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…
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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…
Around the world in 59 Stages
Reducing exploration risk through modeling Building Tool-Sets for Global Exploration: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology and Source Rocks Source rocks are a pre-requisite of any petroleum system. Whilst the deposition of a potential…
Geologists at War
2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of World War One. The Great War, as it was generally referred to in Europe, heralded a major shift in political power across…
Maps for Understanding the Earth.
Set up over 100 years ago, the Commission for the Geological Map of the World has been an important factor in the drive for standardisation in geological mapping and nomenclature.…
What’s the Point of Conferences?
More and more conferences on every facet of the petroleum industry seem to be appearing. What purpose do they serve, and what makes them effective? We talk to Ben Sayah,…
It’s Our Ocean to Save…
Coral reefs have survived ocean warming, acidification, coastal development, tectonic and weather events – but can they survive these events if combined with an oil spill? Somewhere in the world…
Building World-Class Workforces
Competency Management becomes an essential tool International oil and gas companies are challenged to realise strong returns on their assets while maintaining the highest standards of safety and operating performance.…
The Bigger Picture
GEO ExPro Magazine is 10 years old. And what better way to celebrate than with an edition full of – well, all the usual variety of articles you enjoy, designed to entertain,…
What is Putin’s plan?
How on earth did this happen? How, in less than a year, did East and West get themselves back to a state of cold war? Last winter there were mass demonstrations…