Activity Picking Up in 2017
The sanctioning of new projects is expected to pick up in the North Atlantic Between 2010 and 2014 activity on the North Atlantic region was at an all-time high, reaching…
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Taking the Plunge: How nodes can navigate ocean bottom seismic into the mainstream
Norwegian start-up company inApril explain why they took the plunge into the ocean bottom seismic market. It is sometimes said that it took nearly 30 years for towed-streamer 3D marine…
Some Basic Facts
Oil is still no. 1, but renewables are picking up fast – very fast. Global energy consumption grew by only 1.0% in 2015. This is in line with 2014 (1.1%),…
Fundamentals of Reservoir Understanding
An industry tendency to resort to overly complicated modelling and simulation software is being challenged in the existing low oil-price environment. Some are now utilising low-cost solutions, highlighting the fundamentals…
Searching for Overlooked and Underexplored Frontiers
As a founding partner of Kosmos Energy, Paul Dailly has been involved in some of the most exciting and significant discoveries of recent years. He tells us the story behind…
Optimists and Pessimists
Experts are divided when predicting the oil market As Jarand Rystad of Rystad Energy recently pointed out, several important questions face the industry: when will the oil market rebalance? What…
The GEO ExPro Archive
This week at GEO ExPro we are running a themed edition that focuses on a number of our most popular articles that can be broadly categorised under the heading ‘educational’.…
Geo Education Themed Edition
Special themed edition Geo Education Themed Edition In the northern hemisphere the autumnal equinox is now long past and on cold but clear days fall colours frame an iridescent sky,…
Codes and Ciphers – PART I
Decoding Nature’s Disorder Information is the resolution of uncertainty. Claude Shannon. Talk clearly and not so far-fetched as a cipher. Medieval – origin unknown. In many languages the word ‘cipher’…
27 Years of Misery
Is it time to learn from the past? Statistics teach some basic history. In the time that Norway has been an oil producer, the oil price was lowest in 1971…
10 Years of the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award
“… Best Student Petroleum Exploration Programme in the World” The AAPG/AAPG Foundation Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) competition is a programme for post-graduate, primarily MSc, geoscience students. The programme gives students…
Texas sized mystery solved?
Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, has reddish colouring at its poles. Could hydrocarbons be the source of the ‘staining’ of this enigmatic distant planet? Scientists at NASA are reporting that they…