Marine Seismic Sources Part IX: Seismic Surveys and Fish
What is known about the impact of seismic surveys on fish and fisheries? “I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.” George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President (1946- Read More
Offshore Florida: Regional perspective
What lies offshore Florida? Despite recent political events cooling interest in the area, newly acquired seismic shows that there remains considerable potential in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Read More
Unlocking the Secrets of the Barents Sea
The complexity of the Western Barents Sea necessitates the use of all available geological and geophysical data when undertaking regional interpretations, play fairway assessments and prospect definition. Several recent oil Read More
Seismic Surveys Without Cables
Cableless systems have been the long-time dream of exploration seismic for many years. Has it finally been attained? The desire to conduct surveys without cables has been an elusive, perhaps Read More
Learning from the Past?
As this edition of GEO ExPro magazine bears out, some of the most exciting areas in the oil and gas industry at the moment are in Africa; and not the Read More
Do We Need Another Seismic Company?
New kid on the offshore seismic block, Dolphin Geophysical, started trading in 2010 and has been growing steadily ever since. But with a few notable exceptions, seismic companies seems to Read More
Pre-Salt Exploration Trends in the Kwanza Basin
The continued application of new technologies is opening up a new exploration frontier in the deepwater Kwanza Basin. Since the discovery of the Girassol field by Elf in 1996, most Read More
Beyond Macondo
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong Read More
The East African Rift System – A View from Space
Remote sensing data has given a unique perspective on the East African Rift System, allowing both large regional structures and more subtle features to be identified and placed in context Read More
Exploring the Icelandic Frontiers
Iceland is renowned for its hot springs, geysers and active volcanoes that erupt from time to time, not world-class oil and gas production – but could basins close to this Read More
A Truly Magical Place
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Northern Tanzania is a World Heritage site renowned for its beauty and unique wildlife and one of the few places where active continental break-up and Read More
Ghana/Sierra Leone lookalike plays in Northern Brazil
Brazil Equatorial Margin Shows Promise As the Equatorial Atlantic opened, major oceanic fracture zones, ranging from the Chain Fracture Zone (FZ) in the south to the Monrovia FZ in the Read More
New Digital Africa Maps
New digital maps, based on ones originally produced by Africa specialist Ed Purdy, should shed new light on the exploration of the continent. Ed Purdy was an explorationist, academician and Read More
From Palm Oil to Petroleum
Lagos: the Liverpool of West Africa Lagos is famous for its teeming crowds and chaotic traffic jams, full to the brim with noise, pollution and crime. As the commercial centre Read More
Listening from a Distance
Active listening to passive seismic pays off for shale plays. The past decade has seen a major transformation in gas production in the United States, driven mainly by the development Read More
South Atlantic Palaeogeography: Reconstructing Palaeolandscapes for New Ventures
Use of palaeolandscapes is essential for understanding the South Atlantic, where the interplay of plate tectonics and landscape evolution has a direct influence on the development of hydrocarbons. Palaeogeography has Read More
Mighty Thoughts of Small: Nanotechnology for Upstream Applications
From opening new doors in the understanding of gas flow in low permeability shale packages to reservoir monitoring and enhanced recovery, nanotechnology’s potential is huge. Something that we are all Read More
The Standard Oil Story III: The Rise, Fall and Rise of The Standard Oil Company
In the past two issues of GEO ExPro (No. 2 and 3, Vol. 8), we looked at the profiles of John D. Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell; in this final part of the Read More