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Using Parallel Margins as Analogues

It’s not just conjugate margins that can provide viable analogues. A comparison of the known hydrocarbon systems in the Perth Basin of Australia and the Morondava Basin of Madagascar provides…

Invest in Big Data

The business value to transform subsurface data into a digital format is tremendous, and well worth the investment. In a typical oil and gas digital transformation project, ten terabytes holds…

A New Era for Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry

Full Tensor Gravity GradiometryTM (FTG) has entered a new era with multiclient acquisitions. Bell’s proposed Sri Lanka FTG survey. © Bell Geospace. Full Tensor Gravity GradiometryTM (FTG) has entered a…

Mapping the future

Why are you fascinated by maps? Francis Cram studied at the universities of Bristol and Manchester before embarking on a career as a petroleum geologist, working on international projects in…

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…