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BP shores up gas reserves West Papua, Indonesia

BP reportedly made a significant new offshore gas discovery in the large West Papua Berau PSC, Indonesia, with the Kepe-Kepe-1 sidetrack, according to oil and gas regulator SKK Migas. The…

This is the time of subsurface by-products

Speaking to an Aberdeen audience about 10 years ago, Jon Gluyas argued that the North Sea oil business was in essence a water industry. Looking at volumes of produced water…

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The Big Buzz of Buzzard II

Four 3D seismic surveys comprising the “Big Buzz” dataset. Buzzard II: the sequel How about looking for another Buzzard field, next to the one that was found over 20 years…

Santos Basin, Brazil: Understanding the CO₂ exploration risk with ultra-deep seismic

Location of pre-salt blocks in the Santos Basin, the Nebula-C polygon and exploration well results. Santos Basin: New seismic data helps de-risk CO₂ contamination for pre-salt exploration CGG’s latest imaging technology…

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Advancing Ocean Bottom Node surveys through autonomy

In hydrocarbon exploration, innovation is essential for improving efficiency and sustainability, particularly in node operations. By incorporating Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) and utilizing the latest machine learning advancements, ocean bottom…

Geothermal

Monitoring a geothermal motor

Following the drilling of successful exploration wells into the Kenyan Rift Valley in the 1970’s, the flagship Olkaria geothermal field has seen a steady development to a capacity of around…

Deep Sea Minerals

What moves a grain?

Plume dispersion is not solely a matter of distance from the mine site, physical processeses are also important”, said Thomas Peacock, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the…

Norway is getting a new marine industry

The governing parties, the Labour Party and the Center Party, together with the Conservative Party and the Progressive Party, have secured a majority in parliament on the opening of mineral operations…

Subsurface Storage

The race for pressure space

Another pressure plot without values on the Y-axis! That’s what I thought when watching Eirik Jenssen’s presentation at the Dig X Conference in Oslo yesterday. Eirik works as a Reservoir…

A room full of the best intentions

London, Thursday 14 December, GESGB CCS Symposium. I must admit that I’m getting a bit tired of the ongoing CO2 storage discussions. Why? Because I feel that we keep on…

Technology

A dissolvable tool

Andrew Garioch from Well-SENSE talks us through the use of fibre-optic technology for well intervention work

Shaking up the Earth: The AI revolution in seismic interpretation

AI’s transformative role in seismic interpretation is not merely illuminating the subsurface; it’s fast-tracking one of the energy industry’s most business-critical phases. The interpretation of seismic data requires a comprehensive…

Geology

Bouma and Tybalt

The Bouma sequence, proposed by Arnold Bouma, has been a cornerstone in the interpretation of turbidites and high-density sediment currents since its publication in 1962. The Bouma sequence is a…

Can a seal fail?

A seal is a rock that has a higher capillary entry pressure relative to other adjacent rocks. The higher the contrast, the greater the hydrocarbon column it can hold. The…

Don’t forget to look deeper

As oil and gas geoscientists, we often focus on the reservoir we are targeting. Seldom do we consider what might be happening deeper, especially in basement rocks. However, what happens…

Geophysics

Seismic velocity – A strong identifier of gas prospects

P-wave velocity (Vp) is an essential parameter for constructing seismic velocity models for geophysical exploration data, and porosity is the single most important factor affecting it, along with the type of…

Did you know that rocks have memory?

The seismic signature of a sedimentary rock is strongly influenced by the geological history of the rock, e.g., the depositional environment, whether it has experienced tectonic burial and uplift, etc.…

Seeing the whole picture

During the pandemic, Lyme Bay Consulting took the opportunity to download all the Operator-released 3D seismic data in the UKCS to produce a series of Post-Stack Merged Seismic Volumes covering…

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A tent and a rig

Looking out of the plane window when approaching Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s oil capital, the darkness of the desert is interrupted by star-shaped lights in places. I wondered what they were…

A can-do mentality required

“It’s funny, says Iain Brown, “I had been an avid reader of the magazine for years when I was asked to take over the editor position from Jane Whaley, but…

Portraits

Embracing change

“My parents approached my upbringing in different ways”, says Hayet when we met up on Teams to do the first part of this interview. “My father, an accountant, is curious…

Tractors and Technology

“Remember, oil is a product of nature”, says César Patiño when we meet on Teams in April. In his role as a delegate for the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration…

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Advancing Ocean Bottom Node surveys through autonomy

In hydrocarbon exploration, innovation is essential for improving efficiency and sustainability, particularly in node operations. By incorporating Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) and utilizing the latest machine learning advancements, ocean bottom…

Shifts in the seismic acquisition space

“In the past, we as a provider of OBN and streamer technology would mostly liaise with seismic acquisition companies; our exposure to oil companies was very limited,” says Gaetan Mellier,…

Paleogeography and business

“The production of paleogeographic maps is an economically useful exercise for consultancy companies such as ours”, says Andy Horbury from Cambridge Carbonates. His company has been involved in constructing, editing,…

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