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…
This is the second article in the Shallow Gas series of three, brought to you by Francis Buckley. Read the first article here: Shallow gas: How to better map the…
Shallow gas has long been known as a drilling hazard. However, the increasing costs of powering offshore production facilities, the problems associated with decommissioning, and the contribution of natural and…
If oil and gas are dirty words when talking about energy, it is even more dangerous to mention the c*** word. However, despite the rapidly rising share of renewables in…
During panel debates, where industry-stalwarts share their visions on how the energy sector is evolving, it is often said that the job market for geoscientists in the energy sector will…
James Horton at a closed loop manifold installation at Birmingham’s Moseley Hall Hospital. Source: James Horton. Shallow closed loop boreholes (150-300 m deep) for ground source heat pumps (GSHP) are…
Helium has two stable isotopes: Helium-4 (4He), which makes up 99.9998% of helium on Earth, and helium-3 (3He), present in absolute trace amounts. Whereas 4He forms continuously as a result…
One revealing experience occurred while I was working in a basin offshore Thailand. I only had temperature data from several wells. Once a 1D model was built for each of…
Ezdeen Ibrahim, Bapco Upstream, Guy M. Oliver And Milton Sanclemente, Geolog
With the advance of new AI-based technologies, drill cutting data can now be quickly and consistently analyzed and interpreted to better characterize the subsurface. Working together with Bapco Upstream, we…
The presence of oil in the Caribbean has long been known, and has successfully been explored for across the region – with producing fields in Cuba, Barbados, and the Caribbean…
But first, what was the talk of the town in 2024? Namibia stole many of the headlines, as it continues to do today and will probably continue to be doing…
“I took the most jagged path into the oil business, as you can imagine,” says Henry S. Pettingill. “There was nothing for me to identify myself with the oil industry,…