From Core to Pore
Advanced technology can now be taken into remote field environments to make lithology description much more detailed and accurate than was possible before From the early days of hydrocarbon exploration,…
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Revealing the mysteries of the Black Sea
The Black Sea: Something different? Black SeaSPAN data highlight unusual geometries that do not correspond to established general models of continental separation, leading to new ideas about the opening of the…
Publish What you Pay
Have we got that much to hide? The petroleum industry works in countries throughout the world, including those with political and economic instability and low levels of development. This can…
A World of Plenty
Shale gas resources are potentially huge, but so far only the US that has taken advantage of this low permeability reservoir rock. Shale gas has rejuvenated the natural gas industry…
Gas Hydrates Part IV: Where Are Gas Hydrates Found?
The need for energy is driving much of the current natural gas hydrate research. “While research on methane hydrates is still in the early stages, these research efforts… could potentially…
Lofoten and Vesterålen: Promised Land or Fata Morgana?
Offshore the remote and beautiful Lofoten and Vesterålen Islands, 1,000 km north of Oslo, is the last large, still unopened section of the Norwegian Atlantic margin. In 2010, the Norwegian…
Unique and Fast Analysis in the Field
Field-portable x-ray fluorescence (FPXRF) is a technique that is gaining momentum and acceptance in addressing applications in various fields in geology and mining. Thousands of these instruments are currently used…
The World in Our Hands?
The Petroleum Society of Great Britain’s PETEX Conference, held in November last year, had one unusual draw – a debate on ‘Obtaining a Social Licence to Operate, a Challenge for…
Know Your Faults! Part II
Part II: In the first part of this feature, we looked at the geometric representation and identification of faults. In this concluding article, we review the slip classification, stress orientations…
Charles Hutchinson: A geologist in love with South-East Asia
The young geologist was 24-year-old Charles Hutchison, and the advertisement was from the University of Malaya in Singapore for the position of an assistant lecturer in the newly established Department…
Connecting Operators and Geologists
GeoPlacer.com is a recently launched website that connects competence-assessed wellsite and operations geologists with clients, which officially opened online registration for operators at PETEX 2012 in London. Since its unveiling…
Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains
A new book describes the processes involved in mountain-building and sheds light on the significance of orogenesis to the petroleum industry. Through the centuries, people have been drawn to mountains…