My Top 5 Features in Unconventionals Analyst v3.2
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Why Magnetic Data is Essential for Mineral Exploration
Critical minerals demand has doubled in the past five years and continues to rise, elevating the importance of effective mineral…
Key Takeaways from EAGE 2024: A Major Annual Energy Event
The 2024 EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) Annual Conference was a bustling event, echoing the vibrancy of pre-Covid…
How Natural Helium Could Give Natural Hydrogen Exploration a Lift
There has been a growing realisation that the global supply of helium is unlikely to meet demand, in part evidenced…
Using Gravity Data to Focus your Offshore Exploration
De-risking offshore exploration and license round evaluation – an example from offshore Nigeria Acquiring, processing and interpreting exploration data in…
A Global Approach for Determining the Favorability of Sedimentary Lithium Accumulation
Executive Summary Lithium is forecast to experience a 40-fold demand increase by 2050 (Figure 1); predominantly because of the increased…
The Mineral Systems Approach: An Introduction
Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist, philosopher, naturalist and author but he wasn’t a geologist. However, when he wrote “it’s…
Magnetic Data: an Essential Tool for the Exploration of Critical Minerals in Africa
Africa and Critical Minerals With the ever-increasing demand for access to critical minerals vital to support the global energy transition,…
A Mineral Systems Approach to Targeting Natural Hydrogen Deposits
Introduction Hydrogen is widely accepted as an integral piece of the energy transition jigsaw puzzle. Its projected global demand is…
ArcGIS Pro: Manage Feature Cache in Maps
Have you ever experienced odd behavior in your maps? Layers that should be visible not displaying correctly at certain zoom…
Using ArcGIS for Regulatory Reporting of UK Infrastructure Data
The North Sea Transition Authority are the UK’s oil, gas and carbon storage regulator, tasked with driving the energy transition…
12 themes from ‘the Davos of Energy’
How can the energy industry provide secure, sustainable and affordable energy to the world? Max Brouwers, Getech’s Chief Business Development…
Using Gravity and Magnetics in Identifying Sustainable Groundwater Sources
Gravity and magnetic data are excellent tools to quickly and cost-effectively map subsurface structure and composition over large areas. In…
Canada Invests Billions to Seize Generational Opportunity
As 2022 drew to a close, Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources announced his government’s Critical Mineral’s Strategy along…
SWOT altimetry and the next generation of offshore gravity
The launch on December 15, 2022, of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission from the Vandenberg Space…
WEF Warns of the ‘Great Minerals Scramble’
For five days every year since 1971, the small Swiss alpine village of Davos hosts what is a unique combination…
Exploration for Critical Minerals Must Increase
The exploration and production of critical minerals will need to accelerate if countries are to meet their future net zero…
Locating ultramafics – another string to the Carbon Storage bow
Carbon storage – a vital piece of the energy transition jigsaw Effective carbon capture and storage (CCS) will play an…
Finding the next IOCG monster
Background Iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) ore deposits are a hugely important mineral resource as they provide large quantities of…
Can Exploration and Carbon Storage Square a Virtuous Circle?
In 1973, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) embargoed the delivery of their oil to certain countries, leading…
Unconventional Well Mapping Workflows for ArcGIS Pro
We have recently released the ArcGIS Pro 3.x compatible version of our Unconventionals Analyst software, which enables you to simplify…
Diagenesis: A key discipline, Then and Now
It has long been understood that the quality of energy resource reservoirs is significantly influenced by diagenesis – i.e. the…
Getech Commentary on IEA World Energy Investment Report 2022
Getech welcomes today’s IEA World Energy Investment Report showing that clean energy spending has returned to a trajectory of growth,…
My Top 5 Features in v2.2 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro
As we have just released version 2.2 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite new…
Probing the Frontier in Namibia
Exploration Hotspot – Namibia Nothing focuses global industry attention like concentrated exploration success. The month of February 2022 saw back-to-back…
Maptium – Your gateway to geoenergy data and insight
For more than 40 years Getech has curated a vast amount of world-class geoscience data and analysis which is used…
Geologic History in Bavaria Uncovers Pathways to the Energy Future
Getech is pleased to report the publication of two papers entitled “Reconstructing environmental signals across the Permian-Triassic boundary in the…
My Top 5 Highlights of Globe 2021
Last year we released Globe 2021, the latest edition of our market-leading geoscience knowledge base. Each annual release adds innovative…
Vehicle Motion and Emissions Mapping
In this blog we look at how the GPS data recorded with video data, or by standalone/phone-based trackers, can be used…
Getech’s Globe Supports a Low-Carbon Future
Successful transition to a low-carbon global economy will require greater geological insight than before; we must still explore for critical…
Finding Porous Reservoirs is the Past, Present and Future of Energy
Geology’s Future in the Energy Transition The need for a carbon-free energy future is well-accepted but are we in danger…
Optimizing Offshore Wind Turbine Locations using ArcGIS Pro
As governments around the world look to accelerate their energy transition efforts with increasing investment in offshore wind (such as…
Copying Items Between Portals Using Python
Sometimes it’s extremely useful to be able to manage your Portal via scripting and handily Esri provides the ArcGIS API…
Exploring for Viable Geothermal Energy With Heat Seeker™
Identifying attractive geothermal sites by combining geoscience and market factors with geospatial machine learning analytics. Geothermal energy is playing…
Using Video Data in the ArcGIS Platform Part 3 GoPro Video
A lot of video recording devices (dash cams, drones and action cameras such as GoPro) now also record a range…
My Top 5 Features in v2.1 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro
As we have just released version 2.1 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite new features so you can check them out when you install the latest software… 1 – Analyze Well…
Top 4 Features in v2.1 of Data Assistant for ArcGIS Pro
This week we released our ArcGIS Pro 2.7 & 2.8 compatible version of Data Assistant for ArcGIS Pro. Here I…
Predicting Sedimentary Copper with Global-Scale Data
The accelerating transition to clean energy is fuelling increased demand for many minerals and metals, including copper which is an…
Is the Energy Transition Behind a Revival in the Fortunes of Copper?
