Seismic boom-time
WesternGeco, along with a whole range of other seismic companies, is taking advantage of a dynamic marketplace. We have talked to Dalton Boutte, president of WesternGeco, about current and future…
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4D Seismic – Status and Future Challenges Part I: Status
Time-lapse seismic is now a proven technology for monitoring fluid movements and identifying undrained compartments in thick offshore clastic reservoirs. Several challenges still exist, however, in particular the use of…
Exorcising the Ghosts – The New Streamer Technology Launched by PGS
PGS claims to have built a marine seismic streamer that is capable of removing receiver ghosts, thereby enhancing frequency bandwidth and seismic resolution. If proven by full-scale field tests, this…
Cable-free Freedom
Cable-free hardware is not new but there is something new in cable-free! Ascend Geo have shown that cable-free technology can revolutionise land seismic acquisition. Cable-free Freedom
It May Happen Again
Because I have been around a few years longer than some of the financial advisors I happen to meet, I can easily remember when the oil price went below USD…
Dr. Thomas A. Smith
“We never inspired to create a dominate PC-based software and never dreamed it would get this big.” Dr. Thomas A. Smith founded a company that has a profound influence on…
Real Time Formation Evaluation
A team from Aberdeen University have developed a method of generating simulated wireline logs with the potential to produce real-time wellsite data, reducing costs and supplementing conventional data.
How to Find More Oil
Reserve growth, the increase in successive estimates of recoverable hydrocarbons in existing fields, adds more oil to conventional reserves than new field discoveries. Large fields in mature petroleum provinces, it…
Improving Structural Imaging
Reprocessing of several seismic data sets acquired offshore Norway in the 1980’s have demonstrated significant improvements in both resolution and structural imaging. The improvements were gained mainly through more accurate…
The Azolla Story: Climate Change and Arctic Hydrocarbons
Could a single plant species have really changed the Earth from a greenhouse world towards the modern icehouse state – and what are the implications of this for both petroleum…
Connecting the Geologist to the Digital Oilfield
In today’s digital oilfield, bringing geologists into the workflow with geophysicists and reservoir engineers is vital to maximise the potential of every well Connecting the Geologist to the digital Oilfield
Targeting Deeper
While seismic is still seismic, Controlled Source electroMagnetic (CSeM) diversifies into several types of competing technologies. Targeting Deeper