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Next Generation Hydrocarbon Exploration

Integrating technologies for basin analysis improves geological and geophysical models, enabling the next generation of hydrocarbon exploration. Seismic Interpretation Workflows Typically, seismic data processing employs a limited consideration for the…

Sediment Provenance Analysis

Integration of sediment provenance analytical techniques is yielding critical new insights for hydrocarbon explorers around the world. Sediment provenance analysis has become increasingly popular in the last decade due to…

Advancing Geophysical Science

Propelling the science of geophysics through cooperation to meet the grand challenges of tomorrow. Geophysical research needs to continue to forge ahead to ensure that the acquisition, processing and imaging…

Carbonate Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

The 2006 discovery at Tupi, offshore Brazil, opened up a new chapter for petroleum reservoirs: lacustrine carbonates capable of producing hydrocarbons at extremely high rates. Introduction The 2006 discovery at…

Is a Conjugate Margin an Analog?

Since the discovery of Tupi in Brazil and Jubilee in Ghana, the search has been on to prove that discoveries on one side of the Atlantic can be mirrored across…

Bright spots in petroleum exploration

Mike Forrest was responsible for recognizing and helping develop the use of seismic amplitude anomalies, or ‘bright spots’, in petroleum exploration. After a 37-year career with Shell and five years…

Diversity in the Energy Sector

Ask not what the energy industry can do for you, but what you can do for the energy industry to improve diversity in the energy sector.   © POWERful Women.…

A Must Have Book for Any Geophysicist

A a brief review of the book titled “An Introduction to Exploration Geophysics with Recent Advances”.   In 2007 Halfdan Carstens, then editor of GEO ExPro , asked Martin Landrø…

Future Energy Consumption

Primary energy consumption grew by 2.2% in 2017, which sets oil to be the largest provider of future energy consumption. Global Energy Consumption 2017 Primary energy demand (btoe) by (a)…

Hydrocarbon Hotspots Around the World

Worldwide exploration performance: how successful has 2018 been so far? Oil and Gas Exploration Success in 2018 Worldwide exploration performance. Exploration success is spread far and wide in mid-2018, against…

AAPG Energy Transition Forum 2018: A New Era for Geoscience

GEO ExPro Oil & Gas Conference Round-Ups: AAPG Energy Transition Forum 2018 The Energy Transition Forum was held in the impressive Koepelkerk Conference centre; a former church with a beautiful…

Growth Potential for Tight Oil

Breakeven prices are similar, but tight oil has the largest growth potential. Improved Oil Prices Average breakeven prices and potential 2025 liquid supply for different offshore and tight oil regions.…