The price of copper has been rising steadily since March 2020. The reasons for this reversal – prices had been…
Using drone video data in the ArcGIS platform
A lot of video recording devices (dash cams, drones and action cameras such as GoPro) now also record a range of metadata…
Using ‘Dash Cam’ Video Data in the ArcGIS platform
A lot of video recording devices (dash cams, drones and action cameras such as GoPro) now also record a range of metadata along with the video file, such as spatial information that we can use to locate the video and…
Mapping Rail Freight Routes for Green Hydrogen Opportunities
Getech has recently announced its acquisition of H2Green, which is building a network of production, storage and refuelling infrastructure to…
Multi-Sat 2020: A leap forward for offshore mapping confidence
Explore like never before The latest release of Getech’s industry leading Multi-Sat 2020 data ushers in a new era of…
Getech-sponsored Project Completes Play Fairway Analysis
As part of her project studies during the summer of 2020 for the Imperial College Petroleum Geoscience MSc, and sponsored…
Internet of Things Sensors
Last year we published a series of blogs reporting on some of the work we’d done processing and visualizing point cloud data within ArcGIS Pro to…
Globe 90 Second Series 5: “Answering Your Sand Provenance Questions”
The inboard operator is producing from a thick pile of thin sands. Do any of them make it out to…
Temperature at depth: Why is it important, and how do we calculate it?
Knowledge of the temperature through the Earth’s crust and upper mantle is vitally important for understanding the potential for energy…
Globe 90 Second Series 4: “No Top Seal!”
If the enormous structure down-dip from your play-opening gas discovery has no top seal, is the play concept dead? Globe…
Advanced Processing and Quantitative Interpretation – Part II
In this blog we look at ways in which you can assign depth values to geological features and combine the…
Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part VI
In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we look at extracting architectural detail and assets from the point cloud…
Mapping climate change for Kent County Council
Our changing climate is already affecting us all. Eighteen of the warmest years on record have occurred during the last…
Globe 90 Second Series 3: “Shale not Carbonate”
Drilled a mounded facies you thought was carbonate and it turned out to be shale – is the whole block…
Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part V
In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we start to look at…
Globe 90 Second Series 2: “Drilling far from well control?”
Are you drilling a well 100 kms from the nearest well control but you’re not sure if your calibration rock…
Geospatial intelligence for the energy transition – How lessons from Oil and Gas benefit the Renewables sector
Here on earth, almost all energy we use today comes from the sun. Not just solar power, but also wind…
Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part IV
In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we look at how we…
Reduce, reuse, recycle: decommissioning oil platforms
The global decommissioning of ageing oil and gas facilities is projected to be a $42 billion market by 2024, led…
Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part III
In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we look at the execution…
Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part II
In the second of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, Ben Holmes documents the execution…
Globe 90 Second Series 1: “Have you drilled a duster?”
If you have two prospects that look similar – they share depositional systems of comparable age with a closely-aligned structural…
Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform
Many organizations are interested in the ‘Digital Twin’ – a computer-based replica of a physical asset onto which other data can be layered to derive insight:…
Advanced Processing and Qualitative Interpretation
As with many geophysical interpretation methods, the analysis of gravity and magnetic data has two distinct aspects: qualitative and quantitative.…
Advanced Processing and Qualitative Interpretation – Part I
As with many geophysical interpretation methods, the analysis of gravity and magnetic data has two distinct aspects: qualitative and quantitative.…
What Colour is Your Hydrogen?
