A Dangerous Industry
E&P industry workers face some of the most difficult working conditions of any profession. All 13 people on board a helicopter ferrying them to Bergen died when it crashed in…
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Social Seismic: Petroleum and the Public
How do we win the battle for community hearts and minds? Top Read! Another chance to read this popular article written exclusively for Geo ExPro. It is a fact often…
Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond PART VII: CGG’s BroadSeis – A Change of Thinking
As geophysicists, we learnt and believed that seismic deghosting through ghost notches in pressure-only recordings was impossible when the sensors were deep. CGG changed that way of thinking. Instead of…
Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond PART VI: Towards a Ghost-Free Solution
PGS launched the ‘ghost-free’ GeoStreamer GeoSource solution in 2011: a time- and depth-distributed source using sub-sources operated at specific depths and time delays, attacking the source-ghost effect in seismic data.…
Collections – Simple Guides
The quick and easy way to access all our articles in the Simple Guides Collection. Collections Here is a quick guide to one feature we think will make your research…
Collections – Structural Guides
Collections This is the second quick guide to one feature we think will make your research of our extensive database of articles a little easier, now and in the future.…
A Passionate Geologist
Executive Vice President of Exploration for Shell, Ceri Powell, talks to us about her life and career – and how it felt to be described (in Fortune Magazine) as the…
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Are you getting the most out of our extensive back catalog of articles? At Geo ExPro we have been publishing articles for 12 years now, that’s a lot of articles…
What Chance a Production Freeze?
Saudi Arabia and Russia increase pressure on Iran In February Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to freeze oil production at the January 2016 level, but only if they are joined…
Ups and Downs in March
The oil price fluctuated a few percentage points up and down through March giving the industry occasional cause for optimism followed by disappointment. The oil price fluctuated a few percentage…
The Future is Shale
Shale oil and gas were considered rarities ten years ago. In the future these resources will constitute a sizable share of the market. The ‘shale shock’ is very well illustrated…
Groundbreakers
A new book on the history of the upstream petroleum industry is itself a groundbreaker in a fascinating field. Groundbreakers: The Story of Oilfield Technology and the People Who Made…