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Fast and slow catastrophes trapping slope and basin floor plays

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found

June 19, 2023

Fast and slow catastrophes trapping slope and basin floor plays How slumping, sliding and folding of passive margin stratigraphy creates the elements for successful exploration while the latest seismic imaging…

Companies feel pressure to accelerate frontier exploration

Henk Kombrink

June 14, 2023

“I might as well go gardening if it was not my role to speed up the process of discovering reserves through frontier exploration”, said Neil Hodgson from Searcher. One of…

An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem

Henk Kombrink

June 14, 2023

Shell is a large company, and with that comes the existence of siloes across the organisation. Management in Shell recognised that as a problem, and therefore it created spin-off company…

From oil and gas to geothermal

Henk Kombrink

June 13, 2023

Now known as S3 Smart Seismic Solutions, I met with Jean-Baptiste Chalvidan and Patrick Robert at the EAGE Annual in Vienna last week. “Compared to the years with CGG, where…

The drilling hazard that has become a prospective target

Dag Helland-Hansen, EMGS

June 7, 2023

This year’s gas demand surge and associated price hike have led many companies to re-initiate exploration for gas. On that basis, shallow gas accumulations have re-appeared on the global exploration…

Spinning the CCS project wheels – it’s time to change gear!

Richard Cobb - Geologica

June 7, 2023

As I write, CO2 is being injected from the Nini platform in the Danish North Sea as part of Project Greensand, the world’s first cross-border offshore CO2 storage project facilitated…

What a meeting at a conference can do

Henk Kombrink

June 5, 2023

“As many people from my generation, I started my career with Saga Petroleum”, says Tore Karlsson. Having graduated as a geophysicist from the University of Bergen, at Saga he was…

Dropping nodes from a supply vessel

Henk Kombrink

June 1, 2023

“While the node market has evolved in the sense that individual nodes have become smaller and therefore lighter to handle”, a completely new way of operating these devices has not…

Your ChatGPT-powered personal subsurface document assistant

Jesse Lord - Kadme and Peter Bormann - ConocoPhillips

May 10, 2023

During meetings, we often encounter detailed and specific questions, such as whether a particular well had shows in the Jurassic, why a licence was relinquished, or if there are any…

Machine learning validation – An often understated requirement in geophysics

Charles Puryear, Spectral Geosolutions

May 8, 2023

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which entails a neural network with three or more layers. It is thanks to deep learning that applications from fault picking to…

Is it possible to differentiate between meandering and braided river deposits using gamma-ray logs?

Henk Kombrink

May 5, 2023

For most people working in subsurface teams, discussions related to the interpretation of depositional facies on the basis of well logs are part of the daily routine. The more geologists…

Pumped geothermal power projects – a global overview

Elliot Yearsley

April 26, 2023

Pumped-well geothermal projects utilise the moderate temperature range of geothermal fluids between 100-190 C. Below this temperature, geothermal fluids are generally used for direct heating and above this the fluids…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Worldwide

Fast and slow catastrophes trapping slope and basin floor plays

Companies feel pressure to accelerate frontier exploration

An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem

From oil and gas to geothermal

The drilling hazard that has become a prospective target

Spinning the CCS project wheels – it’s time to change gear!

What a meeting at a conference can do

Dropping nodes from a supply vessel

Your ChatGPT-powered personal subsurface document assistant

Machine learning validation – An often understated requirement in geophysics

Is it possible to differentiate between meandering and braided river deposits using gamma-ray logs?

Pumped geothermal power projects – a global overview

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