Renewable energy sources face a problem of storing and transporting the power they create and many, working on the Energy…
Seeing With New Eyes: The Value of Gravity & Magnetic Data
In times when value for money is more important than ever, Getech is launching a series of blogs and webinars…
Exploring New Frontiers at GRSG Frascati ‘19
In December 2019 I had the great pleasure of attending the 30th Anniversary Conference and AGM of the Geological Remote…
Correlation from Atlantic break-up – Sierra Leone and Guyana
The Sierra Leone Fourth Petroleum Licensing Round is scheduled to close on 28th February 2020 for both Open Tender and…
The Pelican Energy Transition
In the last eight years, Esri users around the world have created nearly one million Story Maps to share their…
Challenging current thinking on deep water petroleum systems. Equatorial Atlantic Margin, Sierra Leone. How integrated studies help to reduce exploration risk
Sierra Leone – the next in line for deep water success? The Sierra Leone Fourth Licensing Round, reopened in May…
Getech sponsors Imperial College MSc project investigating Santos Basin prospectivity
Getech, the natural resource exploration specialist, continues to support Imperial College students with projects that contribute to their MSc studies.…
Enhancing Satellite Gravity with New Datasets and Technology
Gravity anomalies can be measured from space by gradiometers mounted on satellites, but fundamental physical limitations mean the resulting maps…
Identifying Onshore Surface Seeps with Satellites
Reducing exploration risk by confirming petroleum source and charge is a major component of petroleum system analysis and is a…
Getech Ensures Hash Carries On On!
Getech was delighted to help sponsor the recent 27th Oil Industry Hash, held by the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great…
Using High-Resolution Gravity Data to Target Play Locations: Permian Basin Case Study
Why Use High-Resolution Gravity Data? High-resolution gravity data is an essential part of a balanced exploration campaign. It is an…
London Globe User Group Meeting
Following another successful User Group Meeting in Houston in October 2018, last week Getech held the first ever London-based User Group meeting for its European Globe customers at the Geological Society in Piccadilly. The meeting comprised a mixture of technical…
Importing Geology and Geophysics Data into ArcGIS Pro
Exprodat has just released the first ArcGIS Pro version of our Data Assistant extension to ArcGIS Desktop. Data Assistant enables you to…
Getech South Caribbean Regional Report Makes Esri Map Book
Our Regional Report Online which uses a Story Map to summarise an assessment of the potential effects of the end-member plate…
The Right Data for the Right Problems – Part 4
Creating tectonic reconstructions requires diverse data from across geology and geophysics; methods and techniques to uncover the tectonic evolution of…
De-risk your Permian Basin exploration campaign with the industry’s most comprehensive Gravity Database from Getech
Getech, providers of natural resources exploration data and expertise, is pleased to unveil its unparalleled, industry-leading gravity database for the…
Getech reduces South Africa’s exploration risk
Getech has reprocessed and integrated all pre-2014 non-confidential gravity and magnetic data of Petroleum Agency SA covering the offshore of…
The Right Data for the Right Problems – Part 3
Creating tectonic reconstructions requires diverse data from across geology and geophysics; methods and techniques to uncover the tectonic evolution of…
The Right Data for the Right Problems – Part 2
Creating tectonic reconstructions requires diverse data from across geology and geophysics; methods and techniques to uncover the tectonic evolution of…
The Right Data for the Right Problems – Part 1
Creating tectonic reconstructions requires diverse data from across geology and geophysics; methods and techniques to uncover the tectonic evolution of…
Reinvigorate your legacy Gravity and Magnetics: a valuable data resource waiting to be unleashed.
Valuable resource Many oil companies, mining companies and government agencies have extremely valuable data resources languishing in store rooms and…
Getech South West Approaches Study Released by UK Oil and Gas Authority
As part of its ongoing 21st Century Exploration Roadmap (21CXRM) initiative, the UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has released the…
Plate Tectonics at 50
In October of this year, well-known names from the various disciplines of geology, geophysics and geodynamics met at the Geological…
Samaritans Gets a Boost from the Getech Group
A recent initiative launched by the Leeds Branch of Samaritans called “Money for nothing”, whereby donations of surplus or unwanted foreign…
Gemma runs for GB and Getech
Gemma Scougal, Petroleum Geologist at Getech recently represented Team GB Age Group at the European Duathlon Championships which were held…
A Great Get-together in Gateshead
Review of the North East Satellite Applications Centre of Excellence, Annual Conference 2017 Kirsten Fletcher and I hugely enjoyed our…
Frontier Exploration without Drilling a Hole
In today’s world it is easy to find “answers” to difficult questions simply with the press of a button. However,…
Measuring Your GIS Capabilities via Exprodat’s Oil & Gas Benchmark
New Oil & Gas Benchmark Now Live Exprodat, a Getech Group company has been measuring the petroleum industry’s geospatial performance…