This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on Frontier Exploration and the Gulf of Mexico; Downhole Tools; and Increasing Efficiency in E&P.

Columns
5 Editorial
6 Regional Update
10 A Minute to Read
20 Exploration: Seismic Detection of Source Rocks
34 Technology Explained: The Custom Data Solution
40 Hot Spot: Developments in Middle East Exploration
42 Exploration: Confronting the Elephant
60 Recent Advances in Technology: Finite Difference Modelling III
64 GEO Media: Energy and Climate Change
66 Exploration Update
68 Q&A: Allen Gilmer – What Does the Future Hold?
70 Global Resource Management
Features
14 Cover Story GEO Tourism: Carbonate Classroom
18 GEO Profile: Bill Armstrong – Chasing Unicorns
24 Reservoir Management: Rediscover Your Reservoir
28 Seismic Foldout: Barents Sea
36 Exploration: A Potentially World Class Undrilled Basin
46 GEO Chemistry: Geochemistry Moves to the Wellsite
50 Seismic Foldout: A Fresh Look at Cuba and Madagascar
56 Exploration: Gulf of Mexico Conjugate Margins Revealed