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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

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The Present is the Key to the Past

Clif Jordan and Rick Schatzinger
The Principle of Uniformitarianism gives confidence in selecting well sites through looking at Holocene facies analogues. The Principle of Uniformitarianism states that the causes and rates of geologic processes that…

Integrating Data Types for Reservoir Characterisation

Scott Singleton, ION Geophysical
From microscopic core analysis of the wellbore to seismic data measurements of rock properties between wells, a multidisciplinary team is essential when solving exploration and production problems in complex reservoirs.…

Illuminating Resolution

Paul Wood
The latest developments in high-tech seismic vessels and ‘mega’ channel counts both on and offshore have driven a revolution in seismic data acquisition. From the Archive ‘Cover Story’. To subscribe…

Levelling the Playing Field …

Nikki Jones
How much do fossil fuel companies benefit from the public purse? In May this year, the IMF announced their revised calculation of global fossil fuel subsidies. The figure is an…

Global plate tectonic modelling

Dirk Cuthbertson
Constrained By Data Well and seismic data can be very sparse in frontier regions; however Getech’s extensive global gravity and magnetic database, the largest commercially available dataset of its kind,…

Ideas and Innovation

Thomas Smith
“We usually find oil in a new place with old ideas. Sometimes, we find oil in an old place with a new idea, but we seldom find much oil in an…

Making an Educated Guess

Jonny Hesthammer, Atlantic Petroleum Norge & Hans Gebauer, Geonova,
An online game shows that using input from a knowledgeable crowd can lead to better decisions. In a recent experiment, university students and oil industry staff, including non-explorationists, tried to predict whether exploration…

Capital Discipline – A Shake Up For The Industry

Nikki Jones
Despite record levels of capital investment since 2005, oil production outside of North America has virtually flat-lined and investors are losing confidence. How is the industry reacting? To say there…

Shale Gas in South Africa

James Mullins
‘South Africa’ and ‘energy giant’ are words infrequently strung together, as the country has almost no conventional onshore or offshore hydrocarbons of note. However, over the past couple of years…

Geophysics: A Simple Guide to Volumetrics

Ashley Francis, Earthworks Reservoir
A Simple Guide to Volumetrics We start this article with an example that many geoscientists may find uncomfortable, if not downright contentious. A top structure depth map from a depth…

Field-based Training: Luxury or Necessity?

Gary Nichols and Simon Baker, Nautilus Ltd.
What is the role of field geology today, what will it be in the future and what specifically is the importance of field-based training to petroleum geosciences? Is it a…

Oil is Still in the Lead

Halfdan Carstens
Oil is still our largest energy provider. And while fossil fuels predominate, renewables have a long way to go before they can make a considerable impact. Total energy consumption increased…