Turkey – A Key Transit State in Crisis
Turkey is slipping into authoritarianism and conflict. How stable is the West’s key ally and oil supply route? Everything appeared to be going so well. In power since his landslide…
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Safeguarding Your Petrotechnical Professionals
Oiling the machine with a new contract between management and the petrotechnical professional. The continued search for oil and gas relies in equal measure on good management and superior petrotechnical…
Erbil. Ancient City – and ‘Second Dubai’
Contrary to many people’s expectations, Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, is a peaceful, busy and surprisingly modern city, with a history that stretches back over 7,000 years. Erbil, known…
A New Approach to Cores
Digital archiving of core information affords the oil and gas industry an opportunity for rapid evaluation of core. The keys to the efficacy and value of cores in the oil…
Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond PART XI: Which Technology to Choose?
Using the Utsira High as a field laboratory for broadband testing. The answer, my friend, is hiding in the waves, the answer is hiding in the waves (with apologies to Bob Dylan, and thanks to…
Oil Price Prediction Competition
It’s the hottest topic of conversation around the office water cooler and everyone has an opinion on where the oil price will go next. Now we are giving you the…
Decarbonising Energy
Scientists tells us that any rise in global temperatures needs to be limited to less than two degrees over pre-industrial times. Displacing coal is the primary focus. Does gas provide…
Offshore and Deepwater Challenges Remain
The Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources opened the 2015 Atlantic Margin Licensing Round on 18 June 2014 advising that applications for Licensing Options are to…
Psychology of Exploration
Setting out to explore for hydrocarbons, Noble Energy’s Susan Cunningham found herself on a journey of self-exploration, which led to a host of discoveries beyond her wildest imagination. She has…
Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond PART X: IsoMetrix – Isometric Sampling
IsoMetrix is more than broadband seismic. It goes beyond, by reconstructing the deghosted wavefield in 3D, and performs fine spatial sampling in all directions. In this article we ask: how…
Keep on Innovating
Technological progress and innovation are key to the oil and gas industry. We may have found the ‘easy’ resources – although the geologists who explored for hydrocarbons with a compass and a hand-drawn map…
Exploration beneath Salt
The prospectivity of stratigraphically younger sediments beneath a salt layer has held oil and gas explorationists’ interest for years. The target of imaging technology has been to enhance the salt-sediment…