Big Time for Small Companies
Although some major oil producers view the prospects offshore UK as too small for their attention, their exit leaves interesting opportunities for smaller companies. The recent 25th UK offshore Licensing Read More
Norway: The Victoria Gas Discovery
“Victoria is probably the largest undeveloped discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf,” title Rune Hope said in a presentation he gave to the 3rdbiennial petroleum geology conference “Exploration Revived 2009” Read More
Marine CSEM – what’s the future like?
Offshore Electromagnetic surveying, CSEM, was commercialized in 2002 as a new exploration technology for finding hydrocarbons. Following some seven years of trial and failure, we have asked one of the Read More
An Unusual Route to success
A move from Drilling Fluids Engineering to Human Resources allowed Jatinder Peters to rise to one of the highest levels in ONGC – and gave her the opportunity to encourage Read More
Measuring Seismic with Light
Fibre optic sensing technology offers the potential for a cost-effective, reliable reservoir monitoring system as an alternative to seismic systems based on electronics. Interested in learning about fibre optic seismic Read More
Oil Finders Use Seismic Analogues
A seismic line displayed in GEO ExPro caught the interest of a dedicated geologist as he spotted a pattern that resembled that of a major oil discovery he knew very Read More
Gas Hydrates-Not So Unconventional
Recent tests in the Arctic permafrost clearly demonstrates that gas hydrates can be produced using current technologies, opening the door for a new, viable energy source. For years, gas hydrates Read More
Concerned About the Environment
Syncrude, the Canadian energy giant that is producing some 350,000bopd from the oil sands in Alberta, has been charged with the deaths of nearly 500 ducks in a massive, toxic Read More
The Great Crew Change
The professional workforce in the hydrocarbon industry is aging and over half of today’s workforce will retire within the next 10 years. This ‘brain gap’ must be addressed before it Read More
Oil from Babylon to Iraq
Iraq, which has been on the mass media’s spotlight and international focus in recent years, has a record of oil and bitumen dating back to the earliest human civilizations more Read More
Canadian Oil Sands
With more than 2 billion barrels of oil to be recovered, StatoilHydro has a huge resource to tap into in the Alberta oil sands, which may last into the second Read More