Low oil prices have motivated energy executives to look into cost reduction in their supply chains more seriously. To this end, a new technology that is experimentally considered in hydrocarbon exploration is data mining. There are two major categories of geoscientific problems in which data mining is applied: structural geology and reservoir property-issues. This research overviews these categ...

The discovery of hydrocarbons (mainly gas) in commercial quantities from Gondwanan sediments in the Mandapeta ®eld of Krishna-Godavari Basin, India, provided impetus for intensi®ed exploration in Mandapeta and the adjoining Kommugudem, Draksharama and Endamuru ®elds. Both oil and gas have been found in the reservoirs of Mandapeta (Triassic) and Golapalli (Early Cretaceous) formations. Mature, l...

We present a framework for sequential decision making in problems described by graphical models. The setting is given by dependent discrete random variables with associated costs or revenues. In our examples, the dependent variables are the potential outcomes (oil, gas or dry) when drilling a petroleum well. The goal is to develop an optimal selection strategy that incorporates a chosen utility...

Between 2010 and 2011, the author’s group developed a practical SQUID system applicable to minerals exploration under the development of the next generation SQUITEM equipment and SQUID magnetometers, commissioned by Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC). With the successful completion of final tests in Australia, a practically designed SQUID system developed for electromagneti...

Many have voiced concern about the long-term survival of coastal communities in the face of increasingly intense storms and sea level rise. In this study we select indicators of key theoretical concepts from the social-ecological resilience literature, aggregate those indicators into a resilience-capacity index, and calculate an index score for each of the 52 coastal counties of Louisiana, Texa...

" The nation's current approach to managing the use of ocean resources is ad hoc and fragmented, with no systematic way to evaluate competing ocean uses and to inform and navigate the often difficult trade-off decisions they require. The nation needs a 'comprehensive, integrated, ecosystem-based' framework for coastal and marine spatial planning that " addresses conserva-T he dramatic run-up in...

Oil and gas exploration and production activities are carried out in hazardous environments in many parts of the world. Recent events in the Gulf of Mexico highlight those risks and underline the importance of considering human factors during facility design. Ergonomic factors such as machinery design, facility and accommodation layout and the organization of work activities have been systemati...