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The North West Shelf of Australia is a prolific hydrocarbon province hosting significant volumes of hydrocarbons, primarily derived from Jurassic and Cretaceous targets. A new regional, integrated geoscience study has been undertaken by CGG to develop new insights into the paleogeography and petroleum systems ...

Exploration in the Northern North Sea has been extremely successful, with important discoveries such as Statfjord in 1974, and Oseberg, Snorre, Gullfaks and Troll, discovered in 1979. More recently, several smaller but still very valuable discoveries have been made, demonstrating the remaining potential of ...

A 24-well pad is auto-planned and shows the Separation Rule anti-collision display computed for all wells all at once. The color controls represent three collision risk categories: green = minimum risk, yellow = medium risk and red = stop drilling, maximum risk zones. (Source ...

HOUSTON–Cuttings are a valuable and cost-effective source of subsurface data from both vertical and lateral wells that is commonly overlooked in oil and gas exploration and development drilling. Advancements in analytical technologies have enhanced the data extraction from cuttings to provide key subsurface insights ...

Evaluate Petroleum Systems to Identify New Exploration Opportunities

Over the past 35 years, geothermal projects have been developed in the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) to exploit deep geothermal energy. Underneath approximately 2 km of sedimentary deposits, the deep target consists of a granitic basement, which is highly fractured and hydrothermally altered. Therefore ...

The complex Central North Sea overburden, featuring shallow channels, contourites and injectites, presents a challenge for velocity modeling and often leads to distortions and difficulties in accurate depth placement of deeper targets.

Complex salt tectonics presents a key geological challenge in the Central North Sea. Salt flank and subsalt imaging has historically been a problem when evaluating complex stratigraphic traps.

Understanding reservoir quality and distribution is key to unlocking the remaining Paleogene potential in the Central North Sea.