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Developing the Kuda Tasi and Jahal discoveries offshore Timor-Leste

Aaron Bond and Shane Westlake, Finder Energy with acknowledgements to Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher, for their input

March 5, 2025

Continuing the exploration and development success of the Laminaria High In 2024, Finder Energy underwent a transformational change, acquiring the rights to develop several oil discoveries on the Laminaria High…

Revitalising geothermal exploration: A path toward efficiency and sustainability

GeoAlliance

February 26, 2025

On behalf of the University of Bucharest, the implementation team was formed by Florina Ţuluca, Dumitru Ioane, Lucian Petrescu, Iulian Popa, Lonelia Panea, Ioan Munteanu, Nicolae Cruceru, Mihaela Roca, Mihaela…

Pacific oil rush: The sequel – and this time it’s Ecuador

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher

January 7, 2025

Offshore Ecuador as the sweet spot for oil exploration It is about time to conclude that a single gas field does not do the prospective nature of Ecuador enough justice…

Exploring deeper in Uruguay: Could Namibia’s successful Cretaceous play be chased in Uruguay’s deepwater?

Roberto Juncken, Liam Hunt, Zhiping Yang, Viridien and Bruno Conti, Pablo Gristo and Pablo Andres Rodriguez, ANCAP

December 13, 2024

Figure 2. Location and coverage map of Viridien’s 3D seismic reimaging program offshore Uruguay. Deepwater Uruguay: Reducing uncertainties in the Cretaceous stratigraphic play with an improved TL-FWI velocity model FWI…

South Atlantic – a raging bonfire of memes

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

October 21, 2024

Namibia – Brazil: Where memes collide and where we go next From outdated to new memes: How recent discoveries in Namibia’s Orange Basin are shaping exploration strategies for Brazil’s Pelotas…

Côte d’Ivoire – The new West African exploration hotspot

Madhurima Bhattacharya, Misha Isakov, Paolo Gabrielli, Carl Watkins and Dan Carruthers, Viridien

October 7, 2024

Location and coverage map of Viridien’s 16,000 km2 multi-client PSDM re-imaging program along the Côte d’Ivoire margin showing current held acreage, fields and recent discoveries. A new regional framework for…

Exploration of the Papuan Plateau: How revolutionary geophysical technology reveals new seismic insights

Lauren Found, Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Helen Debenham, Searcher

September 16, 2024

Searcher’s Papuan Plateau 2D seismic. Holding out for a hero: How evolving geophysical technology revolutionised a Frontier Basin A lot can change in twenty years. In 2004, the Nintendo DS…

Unlocking Gulf energy: The impact of advanced seismic technologies on exploration

Andrey Bogachev, TGS

September 9, 2024

Finding treasures beneath the waves: The role of advanced seismic technologies in the Gulf of Mexico The Gulf Of Mexico (GOM) has long been a cornerstone of America’s energy landscape,…

With ‘real-time’ reservoir management now within reach, energy companies are seeing they simply have no choice but to adapt to the growing technology landscape

Abdulqadir Cader, Harry Whittaker and Ciaran Collins, Geoteric

September 3, 2024

Basemap: Location of the UKCS 3D Seismic Merge – Central North Sea (polygon) with an associated High Definition Frequency Decomposition RGB colour blend along time slice 1960 ms. Why the…

T&T deep water bid round: A gateway to energy opportunities

Jeniffer Masi, Geoex MCG, Donna-Marie Lezama, Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries, Trinidad and Tobago

August 26, 2024

Trinidad and Tobago: A vital 2024 deepwater frontier The Caribbean Atlantic Margin Deep Imaging seismic survey (CAMDI) spans 16,348 km with long offsets (12 km) and a deep record length…

Orpheus in the Mialara Sub-Basin

Karyna Rodrigues, Lauren Found and Neil Hodgson, Searcher

July 8, 2024

Searcher’s Philippines 2D seismic. East of Eden: The Mialara basin, the Philippines’ last low-risk frontier for exploration greatness Arguably the first subterranean explorer to return from the untrodden lands below…

New plays in Southern Santos Basin revealed by large-scale, high quality 3D multi-client seismic

Milos Cvetkovic and Francisco Colina, TGS

July 1, 2024

Figure 2: Map showing extent of Santos 3D Sul project in relationship with other TGS 2D and 3D programs. Leveraging integrated workflows and fast track data for prospect evaluation during…

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