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First Break - Volume 18, Issue 1, 2000
Volume 18, Issue 1, 2000
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Interview: CASP beyond the Arctic
By A. McBarnetEven though it’s been around for the best part of 25 years, you could be forgiven for not being aware of what CASP stands for and what it does. Even if you knew that it is in fact the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme based at the University of Cambridge, you would probably be wrong about the status and scope of the institution. Andrew McBarnet reports. The engagingly frank Dr Iain Bartholomew, new managing director and chief geologist, admits that he had never heard of CASP until he saw his current post advertised. Today, he is better informed and brimming with enthusiasm about the role CASP can play in the changing world of oil industry exploration and production. ‘What I recognize is that with all the merger activity and downsizing going on, oil companies have fewer and fewer people, but more and more assets which they’re trying to manage. The result is that true frontier-type basin study work is no longer being properly done. Companies just don’t have the staff or people with the experience.’ Which still doesn’t quite explain how CASP could fill the gap. To answer that question, a little history is required. CASP’s origins go back to the immediate post Second World War era when the venerable geologist Brian Holland of geological timescale renown was a lecturer in the Cambridge University Geology Department (now Earth Sciences). He was in the habit of taking geology PhD students to Spitzbergen. By the early 1960s Harland’s original Cambridge Svalbard Expedition began to attract funding from the oil industry as interest started to grow in hydrocarbons prospects in Northwest Europe.
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How will oil industry geoscience manage in the new Millennium?
The new Millennium has arrived at a particularly poignant moment in the relationship between the oil industry and the geoscience community when nothing can be taken for granted anymore. The second half of the 20th century was notable for the remarkable contribution made by geoscience research and technology in making exploration and production more efficient and cost effective. Now, consolidations, downsizing, outsourcing and the increasingly ruthless quest for shareholder value have significantly changed the strategy and operations of oil companies and left a big question mark hanging over the future role of the geosciences in finding and producing hydrocarbons. To offer some perspective on the challenge ahead, First Break invited a number of leading figures from the industry and academia to reflect on how they envisaged the future for the geosciences as we begin the new century.
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Industry Feature: Exploration opportunities and challenges of deep water hydrocarbons in India
Authors A. G. Pramanik, P. K. Painuly, V. Singh and A. K. SrivastavaDevelopments in other scientific and technical disciplines have led to significant advances during the past 50 years in exploration drilling and production technologies for offshore oil fields. This has resulted in tremendous improvements in methods for locationg, developing and exploiting new and existing oil fields in both shallow and deep water offshore areas since the initial platform was installed in 1947 in a water depth of 20 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Resistivity imaging of shallow salt with magnetotellurics as an aid to prestack depth migration
Authors E. den Boer, J. Eikelboom, P. van Driel and D. WattsCurrently NAM (Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V.) is undertaking a large Pre-Stack Depth Migration (Pre-SDM) campaign over several salt-related prospects in the Netherlands, two of which, Broek and Ommelanderwijk, are located in fig. 1. To build proper Pre-SDM models of salt domes it is essential to have accurate knowledge of the geology in the shallow subsurface. Using data acquired in a conventional 3D seismic acquisition geometry, with typical 400-500 m line spacing, it is often difficult to image the top of shallow salt domes accurately in the 0-500 m depth range. This problem can be seen clearly in Fig. 2, where a seismic section through the Broek salt dome is displayed.
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