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From exploration trends to the future of financing, global frontier plays to the future of stratigraphic plays, you'll find a lineup of topics that cover the issues most relevant to the global A&D community at APPEX London. This year's event, 2-4 March 2010 at the Business Design Centre, also highlights Asia and the Far East, the Caribbean and South America, Europe and Africa. You'll also find two exciting new short courses: Lessons Learned and to be Learned from Unsuccessful Drilling and Petroleum Geology for Financial Professionals. Make plans today to participate as a sponsor, exhibitor or attendee. Read more.. Rich Petroleum Source RocksAn inventory of petroleum source rocks in the world’s major sedimentary basins show that six intervals in the Earth's Phanerozoic history provided organic-rich sediments generating over 90% of world's conventional oil and gas discovered so far. Here we explore this issue. 09.12.2009
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 Deep-Reading TechnologiesDeep-reading technologies image the interwell space at higher resolution and provide a new scale of characterization that was previously not possible. 09.12.2009
read more.. |  Rotunda Geology MuseumInspiring and educating future geoscientists is vital to ensure that innovation in Earth science can continue. The Rotunda Museum in Scarborough in the UK, as well as being the world's first purpose-built geology museum, emphasizes geoscience learning with interactive exhibits and 'hands-on' events. 11.12.2009
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There is now growing industry excitement in anticipation of the forthcoming Gabonese Licensing Round. The Round is increasingly being hailed as one of the best opportunities in many years to participate in a prospective, but as yet underexplored region.
This article discusses the linkage between 4D seismic responses and geomechanics. Exploitation of this relationship has helped reduce development costs and maximize recovery from the compacting Valhall reservoir.
The first of the Geocontroversies debates held at the Petroleum Geology Conference in London earlier this year brought up some interesting arguments and ideas around the concept of ‘Peak Oil’.
A permanent 4D system for reservoir monitoring has been established in less than three years. The investment is based on market research predicting a huge increase in permanent systems throughout the world.
Although geologists working in the industry have access to tremendous subsurface data, relatively few of the data become public domain, says Dr. John Lorenz, President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Christian Höcker spent over twenty years with European super giant Shell, where he witnessed many changes, before moving to a completely different working environment in small start-up company JOA Oil and Gas.
The existence of a source rock is a prerequisite for finding oil and gas. Without a source, the prospect, the play or the basin is bound to be “dry”. An understanding of both source rock distribution and maturation history is therefore key objectives for petroleum explorationists.
The Valhall permanent seismic array (Life of Field Seismic; LoFS) has successfully provided easy access to high quality 4D images for the purpose of improving oil recovery.
Large-scale volcanism caused by a superplume in the mantle was possibly responsible for wide-spread deposition of excellent source rocks in Mid-Cretaceous times.
Renowned North Sea geologist Richard Hardman looks back at the 1975 discovery of the billion barrel Valhall Field.
4D geophysics, in particular 4D seismic, has come of age. Repeated surveys with or without permanent receivers are now increasingly being used in monitoring production. This applies in particular to clastic reservoirs, meaning that one of the future challenges will be to make the technology also work for carbonates. Professor Dr. Martin Landrø now takes our questions.
Building on ongoing IOR research efforts, StatoilHydro aims to be a leading company in quantitative integration of 4D data in reservoir modelling in order to meet challenges in the most complex reservoirs.
Recent news of at least three dry wells and suspension of the Tupi extended well test illustrate some of the challenges facing the pre-salt play that Brazil's government has touted as having "no exploration risk." However, with the huge reserves already discovered, the frontier area remains a hot play.
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