Issue 3

This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on the Circum-Mediterranean; Russia and the FSU; Unconventional Resources; and Seismic Sources

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Regional Update

8 Licensing Update

10 A Minute to Read

26 Technology Explained: The Death of Wiggle Picking

48 Recent Advances in Technology: From Arrhenius to CO2 Storage – Part II

60 Industry Issues: A Quantum Leap in Water Recycling

70 Reservoir Management: Olympus Challenge

76 Exploration: The Yamal Peninsula

72 Hot Spot: The Future of Unconventionals in Latin America

80 Exploration Update

82 Q&A: Diversity is a Key to Success

84 FlowBack: The Generation Z Factor

Features

14 Exploration: Algeria – A New Tectonic Framework

20 Seismic Foldout: Barents Sea – Revealing the Hydrocarbon Potential

26 Technology Explained: The Death of Wiggle Picking

30 GEO Tourism: Morocco’s Atlas Range

38 Exploration: Exhumed Portuguese Oil Field

42 Seismic Foldout: De-Risking a Turkish Delight

52 GEO Physics: From Sensor to Image

58 Industry Issues: Digital Transformation to Hike Production

64 Seismic Foldout: Atlantic Offshore Morocco

78 GEO Media: William Smith’s Fossils Reunited!

Articles

New Jeanne d’Arc HD3D Seismic Survey Offshore Newfoundland Announced

TGS and PGS recently announced a joint multi-client High Density 3D project in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin offshore Newfoundland, East Canada. TGS and PGS recently announced a joint multi-client High Read More

Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part II – Arrhenius and Blackbody Radiation

In Part II we look at Arrhenius’ seminal 1896 paper and see how it relates to blackbody radiation and absorption of infrared radiation by the atmosphere, taking a closer look Read More

Seismic Data Collection Using Vibroseis Technology

The modern vibroseis is a complex, delicately tuned machine. The shaking gets translated into seismic data to provide insights into the subsurface for oil, gas and resource exploration. An 80,000 Read More

Exhumed Portuguese Oil Field Suggests Hydrocarbon Potential in Conjugate Newfoundland Basin

The discovery of an exhumed oil field in the central Lusitanian Basin in Portugal has significantly enhanced the hydrocarbon potential of Lusitanian and Peniche Basins and the conjugate Carson-Bonnition Basin Read More

Advancing Geophysical Interpretation in Oil and Gas Exploration

Geophysics must change – but it must also remain meaningful. “Geophysical data are a part of everything that we do,” Stephen Greenlee, president of ExxonMobil Exploration Co., told a roomful Read More

Hydrocarbon Potential of Algeria: A New Tectonic Model

A proposed new tectonic model for the northern Algerian Alpine Region based on studies of the Internal Zone rejects the previous model and suggests ideas for new hydrocarbon traps and Read More

Advancing Marine Seismic Imaging: From Sensor to Image

A new focus on innovation, technology and collaboration for the advancement of marine seismic acquisition is developing. Can Our Industry Still Innovate Marine Seismic Acquisition ? An example of innovation: Read More

On-demand Global Seismic Data

A Minute to Read: Searcher Seismic have recently launched Saismic™, a cloud-based service that provides global seismic data on-demand with native support for deep learning and advanced analytics. As machine Read More

Diving deeper to reveal hydrocarbon potential in the Barents Sea

A novel solution tailored for the Barents Sea An unusual acquisition configuration resolves the challenges of the Barents Sea through an innovative combination of streamer setup and advanced imaging technologies. The Read More

A Strong Start to CSEM Services in 2019

EMGS has to date acquired 950 surveys in 36 countries and territories, from Spitsbergen to New Zealand, all calling on their specialist CSEM services. Source: EMGS. EMGS has to date Read More

The Future of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources in Latin America

Latin America has the great geology to emulate the North American unconventional hydrocarbon saga, but other factors are determining a different path. As the ‘shale craze’ of North America transforms Read More

Atlantic offshore Morocco: new data, new insights

Regional geology of Morocco is key to new understanding Seismic data provide new clues to crustal architecture and deformation history A late Cretaceous ‘Atlantis’ The 2018 Morocco Atlantic Margin Well Read More

Croatia: Third Onshore Bidding Round

Licensing update on Croatia presents an opportunity to enter an underexplored European frontier hydrocarbon province. © CHA. Croatia’s third onshore bidding round, which opened in February 2019, is focused on Read More

Exploration Update: Largest Gas Discovery in Australia in Ten Years

Independent oil and gas producers, Santos, announced a recent gas discovery in the Carnavron Basin – which is thought to be the largest hydrocarbon find offshore Australia in ten years. Read More

The Generation Z Factor

How can we attract the next generation into the oil and gas industry? © Olena Golubova/Dreamstime.com. In my early youth joining the oil and gas industry was very much a Read More

Rock Physics Driven Quantitative Interpretation

A Minute to Read: Rock Physics Technology AS take the next step in reservoir characterisation with their own innovative Inverse Rock Physics Modelling method for rock physics driven quantitative seismic Read More

The Olympus Oil Field Development Optimisation Challenge

Combined optimisation of well control and well placement for the improved production of oil and gas resources. What is the Olympus Challenge? The OLYMPUS Field Development Optimisation Challenge was developed Read More

A Quantum Leap in Water Recycling

At the heart of the ‘Shale Boom’ in the US is the increased use of water for hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells – but how do we safely Read More

Huge Volumes of Oil and Gas Resources in Russia

The use of innovative technologies opens up huge volumes of remote oil and gas resources in the Yamal Peninsula in Russia. The ‘Arctic Gateway’ terminal at Novoportovskoye is designed for Read More

A Geological Tour of Morocco’s Atlas Range

The Atlas Mountains, with their folded sedimentary rocks and thick-skinned faulting, soar above dramatic gorges, lush palm oases, crumbling kasbahs, and the exotic souk in Marrakesh. Google Earth map of Read More

Earthquake Research Beneath Mount Manaslu

A Minute to Read: Following the devastating Gorkha earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015 there has been an intensification of earthquake research on and beneath Mounth Manaslu. Manaslu (8,163m), the Read More

Advanced Seismic Imaging in the Barents Sea

A Minute to Read: CGG, in partnership with TGS, will acquire a 5,000 km² multi-client 3D seismic survey in the Barents Sea this summer. Location of TopSeis survey to be Read More

Diversity is the Key to Success for the Future of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the Republic of Congo

GEO ExPro interviewed Mme Teresa Goma, the Director General of Hydrocarbons for the Republic of Congo, and discussed her thoughts on successful hydrocarbon exploration in the Republic of Congo. Read More

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