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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Vol. 9

Issue 1

This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on the Middle East and New Technologies

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Update

14 A Minute to Read

42 Giant Fields: The Great Burgan Field, Kuwait

64 GEO Tourism: The Majestic Landscape of Guilin

70 History of Oil: The Search for Oil in Oman

86 R ecent Advances in Technology: Sound in the Sea

90 GEO Cities: Kuala Lumpur

92 E xploration Update

94 Market Update

96 Geomedia: The Quest

98 Q&A: Arabian Sequence Stratigraphy

100 Hot Spot: The Barents Sea

102 Global Resource Management

Features

18 Cover Story: The Zagros Uplift

26 Technology: Working Under Pressure

32 Technology: Workstations Promise New Life for Geology

36 Seismic Foldout: Santos Basin, Brazil

48 R eservoir Management: Enhanced Oil Recovery – Utilising Captured CO2

52 E xploration: The Bakken Oil Story

58 Seismic Foldout: Offshore Uruguay

78 E xploration: The Arctic – The Real Final Frontier

Articles

Offshore Uruguay

  Readers choice One of the great things about editing an online magazine is that you can get real world feedback from your readership. Data tracking makes it fairly simple Read More

The Great Burgan Field, Kuwait

Second only to Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar, the supergiant Burgan field in Kuwait was discovered by a series of wells drilled during 1938-1952. Sitting on a huge structural anticline and occupying Read More

The Zagros uplift

“We climbed for most of that day, conquering step by step the Morvarid Pass, only to drop down again, having reached the top; and as evening fell we came down Read More

Force Majeure in Syria

The much-vaunted Arab Spring, which has brought new life to the Libyan oil industry, where production is reportedly already nearly back to pre-revolution volumes, is having a less satisfactory impression Read More

Advances in Deepwater Reservoir Monitoring

With the market for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) continuing to grow along with deepwater field expenditure (Douglas-Westwood forecasts global deepwater CAPEX of US$225 billion between 2011 and 2015), TGS company, Read More

Cyprus: Historic Gas Discovery

The inhabitants of the island of Cyprus had a very exciting late Christmas present, when Noble Energy announced that they had made a significant gas discovery offshore on December 28 Read More

Kuala Lumpur – A Piece of Asia

Although sited a long way from Malaysia’s oil and gas producing regions, the vibrant, exciting city of Kuala Lumpur is the centre of the country’s hydrocarbon industry, as it is Read More

Longer Runs at Higher Speeds

Maximising fixed cutter bit performance in shales and carbonates. Fixed cutter bits – generally termed PDC bits for their poly-crystalline diamond cutters – have been achieving high rates of penetration Read More

Working Under Pressure

Richard Swarbrick’s Ikon GeoPressure team in Durham predicts sub-surface pressures at regional and local scales, vital for the future pursuit of difficult hydrocarbons. Working under pressure may not be everyone’s Read More

Oil: A Political Tool

Oil is the world’s most powerful political tool at the moment. While softer supply/demand balances point to weaker oil prices in the first half of 2012, global geopolitical risk outweighs Read More