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While 3-D seismic imaging is now a tool of choice for independent oil and gas producers, it is still considered by them to be expensive and time-consuming, says a recently published report on future technologies required to help independents keep domestic oil and gas supplies coming.
What's more, says the study, Visions of the Future: Technology and Invention Needs of the Independent Petroleum Industry, better borehole seismic and crosshole tomography is "desperately" needed to increase recovery in known reservoirs through better imaging.
According to the study, published this month by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), drilling, logging and …