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Florida Keys: Carbonate Classroom VOL. 15, NO. 6 – 2018 GEOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED geoexpro.com EXPLORATION A World Class Undrilled Basin GEOTOURISM Florida Keys: Carbonate Classroom EXPLORATION Gulf of Mexico Conjugate Margins RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT Rediscover Your Reservoir GEOCHEMISTRY Moves to the Wellsite Pioneering Acquisition Make Better Decisions with GeoStreamer Ultra HD3D in the Barents Sea xxxxxxxxxxxxxLTRA Triple Source xxxxxxxxxxxxxU xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxI D xxxxxxxxxxxxxG 3 + xxxxxxxxxxxxxH Y xxxxxxxxxxxxx DENSIT 56.25m Separation + 7km Streamers + Deep Tow ECIS PR E R O S E C I K T PROPER Hyperbolic Front for Near Offsets ELIABL R E V E S L L 10km for FWI at O E C D IT Y MO greater depths The challenge of imaging the shallow reservoirs of the Barents Sea is being solved with an innovative acquisition design. 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Explore the Barents Sea with confidence, find out more: [email protected] A Clearer Image | www.pgs.com/UHD3D Previous issues: www.geoexpro.com Contents Vol. 15 No. 6 This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on Frontier Exploration and the Gulf of GEOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED Mexico; Downhole Tools; and Increasing Efficiency in E&P. i 5 Editorial Never mind the temperature Liz Armstrong Liz 6 Regional Update – Bill Armstrong is having fun finding new high impact oil and gas fields. 8 Obituary: Munim Al-Rawi 10 A Minute to Read 14 Cover Story GEO Tourism: 200m p 1913 2013 2113 2213 2313 2413 2513 2613 2713 2813 2913 3013 3113 3213 3313 3413 3513 Oset (m) Carbonate Classroom Identification of potential hydrocarbon 3900 Top Source source rock horizons is the first step in Rock 18 GEO Profile: Bill Armstrong evaluating frontier basins. 3950 – Chasing Unicorns 4000 20 Exploration: Seismic Detection n of Source Rocks Exploration doesn’t come much more frontier than 24 Reservoir Management: Greenland’s undrilled Rediscover Your Reservoir Jameson Land Basin. 28 Seismic Foldout: Barents Sea 34 Technology Explained: The Custom Data Solution @ 36 Exploration: A Potentially Recent discoveries offshore Western Australia have caused World Class Undrilled Basin a change in thinking in this underexplored region. 40 Hot Spot: Developments in Middle East Exploration 42 Exploration: Confronting the Elephant Geolog ^ 46 GEO Chemistry: Geochemistry Bringing mudlogging and reservoir Moves to the Wellsite chemistry together at the wellsite has major efficiency gains. 50 Seismic Foldout: A Fresh Look at Cuba and Madagascar 56 Exploration: Gulf of Mexico Conjugate Margins Revealed i k 60 Recent Advances in Technology: n 0 Finite Difference Modelling III H 64 GEO Media: q Energy and Climate Change r Y ) / H 66 Exploration Update Y 5 68 Q&A: Allen Gilmer – What Does the F uture Hold? ) @ p w 70 Global Resource Management GEOExPro December 2018 3 neuralog.com Moving Forward NeuraSection’s evolutionary touch Experience the newest features in NeuraSection. 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GEOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED Jane Whaley geoexpro.com GEOTOURISM EXPLORATION Cover Photograph: Editor in Chief Florida Keys: A World Class Undrilled Basin Carbonate Main Image: Classroom © Sandi Cullifer/Dreamstime.com Inset: Tore Karlsson Layout: Winslade Graphics Print: Stephens & George, UK FLORIDA KEYS: CARBONATE CLASSROOM EXPLORATION Gulf of Mexico A Little Blue Heron stands in a tangle of mangrove roots in a Florida Conjugate Margins issn 1744-8743 lagoon. Just one of the many fascinating sights on a trip through the RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT Rediscover Your Reservoir Florida Keys, where you can also learn a lot about carbonate rock GEOCHEMISTRY formation and diagenesis. Moves to the Wellsite NeuraSection’s evolutionary touch Inset: Greenland: the Jameson Land Basin is one of the last remaining undrilled Atlantic Margin basins. Experience the newest features in NeuraSection. 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