Columns

5 Editorial

6 ExPro Update

12 Market Update

14 A Minute to Read

30 GEO ExPro Profile: Farouk Al-Kasim

42 Recent Advances in Technology: Fish Hear a Great Deal

52 History of Oil: The Abu Dhabi Story

72 GeoTourism: Walking Through Time

86 Exploration Update

88 Geo Cities: Rio de Janeiro

90 Q&A: The Barrel Awards

92 Hot Spot: Russia/Norway Barents Sea

94 Global Resource Management

Features

18 Cover Story: Technology: Illuminating Resolution

26 Technology: The Best Place to Find Oil

36 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: South-western Barents Sea: Improved Imaging with Long-Offset Data

48 Exploration: Georgia: Oil in the Sub Thrust Zone

58 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: Italian Adriatic Sea: Filling in the Gaps

64 Exploration: A Growing Atlantic Play

68 Reservoir Modelling: Leveraging Complex Geologies

78 Exploration: Syria Offshore: Exciting New Frontier

82 The Standard Oil Story, Part 2: Franklin D. Rockefeller, the First Oil Tycoon

Articles

Illuminating Resolution

The latest developments in high-tech seismic vessels and ‘mega’ channel counts both on and offshore have driven a revolution in seismic data acquisition. From the Archive ‘Cover Story’. To subscribe Read More

Squeezing the Last Drop

Farouk al-Kasim, an Iraqi with ten years experience in one for the world’s most prolific oil provinces, went on to serve the Norwegian government for 23 years and was instrumental Read More

Leveraging Complex Geologies

The ability of reservoir models to leverage seismic and accommodate complex geologies ensures robust and reliable models, improved decision-making, more justifiable investments, and improved field performance. Including the building of Read More

One Year On

The first anniversary of the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been marked in a number of ways. Foremost it has been an opportunity to remember the eleven Read More

A Growing Atlantic Play

Recent discoveries in West Africa have highlighted the importance of the Upper Cretaceous throughout the Atlantic Margin. The Barents Sea is the Northern extension of this growing play. Sandstones of Read More

E³ = ST

Harnessing Dr. Scott Tinker’s enthusiasm and boundless vivacity may not instantly solve the global energy equation; however he is delivering a clear directive on energy that we all can embrace. Read More

Georgia: Oil in the Sub-Thrust Zone

A beautiful country, flanked by mountain ranges and famous for fine wine – but Georgia’s primary contribution to the hydrocarbon industry is as a corridor for oil and gas travelling Read More

The Abu Dhabi Oil Discoveries

In the 1930s Abu Dhabi was a poor fishing village on the edge of the desert, but the discovery of oil has revolutionised the Emirate. It is thought to possess Read More