Seismic surveying has dominated both the headlines and opinion pages in the last few years. You might think this research technique is new, given all the recent fanfare, but the process has actually ...

Drilling for oil is an expensive gamble: With project costs rising every year, an oil company can stand to lose an incredible amount of money exploring or developing a property that fails to yield ...

Within the context of record high exploration costs and the increasing difficulty in finding large hydrocarbon deposits, exploration companies face even more pressure to reduce risk to deliver results ...

Seismic characterization can be costly. In standard surface acquisition, data are collected well beyond reservoir boundaries. These results are used to map reservoir geometry but often have little ...