Ken Glennie – A Petroleum Pioneer
Professor Ken Glennie has spent a lifetime at the forefront of the oil industry. His achievements range from producing some of the first maps of turbidites in the field, to Read More
Source Rock Subcropping in the Baffin Bay
Seabed samples from the Baffin Bay document an active hydrocarbon system offshore northwest Greenland. The northwest Greenland shelf is a frontier petroleum province in the arctic Baffin Bay. Limited seismic Read More
The Smell of Crude Oil
Very few places on Earth combine stupendous scenery, recreation, and oil production. But in the central Colorado Plateau of southeast Utah, the San Juan River has carved two deep canyons Read More
Striving to Define an Oil Province
The future of the Norwegian Barents Sea, following almost 30 years of exploration, is still in the making. A new look at the petroleum systems in combination with high quality Read More
The Growing Role of Geophysics
The use of geophysical methods in petroleum exploration continues to expand and is an integral discipline in the discovery and production of oil and gas deposits. We have seen a Read More
Technology: Changing exploration – using non-seismic technology
The main purpose of applying EM data is to improve exploration decision making. “As a geoscientist working in an oil company which values integration, we try to maximise the use Read More
Deepwater Frontier Exploration
Offshore Indonesia, TGS has recently come up with innovative ways of combining data from a number of sources to examine the prospectivity of underexplored deepwater frontier basins in a cost-effective Read More
Yes We Can
GEO ExPro has now, thanks to an overwhelming response from readers and advertisers, been published for five years. We started in 2004, and since then we have (including this edition) Read More
Iceland: First Licensing Round
Iceland has announced their very first oil and gas licensing round. Some 40,000 square kilometres are offered on the Jan Mayen Ridge that lies between Norway and Iceland. The first Read More
Half a Century of Oil in Libya
2008 marked the 50th anniversary of the very first commercial oil discovery in the Sirt Basin, Libya, in 1958. In the years since then, 22 giant and more than 25 Read More
Shooting Seismic in Linked Circles
“Coil shooting” is a cost-effective technique towards better imaging over small to medium sized exploration areas. Encouraging results may lead to a rapid increase in the next 5+ years. Seismic Read More
Conference Provides Truly Global Perspective
Dr. Bernie Vining, Regional Director for consultants Gaffney, Cline & Associates, is Chairman of the Technical Committee for the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference. He talked to GeoExPro about the Conference Read More