Striving For Excellence
After an impressive career in research institutes in the USA, Canada and France, Dr. John Ludden has now taken on the challenging role of Executive Director of the British Geological…
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Relationship Building is the Key to Success
Iman Hill has risen through the ranks from petroleum engineer to senior management roles with Shell and BG. She talks to GeoExpro about the skills needed to thrive in the…
Rock and Roll and all that … Seismic!
Hank Hamilton is doing a job he loves,helping steadily grow the successful seismic company, TGS-NOPEC. And he still has time for the occasional outing as bass player with the TGS…
“We are both very stubborn”
Only some eight years after the idea stroke on a flight out of Houston, two innovative physicists can claim that seabed logging has been fully accepted by the conservative oil…
Serving both academe and the industry
He is known throughout the oil industry as an exceptional petroleum geologist and to his many university and professional students as an outstanding and inspirational teacher. Few people are as…
The Golden Zone: It’s the Temperature that Counts
An empirically verified theory provides petroleum geologists with a tool to make it easier to explore oil and gas. The idea behind “The Golden Zone”, which includes 90% of the…
Much Ado About Nothing?
Has integrated 3D reservoir modeling really changed the way we work, or has it been just “much ado about nothing”? Much Ado About Nothing
Bridging the Gap between Reservoir and Seismic
New modelling package SeisRoX uses rapid simulation of PSDM to aid seismic reservoir characterisation and monitoring. Bridging the Gap between Reservoir and Seismic
New dimensions in an old game
There seems to be a general pattern for the introduction of new technologies in our industry. At an early stage, you need to convince management why it makes sense to…
Providing Real Time Solutions
Logging While Drilling (LWD) is increasingly gaining popularity, with customers starting to look at drilling and evaluation services with a value-based, rather than a pure cost-based approach. GEo ExPro talked…
Eastern Europe Competes with Down Under
Licensing Opportunity Hungary Hungary has invited bids from both foreign and domestic companies for seven new exploration licences, four for hydrocarbons in southeastern Hungary near existing fields and three for geothermal exploration in…