Riding the Switchback
A Brief History of Booms and Busts: Part II This article continues the history of oil price booms and bust, and Part I can be read here. In this second…
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A Cleaner Future for Drilling
Is it possible to drill with environmentally friendly fluids? Over the last 30 years, Oil Based Mud (OBM) and Synthetic Based Mud (SBM) have become the fluids of choice for…
Digitally Transforming Data Management for Geoscience
Technology and processes are changing rapidly, but data remains at the heart of everything we do. As the oil and gas industry recovers from the downturn, the surge of new…
Gas is on the rise
LNG sales reached 258 million tons in 2016 and the market is expected to double by 2030 Humans have harnessed naturally occurring gas for over 2,500 years, since the Chinese…
Why Dinosaurs – and Outreach – Matter
Review of the PESGB’s GEOLiteracy Tour “Which of these is a dinosaur?” asks Professor Ken Lacovara, showing his audience pictures of a pterodactyl and a fluffy penguin chick (answer: the…
A New Era For LNG
Low energy prices provide a challenging environment for new liquefied natural gas projects The 2015 United Nations COP21 meeting in Paris saw world leaders finally commit to measures to limit…
Learning on the Rocks
Helping non-geologists gain a better understanding of reservoir geology by exposing them to outcrops, in multidisciplinary teams, with geological guides on hand Understanding the geology of a potential or producing…
Induced or Triggered Seismicity – A long term approach
Long term passive monitoring requirements for the identification and regulation of human-induced seismicity The challenge of linking seismicity with human activity is not a new one. Surface seismic networks, for…
Shaping the Future of Seismic Interpretation
A quicker way from seismic data to geomodel – or how seismic interpreters have finally come to the centre of the exploration workflow From the advent of the first computer-aided…
A Long-Overdue Book!
Understanding Oil and Gas Shows and Seals in the Search for Hydrocarbons Let me start with my conclusion: Mr. Dolson’s book is a long-overdue work, filling a critical knowledge gap…
Fit for the Future
Two years into the downturn and still counting – but also still drilling and producing oil and gas. Since 2015 amazing strides have been made in efficiencies and technological advances,…
Francis Gugen
Advocate for Change Francis Gugen has had a long and varied career in the O&G business, including as regional CEO of Amerada Hess in North West Europe, Chairman of seismic…