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Revealing new exploration potential onshore Colombia

Searcher UK & AGT

March 6, 2023

Location of area of interest and data available for Searcher’s reprocessing project onshore Colombia. Shale or Salt – diapiric dance onshore Colombia Despite having positive well results in the 1920’s…

Gippsland Basin, Australia: new data provides compelling insights in unexplored areas

Guest Author

January 16, 2023

Gippsland legacy data (left) comparison with CGG’s newly acquired and imaged 3D data (right). