A brief introduction to seismic travel-time tomography
One of the most destructive and well-known earthquakes happened in 2004 off the west coast of northern Sumatra, on the 26th of December...
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The economic aftermath of Covid-19 health crisis
While we all agree that the health crisis comes first and its containment is the world's number one priority, a major question which...
Data science vs. Geophysics: Two intertwined fields
The biggest artificial hole on earth is just approximately 12 km deep (Kola Superdeep Borehole). Therefore geophysicists struggle to...
Successfully defended my PhD Thesis
I am happy to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis with title “Seismic imaging of the Southeast Asia-Australia...
View my recent publication "Direct inversion of S‐P differential arrival‐times for ratio in SE Asia"
Tomographic results for P and S wave velocity at 60, 160, and 260 km depth along with d(Vp/Vs) obtained from inversion of S-P arrival...
LNG terminal in Cyprus in 2030
Rystad Energy firm sees an LNG terminal in Cyprus in 2030. The capabilities of LNG terminal at Idku might be exceeded with new gas...
Four new exploration licenses for Energean in Israel EEZ
Energean Oil and Gas has announced that Israel’s Petroleum Council has approved four new hydrocarbon exploration licenses in Israel EEZ....
Edison to abandon Royee in Israel EEZ
Edison E&P has announced the abandonment of block Royee in the Israel EEZ prior a programmed exploration activity. Noting that Edison...
Hydrocarbons map of EastMed
Current map for the Eastern Mediterranean hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation activities with TOTAL and ENI (in block 7) being the...
Total and Eni expand their presence in Cyprus EEZ
The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus approved the agreement with Total and Eni to assign them the exploration and...
Total to sign new contracts offshore Cyprus
The government of the Republic of Cyprus is examining to announce a new licensing round at the end of 2019 or early 2020. The Energy...
Presidential decree sanctions Egypt-Cyprus natural gas pipeline agreement
CAIRO – 4 June 2019: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued a presidential decree that sanctions an agreement between Egypt and Cyprus on a...
Energean to buy Edison’s oil and gas business in $750m deal
Greek oil and gas company, Energean is becoming one of the biggest independent exploration and production groups listed in London by...
Gradient Descent vs. Normal Equation for Linear Regression problems
Gradient descent gives one way of minimizing J. "Normal equation" performs the minimization explicitly and without resorting to an...
Enhanced geological data interpretation thanks to artificial intelligence platform
Eni announces the first results of a multiyear collaboration using artificial intelligence (AI) by launching the research platform...
Court of audit approves hydrocarbon contracts for the exploration southwest of Crete
The court of audit has approved the hydrocarbon explorations southwest of Crete. The explorations can start as soon as the contracts are...
Tamar (Israel) gas to begin flowing to Egypt this month
Natural gas from Israel's Tamar gas field will begin flowing to Egypt on June 30. Over the weekend, trials were held using the 90...
Data Mining Techniques
1.Classification: This analysis is used to retrieve important and relevant information about data, and metadata. This data mining method...
View my recently published article on "P and S wave travel time tomography of the SE Asia-Australia
The southeast (SE) Asia - Australia collision zone is one of the most tectonically active and seismogenic regions in the world. Here, we...
9.4 Billion dollars income from “Aphrodite” exploitation
An agreement has been reached between Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the consortium Delek-Noble-Shell owning the gas field in block 12...