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The NE Greenland Continental Margin

Menno G. Dinkelman, James W. Granath and Richard Whittaker

December 6, 2010

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

Thomas Smith

September 2, 2010

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

Barrett Cameron, Fugro

August 4, 2010

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

Ian Davison, GEO International Ltd.; Menno G. Dinkelman and Wouter Kool, ION’s G

June 5, 2010

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

James Pindell, ION Geophysical Corporation and Tectonic Analysis Ltd; Barbara Radovich and Brian W. Horn, ION Geophysical Corporation

May 22, 2010

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

Jim Martin, Steve Toothill, cggveritas and Rufin Moussavou, Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures, Gabon

December 16, 2009

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

Halfdan Carstens

July 16, 2009

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…

The Canadian Beaufort Sea

Thomas Smith

June 16, 2009

Line 5600 is the most seaward ‘strike’ line in the ArcticSPAN Beaufort survey. The 547-km-long line shows the variable basin architecture of the Canadian Arctic passive margin (vertical exaggeration is…

Offshore Mid-Norway

Ingvild Ryggen Carstens

May 21, 2009

Flatspot within the Cretaceous on the Gjallar Ridge, (close-up of the rectangle on seismic). The seismic line is acquired in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea covering tectonic elements from…

The Russian Chukchi Sea

V. Verzhbitsky, E. Frantzen, T. Savostina, A. Little, S. D. Sokolov and M. I. Tuchkova

May 21, 2009

With little seismic data, and no wells, the assessment of the Russian Chukchi Sea depends largely on field work and outcrop studies on the Chukotka Peninsula on the northeastern shore…

The Norwegian Barents Sea

Tore Nordtømme Hansen, Senior Geophycisist; Fugro

May 20, 2009

An intriguing seismic example of shallow gas with a possible flat spot. Could this be a new prospect in the Barents Sea? Outcrops on the Svalbard archipelago make excellent reference…

Hunting the Pre-Salt

Jim Martin, Steve Toothill, CGGVeritas and Rufin Moussavou Direction Generale de

April 6, 2009

There is now growing industry excitement in anticipation of the forthcoming Gabonese Licensing Round. The Round is increasingly being hailed as one of the best opportunities in many years to…

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