Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Seismic Principles

ADIPEC 2014, 10-13 November. Abu Dhabi, UAE, ADNEC

This multi-disciplinary conference is intended for international and regional oil and gas professionals, who are involved in both the technical and non-technical functions within the industry.

The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) will return on 10-13 November 2014 and will be celebrating 30 years of service to the industry. Since its inception in 1984, ADIPEC has provided an unrivalled platform for industry experts to come together and share knowledge and meet with peers. ADIPEC remains in the top 3 oil and gas events in the world welcoming delegates, visitors and exhibitors from across the globe.

For more information about ADIPEC please visit www.adipec.com.

Door to Hell - Natural gas deposit on fire for over 40 years

The site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971. It was thought to be a substantial oil field site. The scientists set up a drilling rig and camp nearby, and started drilling operations to assess the quantity of gas reserve available at the site. As the Soviets were pleased with the success of finding the gas resources, they started storing the gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig and camp collapsed into a wide crater and disappeared. No lives were lost in the incident. Large quantities of methane gas were released, however, creating an environmental problem and posing a potential danger to the people of the nearby villages.

Fearing the further release of poisonous gases from the cavern, the scientists decided to burn it off. They thought that it would be safer to burn it than to extract it from underground through expensive methods.


Environmentally, setting gas on fire is the next best solution when the circumstances are such that it cannot be extracted for use. At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn out within a few weeks, but has continued to burn more than four decades after it was set on fire.

Geocap for ArcGIS - Seismic Explorer

20th Western Africa Oil, Gas & Energy. 14 - 16 April 2014 Windhoek Namibia

With a 35 year proven track record in and on Africa, Global Pacific & Partnerswill host their 20th Western Africa Oil, Gas/ LNG & Energy 2014 Conference in Namibia, with the 10th Western Africa: Strategy Briefing taking place on the 14th April at same venue.

The “Western Africa” arena covers a vast oil and gas exploration zone, one of the world’s richest and most promising for ventures- from Morocco to the Cape, including island states, with an enormous offshore zone and hydrocarbon potential, alongside prospective deepwater blocks, ultra-deep opportunities only to date marginally explored, Exclusive Economic Zones, and promising pre-salt potential analogous to Brasil, plus numerous existing onshore basins (producing and immature, as well as frontier) and a huge interior domain across 27 countries – in effect, fully one half of Africa and the continental land mass of over 30, 000 sq km.

With around 30 speakers from Governments, National Oil Companies, Super-Majors and Independents on the Program, the meeting canvasses the investment strategies, exploration ventures, deal flow, transactions, and new venture opportunities, with bid rounds from Licensing Agencies, in a complex and fast-moving oil/gas-LNG industry, with an enhanced Exhibition and the engagement of the service/supply industry across the region as well as from abroad.

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