Geoscientist to Green Pioneer
Katerina grew up in a business-oriented and entrepreneurial family coming from the Greek island of Andros. Andros, one of Greece’s shipping capitals, had an impact on her personality from a…
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Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part XVI – A Greenhouse Model for Stratospheric Cooling – 2
In this part, we introduce you to the 1D window-grey radiation model of the atmosphere, which illustrates the physical essence of the mechanism by which a CO2 increase cools the…
More Data, More Detail, Higher Frequency
C&C Reservoirs have announced that they will be improving their content structure in 2022 to meet the needs of the energy transition in the upstream subsurface oil and gas industry.…
Towards a new era
Sea Bed Logging is a new technology that offers the opportunity to detect trapped hydrocarbons in the subsurface prior to drilling. Shell EP has recently conducted a number of very…
“If we are smart enough …”
Dr. Raymond Levey is in charge of an organisation with superb knowledge of the world’s sedimentary basins, fossil energy and alternative energy sources. We have talked with him about the…
Central Utah Thrust Belt: Tectonics of a New Exploration Province
The recent discovery and development of the Covenant oil field by Wolverine Oil & Gas Corporation in the Central Utah fold-and-thrust belt opens a new exploration province in North America,…
How much oil?
Read this carefully (adapted from ’BP Statistical Review of World Energy’): “Proven reserves is the estimated quantities of oil which geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be…
Quantum leap for seismic
The introduction of Q-Marine* technology a few years ago has given WesternGeco a competitive edge, the company claims. In the Oslo Technology Centre they are proud of having been crucial…
Market Update
Trading assets on the web, New Orleans, a city of past and present history, SeaBird to acquire SeaBed, Increased capacity for multi component seabed data acquisition, Doing it alone, Do…
Remote Sensing – The Rise of the Virtual Geologist
Over the years remote sensing has developed from an obscure and expensive experiment to an essential and cost effective tool in the search for hydrocarbons, particularly in remote and inaccessible…
Rejected!
Most of us would bluntly say that geology has nothing to do with politics. We tend to believe that geological research is independent of political constraints. Editorial Rejected
AVO responses: The good, the bad and the evil
AVO analysis provides the geologists with a powerful tool that give information about pore fluids, lithologies and reservoir pressures. However, AVO signatures can easily be misinterpreted without a proper feasibility…