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Cuba re-launches offshore oil exploration

BGP

December 12, 2018

Explore Madagascar’s open acreage The West Morondava Basin: Let the bidding commence! After over 100 years of exploration, the offshore part of the West Morondava Basin remains largely underexplored. Only six…

Barents Sea: A first look at new high resolution 3D multicomponent seismic

Rune Sakariassen, Nicola O’Dowd and Sören Naumann, PGS

December 12, 2018

A Vast, Underexplored, Complex Geological Province Brand new, high resolution, 3D multicomponent seismic data from PGS has enhanced the geological understanding of one of the last remaining frontier basins in…

São Tomé and Príncipe

Matt Tyrell, Joshua May and Eric Mueller; PGS, Orlando Pontes; ANP-STP

December 12, 2018

Base map showing the territorial waters of the STP-EEZ together with neighbouring countries. The PGS MultiClient seismic and well datasets are shown together with annotations showing the major fluvial input…

The MSGBC Basin: Where is the next hydrocarbon discovery?

Ben Sayers and Richard Cooke; TGS

December 12, 2018

Why the MSGBC Basin? The MSGBC Basin is ready for something new to help analogue-chasing the next SNE oil field. Prior to 2014, with doubts over the actual commercial success…

Extraordinary hydrocarbon potential Offshore Lebanon

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriquez and Paolo Esestime; Spectrum Geo

December 12, 2018

Extraordinary hydrocarbon potential Offshore Lebanon As Jane Austen might have said: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that exploration companies possessing acreage in the Eastern Mediterranean must be in want…

Côte d’Ivoire: Undiscovered opportunities and new data in open blocks

Christine Roche, Project Geoscientist at PGS

December 10, 2018

PGS modern broadband seismic coverage of Côte d’Ivoire now provides complete coverage of the area from source to sink. Stratigraphy and Tectonic Phases: West Africa Transform Margin (WATM) Figure 1a:…

Utica – Point Pleasant Shale

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma, Hossein Nemati, and James Keay; TGS

December 10, 2018

Location of the TGS 3D surveys in eastern Ohio. Seismic reservoir characterization with efforts at quantitative interpretation: a case study Eastern Ohio has become a new drilling target and the focus…

A new approach to exploration

Aslak Myklebostad; PetroMarker

December 8, 2018

Natalia Discovery Shown by EM Data The discovery well proved about 40m gas column in the Jurassic Garn Formation, with a gas-down-to in the Not Formation at 2,637.8m. The hydrocarbon…

Exploration in the North Atlantic Margin

Bent Kjølhamar, Jan Langhammer, Nick Woodburn, Reidun Myklebust and Simon Baldock; TGS.

December 6, 2018

Figure 1: Location of the TGS Atlantic Margin 3D seismic project in the Norwegian Sea. Figure 2: Top Eocene horizon across the Atlantic Margin North 3D in the Southern Vøring…

Exploring Papua New Guinea

Said Amiribesheli, Dariusz Jablonksi & Andrew Weller; Searcher Seismic

December 5, 2018

Map showing location of the new and reprocessed Searcher (in conjunction with Spectrum) 2D seismic data in the Gulf of Papua, with the location of the foldout line below highlighted…

Norwegian Barents Sea: The Norsel High

Paolo Esestime, Spectrum

December 5, 2018

Figure 2: Map showing seismic location, hydrocarbon discoveries and main geological structures. New prospects generated in the Norsel High The new-found prospectivity in the Norsel High rejuvenates the established oil…

Deepwater West African 3D Seismic

Chris Irons and Richard Bray, SAER Ltd; Peter Abrahamson, Geoex Ltd.

December 4, 2018

Figure 1: (a) Geoex 3D surveys in Equatorial Guinea. (b) Map of recently awarded blocks offshore Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe. Exploring Equatorial Guinea’s distal hydrocarbon systems New…

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