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Shell Offshore has made a final investment decision (FID) on a sizeable oil and gas project offshore Louisiana. It is expected to recover more than 240 million BOE over its lifetime. The Sparta development straddles four blocks in the Garden Banks protraction area in about 1400-m water depth located approximately 275 km off the Louisiana coast in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The development features eight subsea production wells and two subsea drilling bases connected via two production loops to a newbuild floating production unit capable of producing up to 90,000 BOE/D. Sparta will be Shell's 15th GOM deepwater host and will begin production in 2028.
Supermajor Shell has made a final investment decision (FID) to develop three new wells in its Great White unit that will boost production at the Shell-operated Perdido spar in the Alaminos Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). After completion of this campaign in April 2025, these wells collectively are expected to produce up to 22,000 BOED at peak rates. The Perdido spar, located in Alaminos Canyon block 857, came online in 2010 hosting volumes from three fields--Great White, Silvertip, and Tobago. The facility is located 200 miles south of Galveston, Texas, in about 8,000 ft of water. The new wells will be drilled in the Great White unit, where Shell is the operator with 33.34% working interest.
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- North America > United States > Texas > Galveston County > Galveston (0.27)
- North America > United States > Gulf of Mexico > Central GOM > East Gulf Coast Tertiary Basin > Mars-Ursa Basin > Mississippi Canyon > Block 812 > Kaikias Field (0.99)
- North America > United States > Gulf of Mexico > Central GOM > East Gulf Coast Tertiary Basin > Mars-Ursa Basin > Mississippi Canyon > Block 811 > Kaikias Field (0.99)
- North America > United States > Gulf of Mexico > Western GOM > West Gulf Coast Tertiary Basin > Perdido Basin > Alaminos Canyon (0.98)
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- Well Drilling (0.60)
The gradient is a concept that is familiar to everyone who has climbed a mountain (Figure 8). As a climber goes up the mountain, he experiences the rate of change of elevation. The magnitude of the gradient vector is the rate of change of the elevation along this path. Thus, if the climber continually follows the gradient, he will take the steepest path to the top of the mountain. This steepest path is called a flow line.
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The Tiber WATS dataset distribution consists of five different subsets of a commercial 3D Wide- Azimuth Towed-Streamer seismic dataset acquired in the U.S. deep-water Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (Naranjo et al., 2011), along with an associated anisotropic velocity model to use for migrating the seismic data. The seismic data cover Tiber, a deep-water oil field, Paleogene in age, that resides in Northern Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. The data subset included in the distribution covers a full-fold area of about 11 OCS blocks. Bp released the data with the aim of facilitating the creation of new imaging algorithms and workflows that may create higher-resolution images beneath complex salt than is currently possible. This distribution includes 5 different versions of the Tiber WATS dataset along with necessary supporting documentation (velocity model, geological information, technical overview, file lists, copyright, etc).
- North America > United States > Gulf of Mexico (0.26)
- North America > Canada > Alberta (0.17)
- Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.44)
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Among his many innovations to the reflection seismic method, Kauffman is noted for conducting the first offshore seismic surveys in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell in 1937, which paved the way for offshore drilling in the Gulf. As an academic Kauffman was no less innovative, he head the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP), which conducted deep reflection seismic surveys across North America. His early work charted way for offshore drilling 71 years ago, rented shrimp boats aided physicist Sidney Kaufman in quest for Gulf of Mexico oil. Sidney Kaufman, who rented a few shrimp boats 71 years ago and pioneered a seismic study that eventually helped lead to petroleum production in the Gulf of Mexico, has died. As chief of a water seismic crew that normally operated in bays, marshes, inlets and lagoons, Kaufman in 1937 found a rock formation that extended from a bay near Corpus Christi into the Gulf, according to an account by Shell Oil Co., his employer at the time. "Renting shrimp boats for 28 a day, (Kaufman) and his crew ran seismic lines four miles out from shore," the account says. When his boss discovered what Kaufman was doing, he was furious, Kaufman recalled years later in the Shell account. He quoted the supervisor as saying: "What the hell are you doing in 65 feet of water? You know we can't drill out there."
