Searching for Stratigraphic Traps

Historic drilling and production data can be used to enhance exploration strategies focused on stratigraphic and subtle combination traps. Searching for Stratigraphic Traps Stratigraphic and Subtle Combination Traps. (Allan et Read More

Entering the Oil Sands

Statoil and North American Oil Sands Corporation (NAOSC) have entered into an agreement whereby Statoil will acquire all shares at a price of about USD 2 billion. Statoil will become Read More

Making Geology Accessible

Renowned palaeontologist and writer Dr. Richard Fortey is the President of the Geological Society in its bicentennial year. Author of five ‘popular’ books about geology, as well as numerous scientific Read More

Safeguarding the “Crown Jewels”

By preserving data and knowledge we can connect current to future generations of geoscientists. But to safeguard your most valuable assets you need some simple rules of thumb. All exploration Read More

Do OPEC Reserves Figures Matter?

Can the reported reserves figures of OPEC countries be trusted? And if not, what are the implications of this to government policy and decision making? “A few years ago, in Read More

It May Happen Again

Because I have been around a few years longer than some of the financial advisors I happen to meet, I can easily remember when the oil price went below USD Read More

Exploring Mature Basins

Both the UK and the Norwegian sector of the North Sea have reached maturity, meaning that most future discoveries will probably be in the small to medium range (i.e. <100 Read More

European Geoparks – Your Geological Heritage

The main objective of the european Geoparks is the promotion of sustainable development of their territories in europe. In addition they serve the purpose of protecting geological heritage for the Read More

The North Sea: Deep Imaging

North Sea Renaissance (NSR) is an ongoing long offset 2D seismic program that will total some 85,000 km at the end of this year. The program is acquired with a Read More

Introducing Viking Ship Design

‘This was too good an opportunity to say no to,’ says Rolf Rønningen, CEO of the new seismic company Eastern Echo. The company is building 4 high-end 10 streamer seismic Read More

Hollywood Pay-Dirt and the Active Basin

The Los Angeles basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon basins in the world. This is due to rapid subsidence and deposition of organic-rich source beds next to turbidite Read More

Deepwater Lures Statoil Back

Reprocessing of several seismic data sets acquired offshore Norway in the 1980’s have demonstrated significant improvements in both resolution and structural imaging. The improvements were gained mainly through more accurate Read More

Improving Structural Imaging

Reprocessing of several seismic data sets acquired offshore Norway in the 1980’s have demonstrated significant improvements in both resolution and structural imaging. The improvements were gained mainly through more accurate Read More

A New Era for Innovative Explorationists

Most of the sub-basins of the North Sea geological province are now considered to be in a mature exploration phase. The supermajors are consequently on their way out. Thanks to Read More

The Giants Causeway

In northern Ireland, at the heart of one of Europe’s most magnificent coastlines, the Giants Causeway with its rugged symmetry is visited by half a million tourists each year. The Read More

UKCS Activity and the Acreage Supply Gap

The past two years’ drilling in the UKCS has provided an average of over 800 MMboe (127 MMm3) in new or fallow appraised discoveries. There is good reasonto believe that Read More

Knowing Exactly Where the Data Is

“Both oil companies and seismic companies are increasingly more interested in accurate positioning,” says Peder Solheim, Managing Director at Geograf. “With prospects decreasing in size, and specific reservoir targets in Read More

Ireland: 90% Undiscovered, Undeveloped – and Underwater

Despite the much-vaunted emergence of the ‘Celtic Tiger economy’, the Irish offshore has traditionally been perceived as a high-risk, high cost environment. Can the Irish authorities change this perception in Read More