Oil and Gas

Human civilization has used oil and gas as its primary fuel source for over a century, and oil and gas will continue to be the main energy source in the global economy for decades to come. New exploratory surveys are constantly being conducted to find new oil and gas reserves on land and offshore. Moving forward, new opportunities such as underwater exploration will also be added to exploratory studies.

In the oil industry, geophysical data plays a crucial role in oil and gas exploration and production. Deciding where to drill requires various layers of information about the study area. Since most oil reserves are buried deep below the Earth's surface, geophysicists facilitate the oil and gas exploration process by creating a clear image of what lies beneath the surface.

Geophysical techniques used for oil exploration employ equipment to measure things like: electrical currents, gravitational and magnetic anomalies, heat flow, geochemical relationships, and density changes from the Earth's depths. Each technique records a set of characteristics that can be used to find hydrocarbons beneath the Earth's surface.