Seismic Foldouts Africa
Offshore Somalia: East Africa’s Oil Frontier
Peace is bringing hope, seismic exploration and evidence of exciting hydrocarbon-bearing structures offshore Somalia.
Vol. 13, No. 2
This edition of GEO ExPro magazine focuses on Europe, New Technologies and Alternative Energy.
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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
Country Profile Europe
Promising Portugal
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.
Exploration Middle East
Unlocking the Petroleum Potential of Iran
GIS databases are a powerful tool for minimising exploration risk in Iranian hydrocarbon basins through geospatial analysis.
GEO Profile Worldwide
A Passionate Geologist
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
Oil production in Western Europe increased for the first time this century.
Market Update Worldwide
What Chance a Production Freeze?
Saudi Arabia and Russia increase pressure on Iran
Global Resource Management Worldwide
The Future is Shale
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
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
Enabling an enhanced regional perspective and revealing new potential plays.
Recent Advances in Technology Worldwide
Gravity for Hydrocarbon Exploration
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
‘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.
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
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
Low-cost epifluorescence microscope techniques have delineated a prospective, relatively untested oil-prone fairway in the Cane Creek shale play, Paradox Basin, Utah.
Exploration Asia
Exploration Update
News of recent discoveries in both China and Myanmar signals a bright start to exploration in 2016.
Exploration Middle East
Petroleum Basins of Yemen
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.
Industry Issues Middle East
Yemen: The Issues
Yemen has plenty of potential – but the country’s war has significance far beyond its boundaries.
