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2016

Vol. 13, No. 2

This edition of GEO ExPro magazine focuses on Europe, New Technologies and Alternative Energy.

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Columns

5 Editorial

6 Market Update

8 Regional Update

10 A Minute to Read

34 GEO Tourism: Australia’s ‘Big Red’ Centre

46 GEO Profile: Ceri Powell – A Passionate Geologist

60 Recent Advances in Technology: Gravity for Hydrocarbon Exploration

64 Exploration Update

66 GEO Media: Groundbreakers

68 Q&A: Meeting Society’s Expectations

70 Global Resource Management

Features

16 Cover Story: Alternative Energy in Iceland – Harnessing the Earth

20 Exploration: Promising Portugal

24 Exploration: Unlocking Iran’s Potential

28 Seismic Foldout: Southern Central Graben, North Sea

38 Exploration: Petroleum Basins of Yemen

44 Industry Issues: Yemen – The Issues

50 Seismic Foldout: Offshore Somalia – East Africa’s Oil Frontier

56 Technology Explained: Identifying Oil in Tight Reservoirs

Articles

Offshore Somalia: East Africa’s Oil Frontier

Hannah Kearns, Jake Berryman, Neil Hodgson and Karyna Rodriguez, Spectrum

Peace is bringing hope, seismic exploration and evidence of exciting hydrocarbon-bearing structures offshore Somalia.

Promising Portugal

UPEP/ENMC

Good sediment thickness; multiple trapping mechanisms; excellent energy-hungry markets nearby; and large areas available for leasing: time to take a look at underexplored Portugal.

Unlocking the Petroleum Potential of Iran

Jan Witte and Dr. Olaf Schönicke Falcon Geoconsulting, Germany

GIS databases are a powerful tool for minimising exploration risk in Iranian hydrocarbon basins through geospatial analysis.

Executive Vice President of Exploration for Shell, Ceri Powell, talks to us about her life and career - and how it felt to be described (in Fortune Magazine) as the 21st most powerful woman in the world.

Market Update Europe

Western Europe: Production Up - Exploration Down

Espen Erlingsen, VP Analysis, Rystad Energy

Oil production in Western Europe increased for the first time this century.

Market Update Worldwide

What Chance a Production Freeze?

Thina Margrethe Saltvedt

Saudi Arabia and Russia increase pressure on Iran

Global Resource Management Worldwide

The Future is Shale

Halfdan Carstens

Shale oil and gas were considered rarities ten years ago. In the future these resources will constitute a sizable share of the market.

GEO Media Worldwide

Groundbreakers

Joe Green and Rasoul Sorkhabi, Ph.D.

A new book on the history of the upstream petroleum industry is itself a groundbreaker in a fascinating field.

Seismic Foldouts North West Europe

3D Broadband Seismic in the Southern Central Graben

Jens Beenfeldt and Simon Baer, PGS

Enabling an enhanced regional perspective and revealing new potential plays.

Recent Advances in Technology Worldwide

Gravity for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Guest Contributor: Christine Fichler; Column Editors: Martin Landrø and Lasse Amundsen

Can an unexplored sedimentary basin be unravelled by gravity? How can gravity in cross-disciplinary workflows estimate the base of salt domes and gas saturation in shallow sedimentary traps ? Read on!

GEO Tourism Australasia

Australia’s ‘Big Red’ Centre

Angus M. Robinson and Christine Edgoose, Geological Society of Australia

‘Big Red’ country, encapsulated in Australia’s first National Landscape - Australia’s Red Centre is now being recognised as a major draw for global travellers seeking outstanding geotourism experiences in the country.

Technology Explained Europe

Iceland. Harnessing the Earth.

Jane Whaley

Iceland is one of the pioneers in the use of geothermal energy, both for heating homes and generating electricity.

Q&A Worldwide

Meeting Society’s Expectations

Staff Writer

IPIECA is the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues. Executive Director Brian Sullivan tells us about its aims and its importance to the industry and the wider world.

Technology Explained North America

Identifying Potential Oil Zones in Tight Reservoirs

Thomas Smith

Low-cost epifluorescence microscope techniques have delineated a prospective, relatively untested oil-prone fairway in the Cane Creek shale play, Paradox Basin, Utah.

Editor's Patch Worldwide

Embracing Energy

Jane Whaley

What are the alternatives?

Exploration Asia

Exploration Update

Brought to you by GEO ExPro and Drillinginfo

News of recent discoveries in both China and Myanmar signals a bright start to exploration in 2016.

Exploration Middle East

Petroleum Basins of Yemen

Mustafa As-Saruri, Ph.D., and Rasoul Sorkhabi, Ph.D.

Yemen’s petroleum resource base will be a critical part of reconstruction efforts once peace is restored, but this will require high-resolution exploration and development in both onshore producing basins and offshore frontier areas in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.