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Why traffic light play maps are useless

When exploring a new area, it is com­mon for E&P com­panies to produce traffic light maps, with red areas be­ing the ones where one of the key play elements is…

Seismic data on the workbench

“My goal is to equip explorationists with a toolbox containing all relevant algorithms to efficiently create optimal seismic volumes for interpretation and stratigraphical analysis,” says Anders, who hails from Sweden…

“Playtime is over”

“A lovely little department dedicat­ed to geothermal energy. That’s what I found when I started at the Interna­tional Geothermal Association (IGA) in 2017,” says Marit Brommer, who had left a…

A cool vitrinite reflectance model

A basin model de­scribes the ther­mal evolution of a basin to esti­mate when its source rocks expel hydrocarbons and of what type. Basin models do so by evaluating a num­ber…

Creating a source rock and storing it for good

“We started as a project when Swiss supermarket concern Migros wanted to find a solution to process its food waste in a carbon-neutral way,” says geologist Tim Baars from Recoal.…

The E&P industry of the future

An industry in transition or transformation? The upstream E&P sector has faced challenges over the last decade, including a downturn, the energy transition, and COVID-19. The industry is resilient but…

Estimates of trapped hydrogen globally – a reality check

Over the last few years, there has been a continu­ous stream of news cover­age on “ground-breaking natural-hydrogen discoveries.” A paper by Ellis and Gelman, published late last year, very much…