From scratch
“No data, no problems,” laughs Tanguy Lomme from Epslog when he reminisces on his years at Shell when he worked as a reservoir engineer. As soon as he joined founder…
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Turning adversity into opportunity
“I grew up in the state of Perak, north of Kuala Lumpur, in the town of Batu Gajah. Being the oldest of eight children, I felt the responsibility to take…
Subsurface noise, Issue 1, 2025
HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE ON YOUR PAYROLL WHEN YOUR ASSETS HAVE ALL CEASED PRODUCTION? That’s the question one particular operator faces in the North Sea. And they have found a…
Die Metallkrise ist in sicht: A call for German deep-sea involvement
“Japan, Saudi-Arabia, Norway – more and more countries rely on raw materials from the deep sea. Germany can’t escape this trend.” The Federation of German Industries (BDI) published a report…
Finding scribbles on the sides of composite well logs
It must have been in November 2018, as I chaired a session at the PETEX Conference in London, when Ronny Parr from bp gave a talk entitled “From Trash to…
Energy sobriety – a moment of clarity in a “dry January”
As we enter a new year it’s always important to ponder what we have learned from the previous year. I discovered that most people think that energy is simple and…
What happened to the Allseas vessel that brought nodules to surface in 2022?
When the interviewer asks the CEO of Allseas, Pieter Heerema, how much money the company sunk into converting the former ultra deep-water drill ship Vitoria 10000 into getting the newly…
Make geomodelling grAIt again?
Not too long ago, reservoir modelling came at a time when the industry was relying on super capable draftsmen/women who could literally translate the mind of geologist into paper. Resources…
Mixing models madness
With most prospects, multiple trapping elements contribute to the potential size of the discovery. For instance, a prospect can be a 4-way at the top of the closure, but may…
Subsurface noise, Issue 6, 2024
PREVENTING BLOWOUTS IN GEOTHERMAL WELLS It is not only only oil and gas wells that can experience blowouts. The same can happen when targeting hot water or steam, as a…
The structural risk of vertically exaggerated cross-sections
It is quite common for seismic lines to be displayed with high degrees of vertical exaggeration. However, vertically exaggerated sections can skew the true geometry of a basin and provide…
Shallow gas in production and decommissioning
This is the third and final article in the article in the Shallow Gas series, brought to you by Francis Buckley. Read the previous articles here: Shallow gas: How to…