Offshore Uruguay
Uruguay has gained significant interest due to its unique positioning on the conjugate margin with West Africa, in particular offshore Namibia where significant hydrocarbon discoveries have occurred. Also, key…
Exploration Opportunities
Santos Basin: Complex salt structures and pre-salt potential revealed by new CGGVeritas 3D data
New Geological Insights Into the Santos Basin New PSDM 3D seismic reflection data over the highly prolific Santos Basin provides comprehensive insight into, and enables a better understanding of, the…
Exploration potential of deep water offshore Trinidad, Tobago and Barbados
Thrusted Cretaceous to Oligocene stratigraphy below a Tertiary unconformity can be observed proximal west of the islands of Trinidad, Tobago, on the island of Barbados and in the Tobago Basin.…
Improved imaging in Baffin Bay: Learning from experience
Baffin Bay reprocessed The majority of exploration focus has historically been in the central area offshore West Greenland, however since 2007 there has been increased interest in the Baffin Bay…
Offshore Florida: Regional perspective
Paleozoic sedimentary structures are more evident when the line is flattened on a horizon. This line is flattened on the Base of Jurassic, showing a better view of the Paleozoic…
The only complete regional perspective
Comparison of original Kirchhoff migration (left) and the reimaged RTM (right). Note the improved image of base salt and the coherent signal for the subsalt deeper strata. Improved deep imaging…
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…
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…