Columns

5 Editorial

6 ExPro Update

14 Market Update

16 A Minute to Read

44 GEO ExPro Profile: Eldad Weiss

52 History of Oil: The Start of Something Big

64 Recent Advances in Technology: Fish are Big Talkers!

74 GeoTourism: The Earth’s Oldest Fossils

78 GeoCities: Denver, USA

80 Exploration Update

82 Q&A: Peter Duncan

84 Hot Spot: Australian Shale Gas

86 Global Resource Management

Features

20 Cover Story: The Submerged Continent of New New Zealand

26 The Standard Oil Story: Part 1 Ida Tarbell, Pioneering Journalist

30 Newfoundland: The Other North Atlantic

36 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: Gulf of Mexico: The Complete Regional Perspective

42 Geoscientists Without Borders: Making a Humanitarian Difference

48 Indonesia: The Eastern Frontier

58 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: Exploration Opportunities in the Bonaparte Basin

68 Are Onshore Exploration Technologies Lagging Behind?

Articles

The only complete regional perspective

A unique basin-wide dataset The GulfSPANTM data illuminates the geology of the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin, all the way from onshore to deep water. The GulfSPAN kmTM data illuminates the geology Read More

The Earth’s Oldest Fossils

On a splendid white beach in Shark Bay, Western Australia, I finally found the worlds oldest fossils. They are commonly referred to as living rock, and they have ruled the Read More

The Other North Atlantic

Canada’s offshore oil and gas industry was born off the coasts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and is seeing promising signs of a rebirth. Exploration drilling for oil and gas Read More

Indonesia: The Eastern Frontier

New light has been shed on the petroleum potential of the Northern Arafura Shelf area in Eastern Indonesia. The Northern Arafura shelf area is frontier in nature but is on Read More

Making a Humanitarian Difference

The mission of ‘Geoscientists Without Borders’ is to connect young geoscientists, academia and the industry with projects that will benefit people and the environment around the world. “The vision of Read More

Start of Something Big

An oil discovery in the Moose Range wilderness on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula would bring a momentous change to the territory and have oil exploration implications far to the north. The Read More

Pikes Peak or Bust

With the superb backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, the ‘mile high’ city of Denver has one of the most attractive locations of any oil town. Although Denver is now well Read More