How can oil and gas fields extend their productive lives and are there opportunities to repurpose our fields, our facilities and ourselves?

The transition to sustainable energy is one of the fundamental challenges we face over the coming decades and it is my intention that GEO ExPro will continue to report fully on this, whilst championing the genuinely critical role the oil and gas business plays in ensuring security of energy supply.

Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 1 is available for download. This issue of GEO ExPro focuses on Australasia and South East Asia; Reservoir Management; Geoscience, Sustainability and the Environment.

In this article, we revisit unique radiocarbon data from the 90s and discuss briefly why this is of importance to our understanding of how CO₂ is circulating between the atmosphere, biosphere, and the oceans.

Skydive with us into the quantum world, where we provide to those unafraid of molecular energy transfer an answer to the question: what happens to Earth’s radiated infrared (IR) photons after they are absorbed by IR active CO₂ molecules in the lower atmosphere?

How do we release the full potential of university–industry collaboration in creating relevant innovations in petroleum and geoscience?

Put aside the financials for a moment and consider: what makes a good or a bad company?

The Wilson Cycle describes the opening and closing of oceanic basins as a result of plate movements. It provides a scientific framework to follow the creation, development and destruction of sedimentary basins and how these processes impact on petroleum plays.

What can we learn from the world’s best petroleum basins – and what can we bring from them to the areas we explore?

Benefits of seismic forward modelling: mitigating risk is always a focus within the oil and gas industry but it becomes even more crucial in these times, with an ongoing pandemic and ensuing low oil price.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its annual World Energy Outlook, which provides a comprehensive view of how the global energy system could develop in the coming decades.

As the effects of the pandemic deepen, many companies within oil and gas are reluctant to replace face-to-face courses with online learning, fearing the interactivity of the learning experience would be compromised.

2D and 3D seismic data are major sources of information in the oil and gas industry, as well as for geothermal energy activities, carbon sequestration in geological reservoirs and offshore wind energy. In this short article we will cover the basics of seismic horizon interpretation and how this is used to obtain stratigraphic information.

In search of a silver lining.

Many may argue about the best use for Artificial Intelligence: is it in the exploration or the development of oil and gas resources? This article illustrates with case studies that AI sits comfortably in both, and forms a bridge between the two, allowing interpretation continuity.