Compliance in Action: Regulating Alberta's Pipelines

Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing in Alberta - Leading the Way

FrackNation

Scientific Deep Sea Drilling and Coring Technology

Map of Assessed Shale Gas in the United States, USGS

Map of Assessed Shale Gas in the United States, 2012. pdf

Safety Mining Seminar May 26th - 27th. (Seminario de Seguridad Minera, MINSEG)

MINSEG + INFO

Pre-Salt Oil Reserves

Brazil currently produces almost 400,000 bopd from pre-salt reservoirs in the Santos and Campos Basins. Brazil's total oil production is currently 2.2 million bopd.

Video: Pre-salt Oil Reserves

Brazilian and West African oil families. Source: USGS, 2006.

Petrobras forecasts Brazil's pre-salt oil production will reach 1.0 million bopd by 2017 and increase to 2.1 million bopd by 2020. Indeed, Petrobras has set a very ambitious goal to achieve by 2020, a production level of 4.2 million bopd of pre-salt oil production (Tako Koning P. Geol, Reservoir Magazine, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists).

The oil industry is keenly watching to see if Brazil's success will be duplicated in West Africa. The following link is a very interesting article about the pre-salt oil reserves in Gabon, compared with the Brazil's pre-salt deposits.

HUNTING THE PRE-SALT

(Jim Martin, Steve Toothill, CGG Veritas and Rufin Moussavou)

Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Seismic Principles

ADIPEC 2014, 10-13 November. Abu Dhabi, UAE, ADNEC

This multi-disciplinary conference is intended for international and regional oil and gas professionals, who are involved in both the technical and non-technical functions within the industry.

The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) will return on 10-13 November 2014 and will be celebrating 30 years of service to the industry. Since its inception in 1984, ADIPEC has provided an unrivalled platform for industry experts to come together and share knowledge and meet with peers. ADIPEC remains in the top 3 oil and gas events in the world welcoming delegates, visitors and exhibitors from across the globe.

For more information about ADIPEC please visit www.adipec.com.

Door to Hell - Natural gas deposit on fire for over 40 years

The site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971. It was thought to be a substantial oil field site. The scientists set up a drilling rig and camp nearby, and started drilling operations to assess the quantity of gas reserve available at the site. As the Soviets were pleased with the success of finding the gas resources, they started storing the gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig and camp collapsed into a wide crater and disappeared. No lives were lost in the incident. Large quantities of methane gas were released, however, creating an environmental problem and posing a potential danger to the people of the nearby villages.

Fearing the further release of poisonous gases from the cavern, the scientists decided to burn it off. They thought that it would be safer to burn it than to extract it from underground through expensive methods.


Environmentally, setting gas on fire is the next best solution when the circumstances are such that it cannot be extracted for use. At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn out within a few weeks, but has continued to burn more than four decades after it was set on fire.

Geocap for ArcGIS - Seismic Explorer

20th Western Africa Oil, Gas & Energy. 14 - 16 April 2014 Windhoek Namibia

With a 35 year proven track record in and on Africa, Global Pacific & Partnerswill host their 20th Western Africa Oil, Gas/ LNG & Energy 2014 Conference in Namibia, with the 10th Western Africa: Strategy Briefing taking place on the 14th April at same venue.

The “Western Africa” arena covers a vast oil and gas exploration zone, one of the world’s richest and most promising for ventures- from Morocco to the Cape, including island states, with an enormous offshore zone and hydrocarbon potential, alongside prospective deepwater blocks, ultra-deep opportunities only to date marginally explored, Exclusive Economic Zones, and promising pre-salt potential analogous to Brasil, plus numerous existing onshore basins (producing and immature, as well as frontier) and a huge interior domain across 27 countries – in effect, fully one half of Africa and the continental land mass of over 30, 000 sq km.

With around 30 speakers from Governments, National Oil Companies, Super-Majors and Independents on the Program, the meeting canvasses the investment strategies, exploration ventures, deal flow, transactions, and new venture opportunities, with bid rounds from Licensing Agencies, in a complex and fast-moving oil/gas-LNG industry, with an enhanced Exhibition and the engagement of the service/supply industry across the region as well as from abroad.

20th Western Africa +INFO

How a deep water well is drilled - Shell

Shell Canada's Carmon Creek Heavy Oil Project

Outdoor Idaho: Geology, A Convergence of Wonders

10th Alaska Oil and Gas Congress

Panel discussions on:

Pipeline and alternative energy projects;  what projects are most likely to move forward?

Alaska’s legislative initiatives to increase state competitiveness

The competitive implications of Alaska’s new oil tax regime

Plus an unsurpassed speaker faculty!

Other highlights from the 2013 Alaska Oil & Gas Congress include:

During two information-packed days, take part in interactive sessions, discuss the newest developments and get critical updates including:

• An overview of competing natural gas pipeline proposals from leading project proponents
• Details on efforts to streamline the permit system for oil and gas activity
• Alaskan initiatives to open Arctic trade routes with Drue Pearce and Alaska Lt Gov Mead Treadwell
• Updates on federal regulatory developments for on-shore and off-shore energy exploration and production
• Lessons learned from the Bakken and with Vicky Steiner, Executive Director, North Dakota Association of Oil and Gas Producing Counties, and John Tintera, former Executive Director, Texas Railroad Commission
• The current state of energy reserves with Edward Duncan, President CEO of Great Bear Petroleum and James S Watt, President and COO, Buccaneer, Alaska

ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONGRESS + INFO

DFNE 2014, Vancouver, Canada from October 19 - 22, 2014.

The Vancouver rock mechanics community is pleased to host DFNE 2014, the 1st International Conference on Discrete Fracture Network Engineering. This conference will be the inaugural international meeting of engineers and geoscientists who use discrete fracture network engineering in the characterization of rock masses and solutions of engineering problems. This new and rapidly expanding area of engineering has wide applications, including underground and surface mining, underground nuclear waste disposal, petroleum geomechanics, civil engineering and natural hazards.

January 31, 2014

Deadline for on-line abstract submission

 DFNE 2014 + INFO

BP Energy Outlook 2035: A view from 2014

BasinSPANS - Exploration Concepts at the Basin Scale - ION Geophysical

Using Steam to Produce More Oil - Chevron