Explaining US$85 per Barrel
Nobody – absolutely nobody – was able to predict what was about to happen. In just three years, oil production from tight* reservoirs in the US tripled from 1 MMbopd…
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The pore pressure expert
Pore pressure models play a crucial role in the E&P workflow, from the early exploration phase to the final stage of field production. Pore pressure models and predictions are important…
Barents Sea Atlas Goes Digital
Atlas of the Geological History of the Barents Sea Editors : Morten Smelror, Oleg V. Petrov, Geir Birger Larssen and Stephanie C. Werner. Geological Survey of Norway, 2009. Available online:http://issuu.com/ngu_/docs/atlas_-_geological_history_of_the_b?e=3609664/9026048…
Supercomputers for Beginners – Part I
Supercomputers analyse vast amounts of data, faster and more accurately. By 2020 they will be doing a quintillion calculations per second. This article provides a simple guide to supercomputers. ‘f…
Water Matters!
Water occurs virtually everywhere in oil and gas fields – yet it is often ignored. But the composition of today´s formation water is the result of multiple hydrogeochemical processes, and…
The Pain and Sorrow of Reservoir Modeling
Back in the late eighties our ambition was to put modeling capabilities on every geoscientist’s desk. Now in 2015 that aim has been achieved, but are we actually producing the…
A Gloomy Future?
Will the crude oil price break through in 20 years’ time? Or will tight oil and renewable energy work in parallel to keep the price low? At the time of…
Environmentally Friendly Seismic Source
eSource is a tunable, flexible seismic source which reduces the high frequency emissions that can affect marine life. Everyone working in the oil and gas industry is aware of the importance of…
Bountiful Continents
Africa and South America together contributed ~20% of the world’s total oil production in 2013 but in the current industry downturn investment dollars may move away from ‘difficult’ countries to…
The stratigrapher
Many stratigraphers are employed in the oil industry both within oil companies, and more commonly, in service companies; their task is to determine the geological succession in well sections, in…
Getting More with Less
Will low oil prices bring the unconventional revolution to its knees? The past few years have brought some major changes to the global oil markets. The US has taken over as the…
Why Share Data?
Malcolm Fleming is CEO of Common Data Access Ltd (CDA), which was established with the aim of sharing the costs and benefits associated with managing subsurface UK E&P data through…