http://www.geoexpro.com/rss/Editorials_headlines.xmlThis newsfeed has been automatically generated by GEO Exproen-gb09 Apr 2012Copyright: (C) http://www.GEOExpro.comThe Middle east has been a cornerstone of the oil and gas industry for over a hundred years.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/All_Eyes_on_the_Middle_East/5f6f225c.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/All_Eyes_on_the_Middle_East/5f6f225c.aspxMon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Shale gas has been a game changer for the energy industry in the United States – but things look a bit different in Europe. http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Time_for_a_Little_Education/5dc46bf6.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Time_for_a_Little_Education/5dc46bf6.aspxSun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT The oil industry is full of surprises. One of the biggest this year has been the discovery of a giant field, not in a new frontier, but in that well-worn old area – the Norwegian North Sea. http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Surprise_A_Giant_New_Field/22e19796.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Surprise_A_Giant_New_Field/22e19796.aspxSat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT As this edition of GEO ExPro magazine bears out, some of the most exciting areas in the oil and gas industry at the moment are in Africa; and not the traditionally ‘oily’ places, like the Niger Delta, equatorial West Africa or the Libyan Desert, but previously disregarded regions like the West African transform margin, presalt Angola and the east African Rift Valley – the latter featuring on our dramatic front cover. http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Learning_from_the_Past/f734f5f0.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Learning_from_the_Past/f734f5f0.aspxMon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT “This is a historic day. We have reached a breakthrough in the most important outstanding issue between Norway and the Russian Federation,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg prior to the signing of an agreement between the Norwegian and the Russian negotiating delegations on the bilateral maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Agreement_in_the_Barents_Sea/9a69bcb9.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Agreement_in_the_Barents_Sea/9a69bcb9.aspxThu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT A total of 45 production licenses were just recently awarded in mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf. The companies have been offered participating interests in 73 blocks or parts of blocks, and 26 companies – including a few of the supermajors – have in this way expanded their acreage portifolio in the North Sea and on the Halten Terrace in the Norwegian Sea.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Incredibly_Cheap/7498eebc.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Incredibly_Cheap/7498eebc.aspxThu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Most of us would bluntly say that geology has nothing to do with politics. We tend to believe that geological research is independent of political constraints.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Rejected/66ebc478.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Rejected/66ebc478.aspxThu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Read this carefully (adapted from ’BP Statistical Review of World Energy’): "Proven reserves is the estimated quantities of oil which geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under current economic and operating conditions."http://www.geoexpro.com/article/How_much_oil/5bb33389.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/How_much_oil/5bb33389.aspxThu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT While hydrocarbon resources are said to be scarce nowadays, it is comforting to know that there are still many unexplored geological provinces around the world. In fact, it is sometimes necessary to point out that frontier exploration acreage does still exist.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Multiclient_Seismic_Data/1177bc88.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Multiclient_Seismic_Data/1177bc88.aspxThu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT As we have now entered the International Polar Year (see also page 72), we should expect a strong focus on the development of fossil fuels in northern latitudes for the years to come.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Next_Frontier/a9c971bc.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Next_Frontier/a9c971bc.aspxWed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT