A Play for Oil

The author Tim Daley has worked for more than 30 years in the oil business as a seismic interpreter employed in the quest for hydrocarbons resources around the world. After graduating with geology and geophysics degrees from Oxford and Durham, he has integrated seismic and bore hole information to understand oil plays where it is critical to imagine the story of how the rocks work, out of sight and under our feet, combining to create the conditions to trap hydrocarbons. Extensive travel has included expatriate assignments in the USA, Indonesia, Pakistan, Venezuela and Tunisia and employment has ranged from multinational corporations down to small independents and across the whole industry cycle, from unexplored frontiers to mature producing fields. The time period has spanned several global oil price shocks which are the back drop to in-country political events.

Rocks Work: Geology fundamentals illustrated by student mapping projects.- Oil Play: Explanation of oil geology using examples from the UK and around the globe.- Drilling Reflections: An account of the two main information sources, drilling data and reflection seismic.- Interpretation Times: An insight into the interpretation of seismic data to evaluate hydrocarbon potential.- New Adventures: How oil companies acquire new areas and the travel in pursuit of data.- Prospects for Oil: Evaluation and drilling of new prospects from frontiers to increments.- Energy on Tap: Developing oil and gas fields.- Costing The Earth: Environmental considerations of oil exploration and development activity, including a future of fracking or not.