Issue 3

Vol. 19

This issue of GEO ExPro focuses on North America and Europe; Unconventional Resources; Carbon Capture and Storage.

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Regional Update: UK Unconventionals

8 Licensing Update: Reversal in Alaska

10 A Minute to Read

15 GEO Tourism: Mountains, Minerals and Magma along North America’s Largest Rift

26 HotSpot: Gas Renaissance in Europe

28 Technology Explained: Artificial Intelligence – Its Use in Exploration and Production: Part 3

36 Reservoir Management: Evaluating Fluid Drainage Dynamics in Resource Plays

38 Geophysics: Seeing the Whole Picture

60 Technology Explained: From Arrhenius to CO₂ Storage – Part XVI

70 Energy Transition Update: What is the U in CCUS?

Features

20 Seismic Foldout: Accurate Reservoir Attributes Delivered with GeoStreamer X in the South Viking Graben, Norway

31 Cover Story: CCS in Scandinavia

42 Seismic Foldout: New Life for the Extended Orange Basin

48 Palaeontology: Jurassic Deep-Sea Fishing

52 History of Oil: A Time for Reflection

56 Planetary Geology: The Artemis Project

64 Seismic Foldout: A New Arcadia: Seismic Acceleration of the Nova Scotian Margin

74 Exploration: California Dreaming

79 Exploration Update

81 GEO Gear: The Geologist’s Hammer

84 FlowBack: Keeping Disruption at Bay

Articles

A new arcadia: seismic acceleration of the Nova Scotian Margin

Re-imagining the proven hydrocarbon basins offshore Nova Scotia In 1958 Parke Dickey wrote, “We usually find oil in new places with old ideas. Sometimes, also, we find oil in an Read More

The Rio Grande Rift

Mountains, minerals and magma along North America’s largest rift: an exploration of the 1,000-kilometer-long Rio Grande Rift. After compression built the Southern Rocky Mountains, Neogene extension split the range along Read More

Seeing the whole picture

During the pandemic, Lyme Bay Consulting took the opportunity to download all the Operator-released 3D seismic data in the UKCS to produce a series of Post-Stack Merged Seismic Volumes covering Read More

Geophysics and Petroleum Exploration in North America: A Time for Reflection

We take a look at the advent of ‘remote’ sensing and the adoption of seismology in petroleum exploration in North America. Prospecting for oil in the the early 20th century Read More

Drum Roll to Success at Kveikje

Equinor has reported a significant oil discovery at the Kveikje prospect in the Norwegian North Sea. Map showing location of Licence PL293B, where the oil discovery at the Kveikje prospect Read More

Accurate Reservoir Attributes Delivered with GeoStreamer X in the South Viking Graben, Norway

Improving Risk and Uncertainty Assessment using GeoStreamer X Datasets in the South Viking Graben, Norway GeoStreamer X is an integrated broadband multi-azimuth acquisition and state-of-the-art depth imaging solution. Here, we Read More

Keeping Disruption at Bay

Vagit Alekperov warns that there is a risk of global oil and gas supply shortages in just five years if the current trend of limiting industry investment persists. Vagit Alekperov Read More

The Artemis Project: Geology’s Gateway to the Stars

NASA had been under pressure to put a scientist on the Moon – and so in 1972, they sent geologist Harrison Schmitt. NASA’s Artemis I patch. © NASA.In December 1972, Read More

New life for the extended Orange Basin

The Orange Basin – An underexplored oil giant? The Orange Basin offshore Namibia and South Africa The Orange Basin is part of the volcanic-rifted passive margin south of the Walvis Read More

Reversal in Alaska

The Bureau of Land Management announced on April 25 that the US administration under President Biden is removing almost 50% of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) from Read More

California Dreaming: Revisiting the Oil-Rich San Joaquin Basin, California

New potential unveiled in the San Joaquin Basin, California (CA) where reprocessed 3D seismic surveys and structural geology provide new oil opportunities in an exploration-mature and prolific oil basin. West-Side Read More

What is the U in CCUS?

While there is a strong push towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy in areas like electricity generation and personal transport, some industry sectors remain ‘difficult to decarbonise’, such as Read More

CCS in Scandinavia

Norway has led the way in carbon capture and storage (CCS) for many years, underpinned by its leading role in oil and gas production in the Norwegian, Barents and North Read More

The Geologist’s Hammer

Few of us today are fortunate enough to have had careers as field geologists (see GEO ExPro Vol. 19, No. 1, page 72), but almost all geologists will have undertaken Read More

A New Arcadia: Seismic Acceleration of the Nova Scotian Margin

Re-imagining the proven hydrocarbon basins offshore Nova Scotia, using modern seismic processing techniques to re-process legacy data. Playing the Nova Scotian margin is a game of two halves. On the Read More

Artificial Intelligence – Its Use in Exploration and Production – Part 3

Are we finally seeing AI fulfil its potential in oil and gas exploration? In this series of articles, we are attempting to establish the background to the current resurgence in Read More

Gas Renaissance in Europe

The drive for gas development gathers momentum, as increased energy prices spur on investment; conflict and political instability encourage domestic supply priorities; and post-pandemic macro-economic demands counter global warming hysteria Read More

Evaluating Fluid Drainage Dynamics in Resource Plays

In this article we discuss how fluid chemistry can be deployed to directly confirm or refine the assumptions made when optimising developments in hydrocarbon production from resource plays. Hydrocarbon production Read More

Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XVI – A Greenhouse Model for Stratospheric Cooling – 2

In this part, we introduce you to the 1D window-grey radiation model of the atmosphere, which illustrates the physical essence of the mechanism by which a CO2 increase cools the Read More

GEO ExPro Vol. 19, Issue No. 3 Out Now!

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