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Libya: GEO Cities: the Next Chapter the Making of Modern Dubai VOL. 8, NO. 6 – 2011 GEOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED geoexpro.com COUNTRY PROFILE Libya: GEO Cities: The Next Chapter The Making of Modern Dubai GEOPHYSICS Emphasizing Vibrations GEOTOURISM The Wonders of Yellowstone GEOLOGY GEOPHYSICS RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT Previous issues: www.geoexpro.com 42 GEOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED CONTENTS This edition of GEO ExPro Magazine focuses on Can crabs hear seismic sources? North and South America and Frontier Exploration COLUMNS FEATURES 5 Editorial 26 Country Profile: Libya – The Next Chapter 6 Market Update 30 Exploration: Persia, Land of Black Gold 8 Update 36 Seismic Foldout 1 : Western Florida 16 A Minute to Read 54 Exploration: Tobago Trough – 20 Cover Story: Brief Biography of a Biogenic Gas Play GEO Tourism: The Wonders of Yellowstone 58 Seismic foldout 2: South West Barents Sea 42 Recent Advances: Effect of Seismic on Crabs 64 Exploration: Namibia: Promising Giant New 46 GEO Profile: Marlan Downey Hydrocarbon Frontier 50 History of Oil: 70 Geophysics: Emphasizing Vibrations Early Textbooks of Petroleum Geology 74 Exploration: SE Asia – Where are the Giants Hiding? 84 GEO Cities: Dubai – From Pirates to Prada 78 GEO Conservation: Does Geology Last Forever? 86 Exploration Update 82 Exploration: Transiting the Northern Sea Route 88 GEO Media: The Power That Be 90 Q&A: The Oil Detectives 30 Iran holds 10% of the world’s proven 92 Hot Spot: Colombia Rediscovered oil reserves of oil and 16% of the gas 94 Global Resource Management – and it started here, at the Masjid Sulaiman oil field. 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GeoPublishing Ltd Drilling by Cuadrilla Resources at a shale 15 Palace Place Mansion gas well in the north-west of England Kensington Court was stopped when minor earth tremors London W8 5BB, U.K. +44 20 7937 2224 were felt, and an independent report concluded that pressure changes due Managing Director to water injection during the fraccing Tore Karlsson process were to blame. One good thing to come out of this is that the average Editor in Chief person in the UK, at least, is now a lot Jane Whaley more knowledgeable about the process – [email protected] but also a lot more concerned. Headlines Resources Cuadrilla Contributing Editors in the newspapers such as ‘we caused Cuadrilla rig at Preese Hall near Blackpool, north-west England, Thomas Smith 50 tremors in Blackpool – but we’re not where drilling is believed to have caused minor earth tremors. [email protected] going to stop’ do not really help the industry. 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The YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Next Chapter GEO Cities: We encourage readers to alert us The Making of Modern Dubai At morning’s first light, views across steam rising from the West Thumb to news for possible publication Geyser Basin located on the west shore of Yellowstone Lake can take you and to submit articles for back to when the earth was in a more primordial state. “The Wonders publication. of Yellowstone” in this issue will introduce the reader to the world’s first national park, which started a new trend in protecting special places for Cover Illustrations: future generations. Cover picture: Thomas Smith GEOPHYSICS Emphasizing Vibrations Inset: Phil Magor Inset: From Pirates to Prada: As the United Arab Emirates celebrates its 40th GEOTOURISM The Wonders of Yellowstone anniversary, we take a look at the making of the modern Dubai. Layout: Bookcraft Ltd. GEOLOGY GEOPHYSICS Print: NXT Oslo Reklamebyrå RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT issn 1744-8743 © 2011 GeoPublishing Limited. 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GEO ExPro DECEMBER 2011 5 MARKET UPDATE Paradigm Shift for Quaternary US Oil Production 1.8 Neogene Tertiary The last time that the oil weapon was 23 used was during the oil crisis in 1973. THINA Cenozoic The US no longer had an oil buffer for the MARGARETHE West to lean on and was thus unable to SALTVELT, PH.D Paleogene 65* defend itself against OPEC’s oil supply cut. Does shale oil mean the US could once again become self- Cretaceous sufficient in oil? A technological breakthrough has made shale gas production South Atlantic starts opening South Atlantic Alpine orogeny profitable and transformed the US gas market. At today’s production level the total gas reserves of the US are now large enough to cover 145 consumption for the next ten years. The same technique can be used orogeny Laramide to extract oil from shale, so we could therefore be facing a paradigm Jurassic shift also in the oil market. Mesozoic Ever since the oil crisis in 1973, the US has had an ambition to become Pangaea breakup Pangaea self-sufficient in oil again. New extraction methods and high oil prices have made production of oil from shale formations lucrative. There is still 199* Norwegian-Greenland Sea starts opening little available information on the overall size of extractable oil reserves. Triassic According to the United States Geological Survey, the extractable shale North Sea rifting oil reserves of the US could be more than 24 Bbo. The US is assumed to have about half of the world’s known reserves. Shale oil production is 251* expected to increase six-fold over the coming ten years from the current Permian level of around 400,000 bopd. Together with increased NGL production (natural gas liquids) and larger extraction from existing fields, shale oil Central Atlantic starts opening Atlantic Central 299 could take the US one step closer to oil self-sufficiency. Until the early 1970s the US rather than the Arab countries was seen Phanerozoic Carboniferous as the oil industry’s last resort. Oil producers in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma could always swiftly turn on the taps and transport more oil rifting Gulf of Mexico The Big Five Extinction Events Big Five The to the global market if the need arose. But US oil production peaked as * early as 1970 and has since fallen by over 30%. During the same period 359* overall oil consumption rose by a hefty 41%. This has made the US Devonian very dependent on oil imports from politically unstable countries such OF PANGAEA FORMATION as Nigeria, Venezuela and Iraq. The growing dependency of the US on imported oil has made the country more economically and politically Paleozoic vulnerable. Oil-exporting countries have on a number of occasions used oil to exert political power.
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