Work is progressing well in the “New Appraisal of the Western Approaches Basins” project, which is financed by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and facilitated by the Oil and Gas Authority as part of the government’s initiatives to increase activity on the UKCS. We’re part of a multi-faceted consortium led by…

We’ve released the latest phase of our Zagros Regional Mapping! It’s great to be able to see the end result of many hundreds of days work, combining outcrop geology satellite imagery and very extensive published data. This is the fourth iteration of our Zagros mapping since 2008, and by far the most detailed and comprehensive.…

July often tends to be a quiet period in the office, while many of our clients enjoy a Summer break. This year though, we’re rather busy: mainly working on the final stages of our detailed re-mapping of Zagros geology. However, we’ve also made a bit of time for some outreach activities … firstly, to help…

Just on the way back from a great trip to the AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition in Calgary… not a cowboy in sight, but there was a palpable vibe throughout the conference that made it much more upbeat than other recent events we’ve attended. And as always in Calgary, there was some spectacular geology close to hand:…

A busy month with more industry-focused conferences… We’ll be at the Geological Society on May 19th for Finding Petroleum’s meeting on the challenges of doing business in Iran. Obviously we have a very strong geoscience interest in the entire Zagros region, so it will be interesting to hear more about the wider business challenges facing…

AAPG’s International Conference & Exhibition returns to Barcelona this month. We’ll be there, presenting on “Prediction of fracture networks in structural traps: Insights from outcrop characterisation of four-way closing anticlines in reservoir analogues.” This will highlight the results of some recent fieldwork we’ve being doing in collaboration the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, based on…

It’s a busy time for us at the upcoming GEO2016 in Bahrain, with three presentations scheduled in a single morning, covering fracture systems in UAE, fracture scaling properties in carbonate reservoirs in NE Iraq, and a more regional look at the Zagros, comparing structure and tectonics in Iran with Iraq and SE Turkey.

Following the success of last month’s Zagros workshop, held in London in collaboration with Nautilus, some people who were unable to attend have asked whether we plan to schedule other events on a similar theme. Contact us if you’re interested and we’ll keep you fully posted. Some of our recent research has appeared in this…