Kirkuk. A Silent Giant Oilfield
The giant Kirkuk field, discovered in 1927, has had a very chequered history and requires imaginative reservoir engineering methods to return it to optimum productivity. The Kirkuk oilfield is partly…
Exploration Opportunities
Around the world in 59 Stages
Reducing exploration risk through modeling Building Tool-Sets for Global Exploration: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology and Source Rocks Source rocks are a pre-requisite of any petroleum system. Whilst the deposition of a potential…
Beaufort West: new insight into a Frontier Basin
Location of foldout line BW1-2800 within the ION Geophysical BeaufortSPAN™ seismic program: Canada Basin, south western Arctic Ocean. The Alpine, Kuparuk River, and Prudhoe Bay fields are located within the…
Côte d’Ivoire: completing the jigsaw
Base map of central offshore Côte d’Ivoire showing the PGS multiclient seismic data library, together with the location of the four wells discussed in the text. Awaken your structural geologist!…
Towed streamer EM for success
Close-up of Johan Castberg area. Example comparison between the measured resistivity at wells in the Johan Castberg and Caurus areas and the resistivity recovered via anisotropic inversion. See the big…
Caspian Sea: Frontier exploration in the middle Caspian basin
CGG’s study area covers the offshore Middle Caspian Basin within Russia and Kazakhstan. A regional 2D seismic grid has been used to assess the area’s petroleum geology. This CGG multi-client dataset…
South West Barents Sea
Survey area superimposed on the main structural elements and license situation of the western Barents Sea. Geoseismic representation of an inline within the South West Barents Sea fast track – post stack…
Brazil is back in the game
New lights on Santos The prolific pre-salt province in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil is experiencing a renewed hydrocarbons boom. With recent regulatory changes, the ANP has managed to attract some…
SHETLAND ROCKS! Improved sub-basalt structural imaging
Left: Location of the Faroe Shetland Basin (FSB) dataset. Right: FSB dataset line location map. West of Shetland: improved sub–basalt imaging Newly reprocessed long offset seismic data from the Faroe…
Zeus and Zeebries
Zeus and Zeebries: Significant exploration insights High-quality 3D data could provide new exploration opportunities in this highly prospective part of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, where underexplored areas exist within close…
Barents Sea: complete integration of well data and seismic data
A Powerful Integrated Tool Although considered primarily a frontier region, recent discoveries have put the Barents Sea firmly on the map. Large parts of the Barents Sea can be regarded…
Power up! Selecting a 3D dataset for the 2013 licence round offshore Lebanon
Lebanon offshore: Promising play fairways and structures With the opening of the first Lebanese Offshore Round coming up, it is time for companies to assemble a ‘bidding dataset’ to support…