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…
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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…
Job Opportunity with GEO ExPro
GEO ExPro have an exciting job opportunity for an online Digital Editor to join our small team of talented professionals, and to help produce the industry’s favourite petroleum geoscience magazine.…
Just Having Fun
Rewarding careers in an exciting industry While reading Robbie Gries’ excellent book about pioneering female petroleum geologists in the AAPG, (GEO ExPro review), I was struck by the sense of…
Plan Before You Pick – Consult Before You Commit
A seismic interpretation project planning tutorial As geophysicists, project leaders and managers, between us we have many decades of experience of seismic acquisition and interpretation projects, including central California, deepwater…
Arthur Beeby-Thompson: Oil Pioneer
Born in Northampton in 1873 and known simply as ‘Beeby-Thompson’, his achievements were such that the foreword to his auto-biography was written by Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the USA…