Recent Articles

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May 2022

Breathing New Life into Old Data

Jason Noble and Paul McColgan

Relative strength in oil prices, and sentiment that future supplies may be limited, have led some operating companies to explore in frontier areas that have proven, historically, to be highly productive. Some of these areas have seen little exploration activity for several decades for varied reasons, such as difficulty of…

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May 2022

Review of global warming, climate change, renewables, CCUS, geothermal and the geoscience involved (Part 2)

Brian Wm. Schulte

In this, the second part of a three-part article, we will discuss renewables (wind turbines and solar). We will look at price and Energy Returned on Investment (EROI) to compare sources of energy. We will also look at OPEC, at the lack of investment (which is causing the overall supply…

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April 2022

Overview of Carbon Management Canada’s pilot-scale CO2 injection site for developing and testing monitoring technologies for carbon capture and storage, and methane detection

M. Macquet, D. Lawton, K. Osadetz, G. Maidment, M. Bertram, K. Hall, B. Kolkman-Quinn, J. Monsegny Parra, F. Race, G. Savard, Y. Wang

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in geological formations is becoming a key technology for the permanent reduction of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. Pilot-scale projects with small volumes of injected CO2 are important, as they provide well controlled conditions that enable testing, validation, and quantification of these monitoring technologies.

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March 2022

The Variogram Basics: A visual introduction to one of the most useful geostatistical concepts

Evan Brown

The job of a petroleum geoscientist is rapidly transforming into a role that requires proficiency with statistical concepts and data management. The goal of this primer is to provide the reader, through words, basic examples and images, an understanding of some of the basic principles behind the semivariogram/variogram, a statistical…

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March 2022

Past, Present, and Future applications of Geophysics in Oil Sands – Part 2

Draga Talinga, David Gray, Hong Feng, Don C. Lawton, Brian Wm. Schulte

This is the second part of a two-part paper. This part of the paper explores some of the most recent advances in using seismic data for oil sands reservoirs. These are Time-lapse (4D) Inversion for SAGD; Predicting where Bitumen has been Liquified using PS-4D Seismic Data; 4D Time-Lapse Full Waveform…

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Recent Interviews

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June 2022

An interview with John Duhault

Mr. Duhault, Senior Geoscience Consultant at Starbird Enterprises, is a time honoured senior geophysical interpreter. He likes to tell stories of hunting for, and FINDING, oil and gas reserves for his shareholders and other clients. He has done technical and “Life’s a journey not a destination” type presentations in Canada, and when invited, in other countries on this planet.

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April 2022

An interview with Marit Brommer

Dr. Marit Brommer is the Executive Director of the International Geothermal Association. She is focused on creating strong partnerships with international operating organisations and industries. Prior to taking on this role, Marit worked at Shell for 15 years as a subsurface portfolio manager.

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February 2022

An interview with John Duhault and Julia McElgunn

This month’s interview is a little different – discussing the organizing of the VIG special session in the 2021 GeoConvention.

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Recent Columns

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June 2022

Tracing the Industry

Kristy Manchul

Happy Spring! The 49th Doodlespiel actually happened! I’m celebrating that CSEG social events are BACK and wanted to say congratulations to the winning A bracket team of Sterling Hansen, Matt Ng, Dan Perez and Igor Senek! Fabulous work by the Doodlespiel Committee keeping everyone safe and entertained.

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May 2022

President’s Messages

Nanna Eliuk and Kathleen Dorey

Past president Nanna Eliuk and incoming president Kathleen Dorey share their thoughts and views for the future of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

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April 2022

Student’s Corner: A Quest for Hot Rocks

Zoë Vestrum

Hello! My name is Zoë Vestrum. I’m a third year PhD student at the University of Alberta, studying magnetotellurics (MT) under Professor Martyn Unsworth. My research focuses on incorporating different near-surface resistivity measurements into the MT inversion model, in order to more reliably model deeper resistivity structures. I am currently…