Besides the usual EAGE News and latest Industry News, First Break May starts off with a News Feature on Austria's new earth observatory dedicated to Victor Conrad.

This month's Special Topic is Rock Physics and Formation Evaluation. The articles are What makes the wiggle waggle: a perspective on rock physics; Rock physics and reservoir characterization of a calcitic-dolomitic sandstone reservoir; Correcting sonic logs for shale anisotropy: a case study in the Forties field; Eagle Ford shale reservoir properties from digital rock physics; Automated lithology extraction from core photographs.

The Technical Articles include: Making seismic data come alive, Seismic monitoring of an old underground blowout - 20 years later and 3D petroleum systems modelling of the North German Basin.