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…
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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…
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…
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…