Internal OPEC Rivalry Ahead?
With the world’s fifth-largest petroleum reserves, Iraq has – at least on paper – considerable potential for boosting production. If its goals are reached, it will bring the country’s production to…
Middle East
Kirkuk. A Silent Giant Oilfield
The giant Kirkuk field, discovered in 1927, has had a very chequered history and requires imaginative reservoir engineering methods to return it to optimum productivity. The Kirkuk oilfield is partly…
The End of an Era – or More of the Same?
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who died in January 2015, had effectively ruled Saudi Arabia since 1996. During that time he introduced some tentative reforms but basically continued the ‘status…
The Petroleum Geology of Iraq
A comprehensive, up-to-date appraisal of the reservoir rocks, source rocks, seals and traps that control Iraq’s petroleum resources is reviewed by Munim Al-Rawi, an expert in the regional petroleum geology…
Petroleum systems in Jordan
Jordan is located within the producing sedimentary basin in the North-West Arabian Plate. Exploration was initiated in the country in 1947 by the Iraqi Petroleum Company, yet to date only…
Petra The Rose-Red Wonder
Petra, an ancient red city in the middle of the Arabian Desert of southern Jordan, reveals its glorious archaeological past in addition to its deep chronological history. In 2007, Petra…
A Golden Age for Gas?
Will shale gas be a game changer for Brazil? At the 2012 Rio Oil and Gas Conference it was revealed that the ANP had commenced a survey of Brazil’s shale…
Technology for Virtual Boreholes
Can a technology devised from space exploration help discover hydrocarbon resources? In the 1980s, Dr. Colin Stove, a researcher at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, was working on a…
Welcome to the new GEO ExPro website
Welcome to the new GEO ExPro website. We hope you enjoy the updated multimedia-rich interface that blends our usual brand of must-read geoscience articles with the latest interactive maps, superb…
Lively Enthusiasm Leads to Success
Mohamed Al Harthy, one of the first generation of Omani petroleum geologists and a founder member of the rapidly growing Geological Society of Oman, has an infectious enthusiasm and passion…
Pressure Prediction in Exhumed Basins
Predicting pressure in basins that are exhumed or contain rich source rocks is difficult. We look at a case study from the Barents Sea region. The dominance of gas over…
If Iran Strikes a Deal…?
After years of frustration and stalemate in the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme between Iran and the six world powers (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus…