North America

Money Really Isn’t Everything

The story of the infamous Koch brothers is both riveting and cringe-inducing, a painful confirmation of everything your mother told you about the evils of money, its power to destroy…

Vibrant, Exciting New Orleans

Unique New Orleans, one of the oldest cities in the United States. Renowned for music, architecture, street parades and cuisine, the city also had its time in the oil industry…

Putting Science into Policy

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) set up the Geoscience and Energy Policy Office in Washington, D.C. in 2005. Edith Allison, Director of the Office since 2012, explains its…

An Education in Oil

How can the media best engage the public on fossil fuels? Documentary or drama? The BBC has been attempting both. The 1st of August 2015 marks the bicentenary of the publication…

The Active Volcanoes of Hawai‘i

Breathtaking views, surreal landscapes, and the chance to come face to face with an active volcano, the Island of Hawai‘i offers the geotourist encounters of a lifetime, and scientists a…

Driven to success on the seismic superhighway

3D seismic risk reduction for license round Phillip Hargreaves On Australia’s North West Shelf, acreage in shallow water multi-TCF neighborhoods is highly prized and competitively sought. To assess the value…

Palaeozoic Plays of the Great Basin

The Palaeozoic tectonic history of the Great Basin of Nevada in south-western USA parallels that of the US east coast, where the Marcellus Shale has been a target of intense…

Congo: Significant Westward Extension

Eni’s Nene Marine 3 exploration well in the offshore Marine XII Block encountered a significant wet gas and light oil accumulation in the pre-salt clastic sequence, thereby outlining a significant extension to…

Russia: Major Reserves Boost

Appraisal drilling by Gazprom at its Kirinskoye Yuzhnoye field in the Okhotsk Sea off Sakhalin Island has resulted not only in the addition of gas reserves, but also in the discovery of a big oil…

The Great Black Giant

On a dream – and a bit too close to her garden – the old wooden derrick was skidded to its third location on Mrs. Daisy Bradford’s 970 acre, East…