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…
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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…
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.…