Technical Library

First Published: First Break, September 2026, by Henri Houllevigue, Susana Tierrablanca, Yermek Balabekov, Olga Brusova, Vi Ly, Meher Gajula, Ben Lasscock and Alejandro Valenciano, TGS

First Published: Offshore Magazine (September 2026)

In a widely publicized report from October 2020, the non-profit organization Carbon Tracker estimated there are over 2.6 million US onshore wells that are abandoned or orphaned and need to be plugged ...

Climate modeling by the International Energy Agency recommends Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as the crucial component to stabilizing global climate. The US Department of Energy recently predicted ...

ARLAS, Analytics Ready LAS, built from the world’s most extensive digital well logs library, has hit the ground running in 2020! TGS started 2019 with zero predicted well logs in inventory but made ...

A certain amount of volatility is baked into the oil industry; boom and bust cycles are to be expected when investing in this sector. However, the confluence of events that have occurred in the first ...

This Wolfcamp B study analyzes more than 3,100 wells across Martin, Howard, Midland, Glasscock, Upton, and Reagan counties using TGS data and ComboCurve’s forecasting and economic modeling. The ...

TGS collects well performance data for every well in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including production history starting in the 1920s and production forecasts tied to completions.

In “Supply Shortage in the Making”, we discussed US oil and gas production outlook in 2021 amid growing concerns of a potential domestic supply shortage. One aspect that will have a direct impact is ...

As a continuation of the Well Intel series, we’re investigating the effect of temporary shut-ins on well performance. Shutting in wells is one of the more drastic approaches to take in response to ...

The economic impacts of the pandemic and ensuing recession in the first half of 2020 are not yet entirely clear. Capital markets are showing signs of recovery, but consumer demand will likely lag for ...

In a previous Well Intel post, ‘Abandoned Wells – How big is the problem, and what can be done?’, we discussed possible alternative uses for end-of-life oil and gas wells. One such use is repurposing ...

In light of recent freezing temperatures in Texas around the one-year anniversary of Winter Storm Uri, we decided to analyze the impacts Uri had on natural gas production and flare volumes at the ...

This analysis provides a detailed evaluation of the Delaware Basin’s 2nd Bone Spring by integrating TGS’s seismic, geological, well, and economic data with ComboCurve’s forecasting platform. It ...

The Permian is typically known to be the powerhouse of Texas oil and gas production, and while unconventional drilling and completions have unlocked massive amounts of hydrocarbons, they’ve also ...

Wireline logs are a fundamental aspect of subsurface property characterization. However, economic constraints often limit data acquisition from specific logs or depth intervals, resulting in ...

The history of the oil industry in the US is riddled with large up and down swings. When times are good there is heavy investment in exploration, drilling, and asset development. When the industry ...

While it is well-known that log data can be used to constrain prestack depth migration (PSDM) model building, it is much less-appreciated that machine-learning (ML) can be leveraged to augment the ...

When it comes to shale drilling, staying in zone is paramount for any drilling engineer and geosteerer. The higher the percentage of a wellbore “in zone,” the better its performance. Well logs and ...

As global economies gradually emerge from the Covid-19-induced contraction, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates an increase in global oil demand of 6% in 2021. The supply side, ...

Earlier this month the Biden administration unveiled a $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal. This wide- ranging bill has generated attention in the energy sector due to high-profile sections ...

Results are imminently expected from UK’s 1st CCS round and interviews are ongoing for the 33rd Exploration round awards. Activity remains high to meet UK’s energy security and energy transition ...

Suriname Shallow Offshore 2 Bid Round 2023-2024 Opened

TGS’ Picanha 3D reprocessing lays foundation for PRIO 100,000 BPD milestone

Reducing Cloud-Storage through Open-Sourced Lossless Compression.

TGS significantly expands saline aquifer coverage for CO2 storage assessment, including eight additional US onshore basins

With oil prices remaining highly volatile there are many forecasts and predictions circulating in the public domain. While many of these forecasts and predictions rely on uncertain assumptions about ...

Brazil is a powerhouse in oil and gas production, ranking as the largest producer in Latin America and home to some of the world’s largest recoverable ultra-deep oil reserves. With a coastline of ...

A look into ChatGPT and its possible future applications. Late 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT and it has been one of the most talked about topics since, including in the oil and gas industry. ChatGPT ...

As Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery methods are gaining steam in the unconventional space, TGS will be releasing an update to the TGS injection dataset to help assess general trends and the ...

Unlocking New Frontier Basins in Brazil’s Oil and Gas Exploration

The Heritage Field in Northeast British Columbia has emerged as one of the more successful unconventional plays in Canada. While the field was originally explored in the mid-1980s, development really ...

2024 Call for Bids

First Published: Starlink Case Studies (August 2026)

Paper submitted to First EAGE/SBGf Workshop on Seismic Processing, by Zargos Masson, Victor Oliveira, Marcel Torretta, Seet Li Young and Jon Burren (TGS), Raoni Alves, Wendel Lopes, Antonio Jorge Sá, ...

Paper submitted to SEG Transforming Energy Exploration: Technology, Sustainability, and Innovation Symposium, by David Little (TGS).

Paper submitted to SEG Transforming Energy Exploration: Technology, Sustainability, and Innovation Symposium, by Deepankar Borgohain, Sougata Haldar and Gunhild Myhr(TGS).

Paper submitted to SEG Transforming Energy Exploration: Technology, Sustainability, and Innovation Symposium, by G. Stock, D. Brookes, O. Brusova, A. Knowles, S. Mannick, M. Roberts, R. Yates J. ...

Paper submitted to SEG Transforming Energy Exploration: Technology, Sustainability, and Innovation Symposium, by Peter Lee, Subodh Notiyal, Amy Knowles, Rachel Collings and Jyoti Kumar (TGS).

Paper submitted to 5th EAGE Marine Acquisition Workshop, by A. Merry, J. Northall (bp), T. Kluever, M. Widmaier and K. Helgebostad (TGS).

Paper submitted to 5th EAGE Marine Acquisition Workshop, by P.E. Dhelie, C. Roalkvam, M. Halvorsen (Aker BP), T. Kluever, A. McKay and V. Hlebnikov (TGS).

Paper submitted to 5th EAGE Marine Acquisition Workshop, by Y. Biryaltseva and B. King (Equinor), D. Anderson and J. Oukili (TGS).

Paper submitted to 5th EAGE Marine Acquisition Workshop, by M. Widmaier, S. Baldock, H. Tabti, M. Cvetkovic and T. Klüver (TGS).

Paper submitted to 5th EAGE Marine Acquisition Workshop, by T. Klüver and M. Widmaier (TGS).

Paper submitted to 5th EAGE Marine Acquisition Workshop, by O.C. Orji, T. Klüver, M. Widmaier and L. Limonta (TGS).