Potential Risks from Outdated Technology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…
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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…
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…
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…