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No B without A

In oil and gas, production is influenced by market de­mand, but it remains relatively decoupled from end-use consumption – you produce hydrocarbons, sell them, and the relationship between producer and…

Moveout democratises data transformation

UK-based Moveout Data has spent more than a decade addressing this problem as a service provider. Now, the company is taking a different ap­proach: Releasing its in-house data transformation platform,…

What else is hiding in your reservoir brine?

For more than a century, pe­troleum exploration has fo­cused on hydrocarbons. Yet, sooner or later, every produc­ing oil and gas field also brings some­thing else to the surface: Formation water.…

Subsurface noise #8

THE REALITY BEHIND FLASHY JOB TITLES I recently spoke with someone who works for a large international operator. To me, as a representative of a very small company, the job…

Serendipity maximisation

“When people make a creaming curve for a basin,” says Ian Longley from GIS-Pax, “they draw a line, and say that’s going to be the future for the basin.” “The…

AI-driven integration for deeper subsurface insights

The state of geoscience today: Challenges & opportunities The rise of ai in subsurface workflows Subsurface characterization has long relied on expert interpretation of subsurface rock samples, well logs, and…

The benefits of being a second mover

“I was in oil and gas for most of my career,” says James Deckelman, the CEO of Deep Sea Minerals, when we meet online. “And the opportunities I have had…

Drilling problems? Ask your CEO

Henrik Tingström didn’t need much time in the industry to see how much unstructured data was being left on the table. It was during internships at oil majors that he…