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In late April it became known that Norway and Russia had agreed upon a common marine border in the Barents Sea. An area equivalent in size to the North Sea fairway was made available overnight. Fugro Multi Client Services has an extensive data base and good geological knowledge covering both sectors of the Barents Sea and Idar Horstad, General Manager, volunteered to share his thoughts about the prospectivity of this huge area.
Dr. Scott Tinker travels the world extensively, speaking on his favorite subjects; global energy, the environment, the economy and education. Now, he is making a feature length documentary on global energy with the working title “The Bridge” and was kind enough to give us a sneak preview.
Peak oil will happen, eventually, but possibly not before the 2030s. In the meantime, we may be faced with oversupply, partly driven by increased production in Iraq.
Although geologists working in the industry have access to tremendous subsurface data, relatively few of the data become public domain, says Dr. John Lorenz, President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
4D geophysics, in particular 4D seismic, has come of age. Repeated surveys with or without permanent receivers are now increasingly being used in monitoring production. This applies in particular to clastic reservoirs, meaning that one of the future challenges will be to make the technology also work for carbonates. Professor Dr. Martin Landrø now takes our questions.
A significant number of discoveries have been made on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) for the last two years. Even more important, the trend is towards making bigger finds. Since the merger between Statoil and Norsk Hydro exactly two years ago (October 1, 2007), StatoilHydro's international and Norwegian exploration efforts have proven more new resources than what has been produced.
There has been a lot of talk in recent months about the future of the oil and gas industry in the North Sea. Here Jim Hannon, director of oil and gas intelligence consultancy, Hannon Westwood and a world renowned expert on the topic, gives us his view.
Offshore Electromagnetic surveying, CSEM, was commercialized in 2002 as a new exploration technology for finding hydrocarbons. Following some seven years of trial and failure, we have asked one of the early users of the technology to elaborate on his views of the value and future of this innovative tool.
Dr. Bernie Vining, Regional Director for consultants Gaffney, Cline & Associates, is Chairman of the Technical Committee for the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference. He talked to GeoExPro about the Conference and the issues to be discussed
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in Norway has recently received 93 applications for acreage on the Norwegian continental shelf. We have talked to Sissel Eriksen of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate about the future exploration offshore Norway.
Sverre Strandenes of PGS recently gave his view of the geophysical industry at an AAPG international conference in Oslo, Norway. We used this opportunity to ask him about the past, present and future of geophysical technology.
Dr. Leo Roodhart, the 2009 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), hopes to enthuse a younger generation of oil industry experts by encouraging membership and active participation in the society throughout the world.
Dr. Moujahed Al-Husseini is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Middle East Petroleum Geosciences, GeoArabia, and for many years was involved with the organisation of the important GEOEO oil industry conference, held every two years in Bahrain.
To address the current shortage of educated and trained geologists, geophysicists and engineers, AAPG President and independent geologist, Willard Green sees the need to get students interested in the sciences at a young age and foster programs throughout
the education experience.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), responsible for resource management
on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, has a new boss who is also a geologist by
profession. We talked to Director General Bente Nyland about the future of this huge
geological province.
WesternGeco, along with a whole range of other seismic companies, is taking advantage of
a dynamic marketplace. We have talked to Dalton Boutte, president of WesternGeco, about
currentand
future trends in the geophysical industry.
Logging While Drilling (LWD) is increasingly gaining popularity, with customers starting to look
at drilling and evaluation services with a value-based, rather than a pure cost-based approach.
GEO ExPro talked to Trond Gravem in Baker Hughes INTEQ in Stavanger, Norway, about the status
and future of LWD.
A true innovator in the field of geophysics, the 2007-2008 president of the Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Dr. Fred Aminzadeh sees the advances in geophysics going far beyond the current
applications of finding and exploiting hydrocarbons.
Both the UK and the Norwegian sector of the North Sea have reached maturity, meaning that most future discoveries will probably be in the small to medium range (i.e. <100 MMboe) and that small, independent oil companies will increase their share of acreage acquisition and drilling.
Having done resource assessments since 1975 when he joined the United States Geological
Survey, Kenneth Bird has a superiorknowledge
of the process and realities presented in these
reports. We ask him about the methodology and what the numbers actually mean.
Tim Dodson is exploration manager for Statoil in on the Norwegian Contintental shelf. We talk to him about the
company’sassets offshore Norway and the rest of the world.
In his role as President of PESGB, Chris Flavell is a co-organiser of PETEX 2006, the Society’s biannual Conference and Exhibition, in November. We talk to him about the role of the PESGB in the UK oil industry.
Dr. Raymond Levey is in charge of an organisation with superb knowledge of the world’s sedimentary basins, fossil energy and alternative energy sources.We have talked with him about the future of oil and gas exploration.
Dr. Lee T. Billingsley is presently President-Elect, and from July 1 he will be President of AAPG for one year.We have talked with Dr. Billingsley about his views on the petroleum industry and his visions for AAPG, an organisation that "gives a possibility to give back".
Dr. Gareth Williams is President of EAGE.We have talked with him about the organisation he has been serving for many years as well as the future of the oil and gas industry.
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