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…
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Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part V – Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide
By building on knowledge from the petroleum industry and experience of over 23 years of storing CO₂ in deep geological formations, we can make a new value chain and a…
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…
Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood: A Pioneer in Petroleum Engineering
Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood, arguably the father of petroleum engineering in Britain and a giant in the history of the petroleum industry, died 100 years ago in 1919. We take…
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…
Recent Advances in Climate Change Research: Part III – A Simple Greenhouse Model
What would the temperature of Earth be without the atmosphere? By using simple physical models for solar irradiation and the Stefan-Boltzmans law for blackbody radiation, we can estimate average temperatures…
The Origin of Shale Gases
The origin of shale gases has important implications on their ability to provide hydrocarbon reserves. As we all know, the discovery that gas formed and locked in shale source rocks…
High-Res Characterisation of Unconventional Reservoirs
GEOLOG has developed an innovative workflow, integrating wellsite activity with laboratory work to define a comprehensive, high-resolution understanding of unconventional reservoir properties. © GEOLOG. Unconventional activities constantly require new technological…
Surface Geochemical Campaigns
Reducing costs and risks of deepwater hydrocarbon exploration: the benefits and technology of seep hunting and surface geochemical campaigns. A seep hunting and geochemical campaign can provide economic and cost-saving…
Reservoir Rock Characterisation Using Raman Spectroscopy
Raman Spectroscopy enables precise reservoir rock characterisation studies and provides invaluable insight into the reservoir’s heterogeneity and other fine-scaled details. In today’s competitive market, reservoir rock characterisation has become a…