Technological Advancement in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Consideration of the Nodal Seismic System (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783954893942)

Technology has proved its credibility by helping us to combat some of the most important challenges in decades. On a high interest, our yesterday's concerns are now our jubilations today. Also, various innovations that technology is offering our industry today has shown to us clearly that the industry cannot afford to shuttle its today's cares till tomorrow. It is even more interesting that today, creative minds in the industry are already gazing into the future in other to tackle our tomorrow's challenges right from now. All these validate a simple fact that: "the oil and Gas industry is a technology based and innovation driven" (David, 2011). The phase changes and its adaptation is so rapid that if professionals fails to yield to it or feels reluctant to its tingle, such would be dismayed in waiting and may find it stiff in catching up with the transiting train. The thrust of the drive witnessed by the industry in the recent decade is intense. This is wholly responsible to the world's high demand for our commodity (Oil and Gas), our daily venture into the ultra-deepwater exploration, unconventional resource exploration systems which is always beckoning on new and strong techniques. All of these are enough to charge professionals, to be awake to the demands of their fields by yielding their thoughts to the present breakthrough and preparing to face the next decade's challenges One important breakthrough that technology has offered the seismic data acquisition field of recent is the "Nodal Seismic System". The success is currently attracting a great deal of key players from every end of the industry and has kept discussions on over time. The advancement is also known as Cableless, Wireless or Nodal seismic acquisition system, as it may be. It is an improvement over the conventional cabled seismic acquisition system. An overview of this advancement In relation to the challenges it solved has been looked into in his article.

Author: Adeolu Aderoju
ISBN-10: 3954893940
ISBN-13: 9783954893942
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2016
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.08d