Joint petroleum development area Timor Sea
Treaty brings fresh enthusiasm The signing of a boundary dispute treaty between Australia and East Timor in 2005 has resulted in a resurgence in exploration vigour, both in the JPDA…
Exploration Opportunities
Ghana/Sierra Leone lookalike plays in Northern Brazil
Brazil Equatorial Margin Shows Promise As the Equatorial Atlantic opened, major oceanic fracture zones, ranging from the Chain Fracture Zone (FZ) in the south to the Monrovia FZ in the…
Central North Sea: regional dataset supports continued exploration
Recent Discoveries in The Central North Sea The Central North Sea (CNS) has been a focus of hydrocarbon exploration and production for decades. Even now the area remains a hive…
South-Western Barents Sea: Improved imaging with long-offset data
Norwegian Barents Sea Regional survey (NBR) includes data acquired in 2006-2010 (black lines) and the 2011 (red lines). The gray zone indicates approximate position of the regional line. Exploration in…
Eastern Mediterranean – The hot new exploration region
Looking offshore The Eastern Mediterranean has been one of the largest commercial and trading hubs of the entire EAME region for many centuries. More recently, during the last 20 years,…
The NE Greenland Continental Margin
Seismic line 3 showing the continuation of a thick Mesozoic basin beneath lava flows of the Northeast Greenland Volcanic Province. The southern extent of the Danmarkshavn Basin quite clearly underlies the northern…
New insights into Australia’s Bight Basin
The eastern Bight Basin showing the 2009 acreage S09-5 S09-6 Ceduna Sub-basin release area, sub-basins, wells, and 2007 dredge sample locations. Index map of the 315 km long foldout line shown…
Carnarvon Basin: Continuing exploration success with Eendracht 3D
Map showing project area and nearby oil and gas fields. Bathymetric image courtesy of Geoscience Australia. Structural Cross section: Exmouth Plateau to Peedamullah Shelf. Companies unite for Carnarvon Exploration Cube…
Two Frontier Basins Come to Light
Off the western Irish coast, new regional 2D seismic data is providing key information on the petroleum potential of a large and underexplored area. The roughly south-east to north-west trending…
Western Florida: A new exploration frontier in the US Gulf of Mexico
A new perspective on rifting Long-offset seismic reflection data over the western Florida shelf and eastern Gulf of Mexico provide new insights into local geology, illuminate new exploration plays and…
Pre-salt basins identified in Gabon deepwater area
The section around the Tupi discovery offshore Brazil (far left) compares with the section (near left) from another line in South Gabon. Note that the Tupi example is a Reverse…
Oil finders use seismic analogues
Chevron has big ambitions in the North Atlantic Volcanic Margin. They believe the region can hold significant resource and be a major growth area for the Company for years to…