Mapping the Seafloor
GEBCO plans a comprehensive mapping of the entire ocean floor. It has been said that our present world view and comprehension of the Earth’s processes is a direct result of…
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Oil Prices and Crises
A Brief History of Booms and Busts: Part I Foreward Most of us know about the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 and the market crashes of 1985 and 2014…
GTL: More Than Just a Pipe Dream?
Converting natural gas into a liquid has been possible for a long time but has not been cost effective. This environmentally-friendly technique is finally becoming more viable, at all scales…
100 Years of Amazing Women
A review of ‘Anomalies – Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917 – 2017’ by Robbie Rice Gries Competition GEO ExPro will be raffling a copy of this book on our…
Modeling Exploration Strategies
What is the value of systematic use of controlled source electromagnetic information in frontier exploration? The value of information (VOI) depends on the targeted decision, how the information is used…
Why Leopards Can Change Their Software Spots
The take-up of innovative software is often held back by the effort involved in a long learning process Turning seismic waves into images of the sub-surface has been around for…
Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry
Ahmed Hashmi, Global Head of Upstream Technology, BP, talks about the big data future. What do you understand by big data? Big data is the challenge that many industries, including…
Oil is No. 1
Despite a strong growth in the use of renewables, oil is by far the preferred energy carrier When somebody tells you that the oil age is soon to end, and…
Part I: An Introduction to Deep Learning
Once, artificial intelligence (AI) was science fiction. Today, it is part of our everyday lives. In the future, will computers begin to think for themselves? “We tend to overestimate the…
Time-Lapse Refraction Seismic II
Foreward In Part I of this series of articles we discussed the development of time-lapse refraction seismic as a complementary monitoring method. Here we look at some field examples. The…
Hubbert: A Life-Long Quest for the Bigger Picture
The Oracle of Oil The Oracle of Oil by Mason Imman. W.W. Norton & Co. Ltd, 2016 The name Marion King Hubbert is synonymous with the term ‘peak oil’, derided…
Seismostellar
Messages from the past, written in gravity In the 2014 Sci-fi blockbuster ‘Interstellar’, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) has to save humanity whilst decoding messages from gravitational anomalies. (Spoiler alert: this involves…