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…
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Hybrid terrain, unified technology – GT’s land‑nodal system for high‑quality transition zone seismic data acquisition
For sixty years, Geofizyka Toruń (GT) has built its reputation by pushing technological boundaries and exploring the most challenging environments in the field of global seismic acquisition. Since its earliest…
“Running a company is like having a long-term relationship – you have to give and take, but always carry on”
“Moscow was a dark place near the end of the 1980s. Literally, dark. It was hard to find a bar to have a drink,” remembers Vasilii Shelkov when we start…
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…
Until now, hydrogen exploration wells were drilled half-blind
There is often an element of coincidence associated with how companies form. That also applies to how Viacheslav Zgonnik and Jonathan Allard from French tech start-up HyReveal came together two…
The mood music of the E&P geoscience job market
When I was doing an internship at NAM (Shell/Exxon joint venture) in the Netherlands in 2003, an experienced geologist took me aside and said, “Henk, be aware, China is coming,…
What are we risking and why is it important?
Risk is about the chance of finding producible hydrocarbons; uncertainty is about the volume of hydrocarbons that may be found in the case of success. The geological Probability of Success…
“It is quite a risk hiring you”
Yes, some people will break out of the shackles of their former role and flourish in a completely different career. But let’s not forget that for others, there is a…
Subsurface noise #7
CORING MUDSTONES A wellsite geologist told me the other day that he was on one of the major oil platforms in the North Sea some years ago, drilling yet another…
Your fault stability analysis might be lying to you
The Mohr space represents stress states and, combined with fault strength criteria, is used to assess fault stability. It is simple, elegant, and widely accepted. It is also, when applied…