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10/19/2017

A UWA geologist has proposed a hypothesis which threatens to overturn conventional notions of the way Banded Ironstone Formations (BIF) firs

10/31/2016

Scientists work through the ramifications of a declaring a new geologic epoch.

Some geologists believe we’ve entered a new era. Now they have to search for the rocks that prove it

07/19/2016

ARTICLE OF THE DAY: Iraq Petroleum Geology, from Memoir 106

"Nearly all of the oil and gas occurs in fields located within the Mesopotamian foredeep, Gotnia Basin, and Zagros foldbelt. Minor discoveries and shows have been found on the Arabian platform along the western flank of the Mesopotamian foredeep. There is one gas discovery (Akkas field) on the Arabian platform in western Iraq."

There are more than 100 oil and gas fields in Iraq, containing more than 137 billion barrels of recoverable oil and more than 106 TCF of recoverable gas. Of this large resource, about 25 billion barrels of oil and 11 TCF of gas have been produced as of 2014.

01/13/2016

ARTICLE OF THE DAY: Paleontology, from AAPG Methods in Exploration #10

"Paleontology, the study of fossil organisms and their traces, has been used in the exploration for and exploitation of hydrocarbons since the later half of the nineteenth century."

01/11/2016

ARTICLE OF THE DAY: CO2 Storage, from AAPG Studies in Geology #59.

"Carbon dioxide storage involves keeping the CO2 secured deep underground in a geological reservoir. Carbon dioxide can be stored geologically in a variety of different options. These include depleted oil and gas fields, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), deep saline formations, deep unmineable coal seams, enhanced coalbed methane recovery (ECBMR), and other opportunities such as salt caverns."