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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

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How AI-based image analysis of cuttings enables better reservoir definition

Ezdeen Ibrahim, Bapco Upstream, Guy M. Oliver And Milton Sanclemente, Geolog
With the advance of new AI-based tech­nologies, drill cut­ting data can now be quickly and consistently analyzed and interpreted to better characterize the subsurface. Working together with Bapco Upstream, we…

The Caribbean

Jonathan Leather, NVentures
The presence of oil in the Caribbean has long been known, and has successful­ly been explored for across the region – with producing fields in Cuba, Barbados, and the Carib­bean…

Eyes wide open at the right time

Henk Kombrink
“I took the most jagged path into the oil business, as you can imagine,” says Henry S. Pettingill. “There was noth­ing for me to identify myself with the oil industry,…

Getting drill-ready for the energy transition

Henk Kombrink
Frank van Bergen “If you don’t include the subsur­face in the journey towards reducing CO2 emissions, it will be impossible to reach net zero”, says Frank van Bergen. Frank heads…

The evolution of managed pressure drilling

Henk Kombrink
Nick Ward “Managed pressure drilling (MPD) has been around for a long time”, says Nick Ward when we meet in his office in Tullos, Aberdeen. Nick oversees the MPD business…

Jevons paradox

Rodney Garrard
The environmental ideology driving the statement, “the sooner hydrocarbons or fossil fuels are gone, the better for the world”, is misguided and misses the fact that to create a positive…

A seismic facies library

Henk Kombrink
Seismic facies classification can be a tedious process, especially in an exploration context where large areas need to be as­sessed. In order to speed up that process, using a library…

Death by 0.9

Henk Kombrink
During an evening lec­ture organized by the Ge­oscience Energy Society of Great Britain (GESGB) in Aberdeen the other day, a discus­sion unfolded about how to risk play elements in a…

Less is more – uncertainty in rock properties

David Rajmon, Geosophix
My last article opened a topic of uncertainty in basin models. Dis­cussion following its publication brought up an interesting research paper describing how in­creasing model complexity increases uncertainty in its…

The gamification of the oil and gas industry

Henk Kombrink
“Imagine a world where labour is obsolete”, says Yu-kai Chou at the start of a TEDx Talk delivered for the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in 2014. “And I’m not…