http://www.geoexpro.com/rss/Main_headlines.xmlThis newsfeed has been automatically generated by GEO Exproen-gb15 May 2012Copyright: (C) http://www.GEOExpro.comA landscape of harmony and peace, with scenery made for poetry and romance: the majestic karst landscape of the north-east Guangxi Zhuang Region in south-west China is one of nature’s true masterpieces.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Crowns_of_Nature_The_Majestic_Landscape_of_Guilin/628cec63.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Crowns_of_Nature_The_Majestic_Landscape_of_Guilin/628cec63.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Oil is the world’s most powerful political tool at the moment.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Oil_A_Political_Tool/caed41e2.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Oil_A_Political_Tool/caed41e2.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Discovered in the 1950s, North Dakota’s Bakken Formation oil production was just 1,500 bpd in 2004. Today, it exceeds 440,000 bpd and is expected to be 700,000 bpd within the next few years.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/From_Trickle_to_Gusher_The_Bakken_Oil_Story/631ec4cc.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/From_Trickle_to_Gusher_The_Bakken_Oil_Story/631ec4cc.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Second only to Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar, the supergiant Burgan field in Kuwait was discovered by a series of wells drilled during 1938-1952. Sitting on a huge structural anticline and occupying an area of 780 km2, the Cretaceous reservoirs of the Great Burgan field still account for most of Kuwait’s oil.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Great_Burgan_Field_Kuwait/e3fdc547.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Great_Burgan_Field_Kuwait/e3fdc547.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT New PSDM 3D seismic reflection data over the highly prolific Santos Basin provides comprehensive insight into, and enables a better understanding of, the evaporite architecture and potential pre-salt hydrocarbon reservoirs.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/New_Geological_Insights_Into_the_Santos_Basin/a2fa52f2.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/New_Geological_Insights_Into_the_Santos_Basin/a2fa52f2.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Is the workstation killing geology – or bringing it back to life and having a revolutionary effect on the field – and the future – of exploration and operational geology?http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Workstations_Promise_New_Life_for_Geology/68ccbde8.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Workstations_Promise_New_Life_for_Geology/68ccbde8.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Richard Swarbrick’s Ikon GeoPressure team in Durham predicts sub-surface pressures at regional and local scales, vital for the future pursuit of difficult hydrocarbons.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Working_Under_Pressure/248eb534.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Working_Under_Pressure/248eb534.aspxSun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT “We climbed for most of that day, conquering step by step the Morvarid Pass, only to drop down again, having reached the top; and as evening fell we came down on the lovely valley of Deh Diz, with its single sentinel poplar and a ruined castle in the distance, and the long ridge of the snowy Kuh-e Mangasht beyond. Our camping-place this time was in an orchard of pomegranates, beside a clear mountain stream, on a grassy terrace strewn with rocks and boulders.” Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days in Persia: Across the Mountains with Bakhtiari Tribe (1928)http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Zagros_Uplift/6011a2e4.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Zagros_Uplift/6011a2e4.aspxFri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT With the market for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) continuing to grow along with deepwater field expenditure (Douglas-Westwood forecasts global deepwater CAPEX of US$225 billion between 2011 and 2015), TGS company, Stingray Geophysical, is currently engaged in a collaborative programme which will enable its fibre-optic seismic sensing arrays to be permanently installed in depths of up to 3,000 metres.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Advances_in_Deepwater_Reservoir_Monitoring/b7825ebd.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Advances_in_Deepwater_Reservoir_Monitoring/b7825ebd.aspxTue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT The much-vaunted Arab Spring, which has brought new life to the Libyan oil industry, where production is reportedly already nearly back to pre-revolution volumes, is having a less satisfactory impression on the business elsewhere in the Middle East.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Force_Majeure_in_Syria/3efe856c.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Force_Majeure_in_Syria/3efe856c.aspxTue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT