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Building Local Content Through Education

A new working model for building equitable relationships in international academic partnerships. Elphinstone Hall at the University of Aberdeen. Building local content, also known as capacity building, is a key…

Energy and Climate Change

Professor Michael Stephenson is Director of Science and Technology at the British Geological Survey, but before becoming a leading international research geoscientist, Mike worked as a school teacher in rural…

Jobs? Better operations? Look under a different rock!

We have witnessed a tremendous transformation in the oil industry in the last few years, beginning with the adoption of the new techniques of ‘factory drilling’ of horizontal wells, with…

Gas with a Difference

There are no simple solutions to transforming the world’s energy systems. Fuel cell demonstrating a device that converts chemical potential energy into electrical energy. © Igor Serdiuk/123rf.com Imagine using excess…

Advances in Stratigraphic Trap Exploration

Analysis of the AAPG giant fields database reveals that there has been a step change in volumes of oil attributed to non-structural traps in the last 20 years. Why is…

What is chemostratigraphy?

The rapid expansion of global oil and gas exploration from the early 1960s was accompanied by the expansion of the areas being examined by explorationists towards more challenging, often frontier,…

GII Purchases Silenced Mini-Vibrator Fleet

The Geophysical Institute of Israel (GII), a leading global seismic acquisition provider, has purchased a brand new silenced mini-Vibrator fleet from INOVA Geophysical and coupled it with the Quantum nodal…