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The Hard Truth About Realistic Energy Transition

Lack of exploration and production over the last six years now threatens energy supply and sends gas prices through the roof. Since the last commodity price crash in 2015–2016, a…

Vintage Maps Reborn

Using 3D animation software and surface models for new hillshade mapping techniques to produce hyper-realistic 3D-like maps. A new trend of map-making has recently evolved and changed the way we…

Making a Date with the Data

Whether you’re trying to monetise climate risk or find new ways to extend the life of offshore oil and gas assets, getting access to usable data is a vital part…

Are Friends Electric?

Automation is an area of rapid development in many industries, and it is becoming increasingly popular in the exploration and exploitation of resources and the broader geosciences. Upstream exploration requires…

Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

Elon Musk offers $100 million (about 0.05% of his net worth) to any team that comes up with the best way to capture carbon. Everyone likes a pat on the…

Mature Fields: Easing into Retirement or a Second Career?

How can oil and gas fields extend their productive lives and are there opportunities to repurpose our fields, our facilities and ourselves? Many basins throughout the world, including those in…

No Transition Without Offsets

If you are a big emitter of carbon, then reaching net zero means investing in carbon offsets – in the short term at least – and it’s perhaps no surprise…

Breakthroughs in Geology

In his new book, Breakthroughs in Geology, Graham Park, Emeritus Professor of Tectonic Geology at the University of Keele, UK, describes the ideas that he believes have transformed earth science.…

Ray-Based Seismic Modeling

Ray-based seismic modeling has come a long way and the motivation for this is simple enough: performing a modeling study is significantly cheaper than failing in the field! Field managers…