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GEO ExPro

December 12, 2013

Paradise Arrives Geophysical Insights, the Houston-based geosciences company, chose SEG 2013 in September to announce the commercial launch of Paradise™, a geosciences analytic software platform. Paradise executes and manages workflows based…

Using Gravity to Enhance Recovery

Bjarte Fageraas, Martha Lien and Remy Agersborg, Gravitude AS

December 12, 2013

4D gravity data is a very useful additional and independent source of information for monitoring reservoirs. Conceptual picture of water influx in reservoir during gas takeout. Water replacing gas in…

A Challenging Job!

Jane Whaley

December 11, 2013

A move from geophysical R&D into marketing, sparked partly by his proficiency in English, was an unusual career path for BGP geophysicist Liu Juxiang, but it has taken him all…

Frack Off! But Where To?

Jane Whaley

December 11, 2013

Only someone who has spent the last five years in the remote Amazon rainforest could be unaware of the influence of unconventional hydrocarbon resources on the economy of the United…

The transparent imperative

James Hahn II, drillinginfo

December 9, 2013

The oil and gas industry is seen by and large with great scepticism by the American and European public, and are often painted as a bunch of fat cats who…

Hearing with light!

Paul Wood

December 9, 2013

Most people are familiar with the use of fibre optic cables in the communications industry. Light is shone into an optical fibre and, using the property of total internal reflection,…

Shale gas: Promises, challenges and global implications

Jane Whaley

December 9, 2013

“Several times in the past we have thought that we were running out of oil, when actually we were running out of ideas.” Professor Parke A. Dickey, University of Tulsa…

The canadian driller: A life in oil

Bruce Blanche

December 9, 2013

My father, Herbert ‘Bert’ John Blanche, was born in Montreal, Quebec on the 16th of September, 1909. His father, Edwin Josiah Thomas Blanche, had served with distinction in the Canadian…

Alaska north slope: Source rocks hold promise

Thomas Smith

December 9, 2013

In Alaska’s October 2010 lease sale, Great Bear Petroleum surprised just about everyone by winning 105 tracts covering over 2,000 km. directly south of the Prudhoe Bay Complex (see GEO…

Oil prices under pressure

Thina Margarethe Saltvelt, Ph.D

December 9, 2013

Oil prices came under heavy pressure in the first weeks of April. Weaker-than-expected macroeconomic data from the US and somewhat disappointing growth figures from China in the first quarter contributed…

Demand and salaries rising

Zak Marklew

December 8, 2013

With the geosciences and subsurface industry constantly growing with further exploration and development worldwide, the demand for skilled technical subsurface professionals has increased. Over the last 12 months permanent salaries…

Broadband seismic technology and beyond, Part I: The drive for better bandwidth and resolution

Lasse Amundsen & Martin Landrø

December 7, 2013

Part I: The drive for better bandwidth and resolution Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. – Robert M. Pirsig (1928–), American writer…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Worldwide

A Minute to Read

Using Gravity to Enhance Recovery

A Challenging Job!

Frack Off! But Where To?

The transparent imperative

Hearing with light!

Shale gas: Promises, challenges and global implications

The canadian driller: A life in oil

Alaska north slope: Source rocks hold promise

Oil prices under pressure

Demand and salaries rising

Broadband seismic technology and beyond, Part I: The drive for better bandwidth and resolution

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