Technology Explained The Arctic
The Next Global Frontier
The Arctic is the next, and maybe the most challenging, global frontier – but how can it be effectively explored with only a two-month ice-free season?
Vol. 7, No. 6
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5 Editorial
6 ExPro Update
12 Market Update
16 A Minute to Read
42 History of Oil: Exploration in Alaska
46 ExPro Profile: Jim Thompson, Fairfield
62 Recent Advances in Technology: Marine Seismic Sources V
66 GeoTourism: The Deccan Traps
72 Geomedia
74 Exploration Update
76 Q&A
78 Hot Spot: Barmer Basin, NW India
80 Global Resource Management
Features
20 Cover Story: The Next Global Frontier
24 Alternative Technology: Mining Heat
30 Frontier Exploration: Bay of Bengal - Many Possibilities and Challenges Ahead
36 SEISMIC FOLDOUT: NE Greenland Continental Margin
48 Technology: Grabbing a Larger Share of the Market
52 Exploration: Buried Treasure in Jamaica
58 Unconventional Resources: Is the ‘Shale Gale’ blowing Itself Out?
Articles
Technology Explained Worldwide
Is the ‘Shale Gale’ blowing itself out?
Are low gas prices and environmental issues taking the wind out of the ‘Shale Gale’?
Recent Advances in Technology Worldwide
Marine Seismic Sources Part V: The Hearing Of Marine Mammals
Editorials The Arctic
This Year’s Frontier
The Arctic and the Bay of Bengal are two exciting but very different frontier areas, both suggesting great potential, but offering many challenges to the hydrocarbon industry.
GEO History North America
A Long and Winding Road
The North Slope of Alaska is a cornerstone of US oil production with several giant fields, notably Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk and Endicott, plus extensive heavy oil at Ugnu and West Sak. The generation that discovered these fields is almost gone; what can we learn from their efforts?
GEO Profile Worldwide
Meeting Operational Challenges
Jim Thompson wandered into the oil industry after ‘meeting a guy in a bar’. That chance meeting has led to a rewarding career in the seismic business, progressing from doodle-bugging to heading up operations for Fairfield Nodal.
GEO Tourism Asia
History Carved Out of the Deccan Traps
Ancient cave temples carved out of the Deccan basalts are some of the best places to view both the world-renowned Deccan Traps and the Indian mythology narrated on these rocks.
Technology Explained Europe
Mining Heat
Since the time of the Romans, Cornwall, in the extreme southwest of the UK, has been known for mining minerals, especially tin. Could the future of this region be in mining heat?
Seismic Foldouts North America
The NE Greenland Continental Margin
Recently completed regional 2D seismic reconnaissance data adds new insights on the hydrocarbon potential of this challenging unexplored frontier area.
Technology Explained Worldwide
Grabbing a Larger Share of the Market
It’s time consuming. It’s expensive. But when it comes to accuracy and quality, it’s surpassed by no other technology, the innovator claims.
Exploration North America
Buried Treasure in Jamaica
The beautiful Caribbean Island of Jamaica was home to pirates and their loot in the past, but is there treasure of a different sort in its sparkling waters? Data collated for a new bid round, due to close in March 2011, suggests that there may well be.
Exploration Asia
Bay of Bengal
Flanked by the young, growing and energy hungry populations of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Bay of Bengal finds itself an increasingly hot property in the search to discover new hydrocarbon reserves.
