‘What I Do’ Special Edition
As the oil and gas industry enters a new era, what will you be doing? Price crashes and ‘disruptive’ technologies have had a major impact on industry jobs in recent…
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Exploration Geochemistry in the Digital Age
The companies that lead the next wave of exploration will be those that concentrate their time on analysis and not on data acquisition. Oil and gas exploration is experiencing revolutionary…
The Wildest Plays on the Planet
Is it time to think outside the box? Apparently ‘wacky’ play ideas have already proved profitable, even resulting in the discovery of supergiant fields. There are probably many more unconsidered…
Insights into Exploration – Tools for a New Era
Streamlining the process of exploration to provide a better understanding of geological risk for frontier plays. Despite a protracted low oil price, the number and geographical distribution of wildcat exploration…
Potential Risks from Outdated Technology
Embrace modern technologies to assure organisational and operational security. Anyone who has been in the oil and gas sector for the last 20 years or so has seen vast improvements…
Time-Lapse Refraction Seismic – Part I
A Complementary Monitoring Method? Would you like me to give you a formula for… success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure… You can be discouraged by failure…
Time-Lapse Seismic and Geomechanics – Part I
Ekofisk, Norwegian North Sea, was one of the first fields where time-lapse seismic proved an excellent tool for monitoring and mapping geomechanical changes in a producing field A stone is…
Seismic Interpretation with Machine Learning
A methodology to deal with ‘Big Data’. Machine learning resolves two significant issues in seismic interpretation: firstly, the ‘Big Data’ problem of trying to interpret dozens, if not hundreds, of…
Back to Source Rocks: Part II
What makes a sedimentary rock an effective petroleum source rock? A review of the analytical methods used to characterize source rocks for successful petroleum exploration and production.
The Most Exciting Upcoming Exploration Wells
A review of some exciting high impact exploration wells expected in 2017. E&P exploration struggled in 2016, with lower investment budgets resulting in lower overall activity. In 2016, a total…
Exploring Towards a Deficit
The oil industry is not able to find enough liquids on a global basis to replace what is being produced. The good news is that a potentially supergiant discovery (i.e.…
Magnetics for Hydrocarbon Exploration
How can a tiny mineral called magnetite help to unravel hydrocarbon seepage and subsurface petrology? It’s not MAGIC – it’s MAGNETICS… in integrated workflows! ‘Magnetism, as you recall from physics…