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Strike-slip kinematics for pop-ups and pull-aparts

Molly Turko - Devon Energy
Pop-ups and pull-aparts, re­leasing- and restraining-bends, positive- and negative-flower structures. These are the vari­ous names given to the little, and big, structures that develop along strike-slip faults. They often form…

A 100% success rate

Henk Kombrink
A little bit of humour is a very effective way to dress up a conversation, and VP Exploration at Petronas Mohd Redhani did just that during today’s opening session at…

Digitisation before digitalisation

Richard Taylor, Petroscan
When a country where some previous exploration efforts took place decides to run another licensing round in an attempt to attract interest from the global exploration community, legacy data quickly…

Uncertainty – the most important result of basin modelling

David Rajmon, Consulting Geologist
I have long wanted to write about uncertainties in basin modelling. Despite their general acknowledgement, they are commonly underestimated due to various biases and psychological pressures. Explorationists sometimes live in…

Data is not the new oil

Henk Kombrink
“Deeply misleading”, that’s how Thomas Halsey describes the commonly cited phrase “Data is the new oil”. At least when it comes to data held by the upstream industry. The main…

Peat: So hot right now

Henk Kombrink
“The offshore wind sector is still very much a geotechnical exercise”, I was told recently by someone with knowledge on the matter. “But that model is due an update.” Despite…

A frontrunner in deep-sea minerals

Ronny Setså
The Norwegian deep-sea mineral community closely followed the talks from Nagase Kunpei and Kiyotaka Orita of the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) during the Deep Sea Minerals…

Seeing around OBM

Henk Kombrink
Geochemical analyses focused on characterising oil are frequently challenged by contamination with oil-based muds (OBM). This renders the results either uncertain or in some cases unusable, particularly in solvent extraction…