach

New thinking inspired by innovative modelling could open new plays in West Africa. Recent exploration in Liberia has not provided the commercial success we all want, with the most recent Read More

Benin – The Low Cost, High Impact Frontier

The overlooked potential of Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary plays within the onshore and shelfal Dahomey Embayment. The Gulf of Guinea is characterised by a number of Mesozoic sedimentary wedges, Read More

Frontier Exploration in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea

Several promising play types can be identified on new pre-stack depth migrated seismic. Offshore west Egypt is a frontier region that offers significant and diverse potential plays. There are proven Read More

A Cleaner Future for Drilling

Is it possible to drill with environmentally friendly fluids? Over the last 30 years, Oil Based Mud (OBM) and Synthetic Based Mud (SBM) have become the fluids of choice for Read More

Are There Any Hydrocarbons in Cyprus?

A Non-Commercial but Encouraging Discovery On 12 September 2017, Cypriot Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis announced Total’s Onesiphoros West 1 new field wildcat on Block 11 had discovered less than 500 Read More

Exploration Update – Guinea

Brought to you by GEO ExPro and Drillinginfo Hyperdynamics initially reported that its Fatala 1 new field wildcat on Block E3, 200 km offshore Guinea, had failed to discover hydrocarbons. Read More

Digitally Transforming Data Management for Geoscience

Technology and processes are changing rapidly, but data remains at the heart of everything we do. As the oil and gas industry recovers from the downturn, the surge of new Read More

Mauritius – and Beneath

After the American adventurer and author Mark Twain visited Mauritius in 1896 he quoted an islander as saying: “Mauritius was made first and then Heaven; and Heaven copied Mauritius.” Dotted Read More

100 Years of Amazing Women

A review of ‘Anomalies – Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917 – 2017’ by Robbie Rice Gries Competition GEO ExPro will be raffling a copy of this book on our Read More

Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry

Ahmed Hashmi, Global Head of Upstream Technology, BP, talks about the big data future. What do you understand by big data? Big data is the challenge that many industries, including Read More

Part I: An Introduction to Deep Learning

Once, artificial intelligence (AI) was science fiction. Today, it is part of our everyday lives. In the future, will computers begin to think for themselves? “We tend to overestimate the Read More

North West Africa Leads Exploration

Over the last two years companies exploring North West Africa have seen a high value of return. This regional update is brought to you by Rystad Energy. Conventionally, African exploration Read More

Just Having Fun

Rewarding careers in an exciting industry While reading Robbie Gries’ excellent book about pioneering female petroleum geologists in the AAPG, (GEO ExPro review), I was struck by the sense of Read More

Malawi Unexplored

Plenty of hydrocarbons have been found in the East African Rift system, but Malawi, lying at its southern end, is virtually unexplored. The hydrocarbon potential of the East African Rift Read More

Côte d’Ivoire: completing the jigsaw

Awaken your structural geologist! An understanding of tectonic phases will help regional exploration, facilitate modelling and de-risk leads. Offshore Côte d‘Ivoire is a part of the wider West African Transform Read More

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