Covid-19 is having an huge impact across many industries, including the oil, gas and energy sector – but are there any positives to the situation?

The evolving role of seismic reflection data within offshore site investigation.

A brief summary of oil and gas licensing rounds affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, that were announced by date of writing (April 2020).

Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 17, No. 2 is available for download. This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on North America and the Gulf of Mexico; New Technologies; Near Surface Geophysics; and Changing Public Perceptions.

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in some welcome shows of solidarity, as countries help each other out with medical assistance, urgent supplies and, importantly, research into vaccines and cures, and it will undoubtedly have some positive long-term effects on the environment.

Pre-stack projects, completed in the cloud, are a highly beneficial, cost efficient and timely licence work programme activity, especially when other budgets items are postponed.

Subsurface interpretation using AI is here and being used on live projects. It is delivering clear improvements in subsurface understanding at a time when it has never been more important to make the correct decision to drill or to drop.

The Global and European Calculators are tools that can be used for both exploring the future of our climate and working out what can be done about it, helping us better understand climate complexities.

We continue the discussion of the simple greenhouse model introduced in Part III.

Is it time for the world’s most influential oil players – OPEC, North America and Russia – to engage and take collective leadership and responsibility? 2020 has already demonstrated that stabilizing oil markets has passed the politics of finger pointing and blaming each other.

Coupling deep learning methods with dynamic reservoir models can result in tremendous time saving and more reliable production forecasts in oil and gas production.

Before widescale adoption of artificial intelligence across the subsurface arena, there is still one outstanding question; can it be trusted?

Obituary: Professor Ken Glennie was a legend in a number of fields, from the petroleum geology of the North Sea to modern and ancient desert environments, particularly in the Middle East.

According to Bernard Duval, geologists are the happiest people around because “we have fun!” He tells us about his long and illustrious career in oil and gas exploration, for which he was awarded the AAPG Distinguished Achievement Award in 1995.

Machine learning in oil and gas exploration and production has successfully begun to scale up from pilots to specific and bespoke industrial solutions – but must remain grounded in the real world.