Issue 1

This issue of GEO ExPro focuses on Australasia and South East Asia; Reservoir Management; Geoscience, Sustainability and the Environment.

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Regional Update: New Technologies Unlock Value

8 Licensing Update: Brazil Offering Deepwater Blocks

10 A Minute to Read

20 Energy Transition Update: South East Asia, Renewables Moving Centre Stage

22 Reservoir Management: What Can Multiscale 3D Imaging Do for Energy Geoscience

34 Hot Spot: The Tide Turns

48 Recent Advances in Technology: From Arrhenius to CO2 Storage

52 Exploration: Unlocking Potential in South East Asia

56 GEO Science Explained: The Supercontinent Cycle: Patterns and Impacts

62 GEO Profile: Dr Katerina Garyfalou: Geoscientist to Green Pioneer

66 Exploration Update

68 GEO Media: The Azolla Story

70 Q&A: Completing a Masters in a Pandemic

72 FlowBack: Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

Features

14 Cover Story: Taste the Geoheritage of Auckland, New Zealand

26 Exploration: Undiscovered Potential in the Basement

30 Energy Transition: The Net-Zero Transition: An Important Conversation

36 Seismic Foldout: Gippsland Basin, Australia: New Data Reveals Further Potential in a Mature Basin

42 Geo Physics: Sustainable Geophysics

44 Reservoir Management: Mature Fields: Easing into Retirement or a Second Career?

Articles

Geoscientist to Green Pioneer

Katerina grew up in a business-oriented and entrepreneurial family coming from the Greek island of Andros. Andros, one of Greece’s shipping capitals, had an impact on her personality from a Read More

Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Potential in Sumatra

Exploring in Sumatra for oil and gas in naturally fractured and weathered basement reservoirs. Sumatra, Indonesia is the sixth largest island in the world covering an area of 445,000 sq Read More

Brazil Offering Deepwater Blocks in 17th Offshore Licensing Round

Late in 2020 Brazil announced details of its 17th Licensing Round in which 92 blocks in the offshore Campos, Pelotas, Potiguar and Santos Basins, covering a total of 53,900 km2, Read More

South East Asia: Renewables Moving Centre Stage

Although still heavily dependent on hydrocarbons, renewables are beginning to provide an increasing share of South East Asia’s energy. The last couple of decades has seen tremendous economic growth in Read More

Explore the Mid North Sea High

MNSH PRIME 3D is a multi-client new acquisition program from ION Geophysical that covers approximately 11,700km2 of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). ION Geophysical’s MNSH PRIME 3D MNSH PRIME 3D Read More

TGS Launches New Energy Solutions

In February, TGS announced the launch of its New Energy Solutions (NES) business, which will provide data and insights directed towards industries actively contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas Read More

Australia: Key Farm-in Well Comes Up Dry

BP with partners Cue Energy, Beach Energy and NZOG have completed drilling the Ironbark-1 wildcat in Block WA-359 offshore in the North Carnarvon Basin. BP with partners Cue Energy, Beach Energy and NZOG have completed drilling Read More

Completing a Masters in a Pandemic

Young geoscientists need resilience to succeed in their studies during these difficult times. Kirsty Lewis, a recent graduate of the Masters programme at Aberdeen University, explains the challenges she faced Read More

Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

Elon Musk offers $100 million (about 0.05% of his net worth) to any team that comes up with the best way to capture carbon. Everyone likes a pat on the Read More

Alaska: Lease Sale Struggles

After decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the 78,000 sqkm Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) went ahead in the last months of the Read More

GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 1 Out Now!

Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 1 is available for download. This issue of GEO ExPro focuses on Australasia and South East Asia; Reservoir Management; Geoscience, Sustainability and the Read More

Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

Elon Musk offers $100 million (about 0.05% of his net worth) to any team that comes up with the best way to capture carbon. Everyone likes a pat on the Read More

New Technologies Unlock Value

In the wake of Covid-19, oilfield service providers are turning to new technologies based on digitalisation and automation. With an increased focus on remote operations, productivity, and cost efficiency by Read More

Mature Fields: Easing into Retirement or a Second Career?

How can oil and gas fields extend their productive lives and are there opportunities to repurpose our fields, our facilities and ourselves? Many basins throughout the world, including those in Read More

Revealing the Intra-Zechstein hydrocarbon prospectivity on the UK Mid North Sea high

A newly acquired 3D seismic survey, covering the entire Zechstein play fairway in the UK Mid North Sea High, reveals the hydrocarbon potential of the complex and highly variable Intra-Zechstein Read More

Sustainable Geophysics

In what ways can geophysics be said to add value to society, economic systems and the environment? This was the question three Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG) members asked themselves Read More

Searcher Diversifies into Mining Sector

Searcher, a leading service provider of geoscience products for oil and gas exploration and production companies, has announced its expansion into the mining sector. Searcher, a leading service provider of Read More

Energy Transition with Security

The transition to sustainable energy is one of the fundamental challenges we face over the coming decades and it is my intention that GEO ExPro will continue to report fully Read More

Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XI – How Earth’s IR Photons are Transferred in the Atmosphere in the Presence of CO₂

Skydive with us into the quantum world and find out how Earth’s IR radiation is transferred in a plane-parallel troposphere in the presence of CO₂ molecules. At quite uncertain times Read More

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Issue 1

Columns

Features

Articles

Geoscientist to Green Pioneer

Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Potential in Sumatra

Brazil Offering Deepwater Blocks in 17th Offshore Licensing Round

South East Asia: Renewables Moving Centre Stage

Explore the Mid North Sea High

TGS Launches New Energy Solutions

Australia: Key Farm-in Well Comes Up Dry

Completing a Masters in a Pandemic

Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

Alaska: Lease Sale Struggles

GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 1 Out Now!

Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

New Technologies Unlock Value

Mature Fields: Easing into Retirement or a Second Career?

Revealing the Intra-Zechstein hydrocarbon prospectivity on the UK Mid North Sea high

Sustainable Geophysics

Searcher Diversifies into Mining Sector

Energy Transition with Security

Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XI – How Earth’s IR Photons are Transferred in the Atmosphere in the Presence of CO₂

What Can Multiscale 3D Imaging Do for Energy Geoscience?

Taste the Geoheritage of Auckland, New Zealand

The Azolla Story

US $11 Billion of Australian Gas Projects

The Supercontinent Cycle: Patterns and Impacts

The Net-Zero Transition: An Important Conversation

Gippsland Basin, Australia: new data reveals further hydrocarbon potential in a mature basin

Oil & Gas Exploration: The Tide Turns

Suriname: Further Success in the Upper Cretaceous

Trinidad: Elusive Deepwater Oil

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