Delighting in Geophysics
Dr. Thomas A. Smith founded Seismic Micro-Technology (SMT) in 1984 and led the development of the widely adopted Kingdom Suite software suite for seismic interpretation. He went on to found…
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Marine Seismic Part VII: Fish Are Big Talkers
Of the 31,900 species of fish living today we know that more than 1,000 make sounds, ranging in frequency from 50 to 8,000 Hz. For most fishes, the sonic mechanism…
Smart Fields: People, Processes and Technology
The implementation of Smart Fields solutions has enabled Shell to increase production, reduce deferment, and improve ultimate recovery while reducing costs and HSSE exposure. Intelligent digital oil or gas fields…
The Present is the Key to the Past
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
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
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 …
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
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
“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
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
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
‘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…