First Break - Volume 15, Issue 3, 1997

Last year's exploration in the UK Continental shelf was a more successful year than 1995 and reversed a decline observed since 1993. This is one of the major conclusions of the annual UK North Sea Exploration and Production review by Edinburgh-based analyst Wood Mackenzie. The report warns that reserve replacement ratios remain heavily deficient underlining the mature status of the UKCS.

Helping people to manage the earth is the mission of Earth Resource Mapping, the Australian company with global ambitions for its integrated mapping software widely used in the oil industry.

I recently supervised a project to acquire seismic reflection profiles over abandoned gypsum mineworkings at a depth of 60 m in Yorkshire, England (Kourkafas & Goulty 1996). The origin~ intention was to locate the edges of the worked area by observing a change in the reflection response between workedand solid ground.