June News

Details of upcoming courses that we are running for GeoLogica

This month sees the launch of new industry training courses run by GeoLogica. It’s great to see how the experienced team have assembled a range of courses with impressive depth and breadth, and we’re really excited to be involved! In addition to training that focuses on sub-surface interpretation, there is also a comprehensive program of…

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May News

Screenshot from virtual fieldtrip in SE Turkey

We’re still very busy this month preparing and running virtual fieldtrips while covid restrictions prevent most real fieldtrips from taking place. Following on from our earlier excursions, in which we’ve toured the Zagros (many times!), the Betics in SE Spain, and classic UK geology in SE Scotland and NE England, our next trip returned to…

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September News Update

Screenshot from our Virtual Field-Trip to SE Spain for Durham University

There’s so much great geology to see via Google Earth! Areas of active tectonism often provide some of the best case studies for demonstrating the close relationship between landscape and geodynamics. This month we’ve helped colleagues in Earth Sciences at Durham University to run a virtual fieldtrip to the Betics in southern Spain, using Google…

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August News

The new (old!) 1950’s Spain’s Field Farm, now rebuilt at Beamish Museum

Beamish – The Living Museum of the North – is one of UK’s (and GRL’s!) favourite tourist attractions. Despite Covid restrictions, the museum is still open for business, and it’s great to see that work is continuing apace to complete the exciting expansion plans that were formulated long before lock-down. One part of the new…

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July News

Highly fractured and faulted Lewisian basement, Upper Garrabost beach, Lewis

We’ve just got back from a scouting mission to Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, to finalise the field itinerary and double-check logistics and HSE for our upcoming workshop in fractured basement reservoirs, scheduled for September. It rained! A lot! And it was so windy that the arrival of our trip leader Bob Holdsworth was delayed…

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June News Update

Checking one of our autonomous GNSS units on Mt. Etna

Our main field-based task this month has been to re-visit the autonomous GNSS units that we deployed on Mt. Etna and which had recorded the seismic swarm that caused displacement on the Pernicana fault on the eastern flank of the volcano six months ago. We had unexpectedly lost remote contact with one of the units,…

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November News

ig caption: 3D view of fracture analysis from a virtual outcrop model of the Barsarin formation from the Makook anticline, Kurdistan Re

Fractured reservoirs and virtual outcrop geology are recurrent themes for us during a busy week at PETEX this month. We will be using examples from a range of well fractured outcrop analogues to illustrate how virtual outcrop technologies can provide continued value throughout the life of a field – catch us in the poster session…

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October News Update

Coastal Zechstein exposures Co. Durham.

Representatives from BP, Equinor, Shell, Aker BP, DEA, JX Nippon, OPL, Tangram, Vermilion, and others joined us for the pre-conference ‘Geology of Fractured Reservoirs’ fieldtrip to see coastal exposes of complex Zechstein carbonates, and enjoyed clear Autumn weather, great discussions on the outcrop, and some fine fish & chips!

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July News

Advanced Notice! … We’re pleased to announce an upcoming fieldtrip as part of the Geological Society of London, Petroleum Group conference on The Geology of Fractured Reservoirs. Since such a large proportion of the world’s oil and gas reserves are in fractured reservoirs, the conference promises to be highly relevant to the oil and gas…

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August News

Durham Bishops Richard De Bury & Thomas De Hatfield

Was geology invented in Durham? Scholarly studies of medieval manuscripts have shown that use of the term geologia first appeared around 1344 in a book by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. The venerable bishop’s book, the Philobiblon, was a treatise extolling the author’s passion for books and learning, and is often regarded as the…

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