Rejuvenating Opportunities
“If we don’t invest in our people and the brainpower they bring to the table, we won’t have a sustainable exploration business. And one way to invest in the brainpower is to…
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The Power of Movement
Kinematic modelling and analysis unlock many secrets of geological systems, providing a structurally valid framework for further analysis and risk assessment, ultimately reducing uncertainty in hydrocarbon exploration and production. Timing…
Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond. PART IX: BroadSeis in Production.
There are benefits for field development through the application of both the low and high frequency ends of the BroadSeis bandwidth. In the previous part in this series on broadband seismic…
Communicating Naturally
Critical decision making can be speeded up through Natural Language Generation software, a technique that originated in the medical world. On the surface, you might not think that the oil…
Is there a future for OPEC?
Without Saudi Arabia’s calming words, we are now abandoned to the market. Editors Patch If you are a regular visitor to these pages you will know that we like to…
Mongolia. Potential in an Emerging Economy.
Mongolia’s oil and gas E&P sector has been characterized by, well, not very much – up until now. Mongolia emerged as an independent and fledgling democracy following the collapse of…
The Chief Geophysicist
My undergraduate degree, at the University of Connecticut, was in geology, but I took a geophysics course in the final year and really enjoyed it, so I decided to do…
Inside the Rock
For the first time, geoscientists can produce 3D images of rock features at a wide range of scales – from millimetre through micron and down to nanometre size – and…
Belated Happy New Year, 2015!
It’s nearly 12 months since we relaunched the new website and now that we have had time to iron out a few of the unavoidable bugs and annoyances we are…
Applying Innovations in Geophysics to the Hydrocarbon Industry
Regular GEO ExPro contributor Martin Landrø is Professor of Applied Geophysics at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim,…
Black & Blue
Using blue sky science data to aid in de-risking black gold exploration. For nearly 50 years the International Ocean Discovery Program has drilled, cored and measured the earth beneath the sea…
What is a Digital Oil Field?
Something of a ‘buzz’ phrase – but what do we mean by ‘the Digital Oil Field’? ‘Digital Oil Field’; ‘Integrated Operations’; ‘Smart Fields’; ‘Intelligent Oil Field’: all phrases that sum…