- North America > United States > Texas (0.28)
- North America > United States > Gulf of Mexico > Western GOM (0.24)
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Luis A. Gallardo received an M.S. (1997) in applied geophysics from CICESE, a Ph.D. (2005) in environmental science from Lancaster University, and held the Goodeve Lectureship (2009โ2011) at the University of Western Australia. He is a titular researcher in the Department of Applied Geophysics at CICESE, Mexico; a national scientist from the National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico; and an adjunct scientist of the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the University of Western Australia. His research interests include geophysical inverse theory and the joint inversion of gravity, electromagnetic, and seismic data. He has worked on geophysical imaging for mineral and petroleum exploration in Western Australia, Western Turkey, Southeast Brazil, and West Africa. He has also worked on near surface imaging projects for environmental and geotechnical applications.
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- Oceania > Australia > Western Australia (0.68)
- Geophysics > Seismic Surveying > Seismic Processing (0.38)
- Geophysics > Seismic Surveying > Seismic Modeling > Velocity Modeling (0.30)
- Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.40)
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Donald Rockwell received the Reginald Fessenden Award in 1994. Geophysicists who have gained the stature to be considered for a major SEG award are most often distinguished in one of the following categories: vision, teaching, management, and exploration. There are those scientists with the genius of seeing the future. This vision is usually in the area of problem definition which leads eventually to a solution. The second category are geophysicists who have that special talent for teaching. This transmission of knowledge is more than the simple exchange of ideas, it is the activation of a thirst for answers.
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- Energy > Oil & Gas (0.51)
- Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.40)
- Information Technology > Communications > Collaboration (0.40)
John D. Fett (1933-2009) On July 14, 2009 John David Fett passed away suddenly in his home in Crystal Bay, Nevada. He had been battling the progression of Parkinson's Disease, had recovered from having a brain tumor removed a few years earlier, and had recently found out that he was beginning to have congestive heart failure. After his passing, family, neighbors, and friends, including some of his closest professional friends and business associates, helped to celebrate his life through their stories and reminiscences at his home. His ashes were scattered from a float plane over Lake Tahoe during the event, celebrating his love for flying. John was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 2, 1933.
- North America > United States > California (0.35)
- North America > United States > New York > Kings County > New York City (0.25)
- Geophysics > Seismic Surveying (0.71)
- Geophysics > Gravity Surveying > Gravity Acquisition (0.33)
- Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.40)
- Information Technology > Communications > Collaboration (0.40)
Paul Weaver was a pioneering geophysicist/geologist who served as the 1932-1933 SEG President. Paul Weaver served as the first Editor of ''Geophysics'' 1931-1932.[1] It is doubtful that there is a geophysicist-geologist in the profession today who is as well known for the great breadth and variety of information at his command as the "walking encyclopedia" who is the third recipient of an honorary membership in the SEG to be granted at this time. How does a mind with such an unusual capacity for assembling information get to be that way? Born at Carrolton, Kentucky, on the Ohio River, Paul Weaver's father and mother both were teachers.
- North America > United States > Kentucky (0.26)
- North America > United States > Ohio (0.25)
- North America > United States > Texas (0.18)
- Energy > Oil & Gas (0.51)
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- Information Technology > Communications > Collaboration (0.40)
It is with pleasure and admiration that we prepare this citation recognizing Shorty's contributions toward making 3-D seismic technology feasible and commercially viable. His effort was in collaboration with Milo Backus and Robert Graebner while all three were associated with Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI). Shorty was born in Mediapolis, Iowa. He joined GSI as a surveyor trainee in 1944 and progressed through the field jobs to party chief. Promotions followed: supervisor, Rocky Mountains-west Texas; area manager, west Texas; vice-president, Western U.S.; vice-president, U.S. land operations; vice-president, corporate spec and strategic planning; and vice-president, U.S. and Latin America marine and processing.
- North America > United States > New Mexico > Permian Basin > Bell Lake Field (0.99)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Val Verde Basin (0.94)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Delaware Basin (0.94)
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