The Dinosaur Coast
The steep, towering cliffs along the Yorkshire Coast of northern England have become a favoured field excursion destiny for petroleum geology students. Excellent analogues to the Middle Jurassic Brent reservoirs…
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Working at the Interface Between Academia and Industry
“If anyone had suggested that as a geophysically-minded geologist I would end up working in close collaboration with the Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, I would have thought they…
Life in the Old Dog Yet!
Even a seriously mature province like the North Sea can bring surprises. The Catcher discovery, made in June this year, is proof that impressive new hydrocarbon accumulations can still be…
The First UK Giant Oil Field
The giant Forties Field was discovered in 1970, only the second oil field to be found in the UK North Sea. Originally predicted to run dry by the early 1990,…
Monitoring of the Ekofisk Field
Installing a Life of Field Seismic system on Ekofisk will help understand reservoir depletion and ensure future production wells are drilled where there is still oil left. ConocoPhillips, operator of…
Cornwall’s Geological Treasures
“Land’s End”: is there a more evocative place name in the world? A visit to England’s furthest south-west corner reveals a land of extremes, with a wildly beautiful coast, picturesque…
GeoTourism: Gotland
Blue sky, turquoise sea, white coral beaches, a warm pleasant breeze; who could ask for more? The Caribbean is, however, oceans away. You are on Gotland, the largest island in…
3D Contrast Property Mapping
One of the major challenges in understanding the nature of the subsurface is to accurately depict geology when data are sparse. By combining well logs and seismic data, seismic inversion…
Beyond Tadpoles, Beyond SCAT
Complete dip and image analysis improves structural interpretations and reduces risk. Is your seismic fair or poor? Are your structures complex? Are your reservoirs sub-thrust, sub-basalt, sub-salt, or pre-salt? Are…
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”…
A Change of Viewpoint
Christian Höcker spent over twenty years with European super giant Shell, where he witnessed many changes, before moving to a completely different working environment in small start-up company JOA Oil…
Providing In-depth Knowledge
Making depth conversions more reliable has become an obsession for a dedicated geophysicist. As a result the Norwegian consultancy Aker Geo now claims to have the very best tool to…