Technical Content

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 ...

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 ...

Data science-based methods, such as supervised neural networks, provide powerful techniques to predict reservoir properties from seismic and well data without the aid of a theoretical model. In these supervised learning approaches, the seismic to rock property relationship is learned from the data. One ...

The Humbly Grove field is a unique example of an onshore UK field with two co-existing revenue streams; seasonal gas storage and enhanced oil recovery. As with other gas storage facilities, Humbly Grove operates under strict safety legislation. The license to operate is dependent ...

An article summarizing CGG's recent Multi-Client seismic acquisition in the West of Shetland. Article covers the exploration history, key petroleum systems, geological challenges for seismic imaging and interpretation and identification of exploration opportunities within the data.

This article is related new pyrolysis method developed by CGG. This new method is called “unconventional pyrolysis method” for bitumen-rich source rock samples from shale oil plays. This novel technique applies a different temperature program to the Rock-Eval pyrolysis 6 equipment, using the multi-heating ...

This article will mainly focus on the fracture/fault analysis of CGG’s multi-client 3D seismic data to highlight the potential flow pathways and contribution of excess formation water in unconventional lateral well development. By using CGG’s InsightEarth (FractureFaultSpark) software, major intra-formational and through-going formational faults ...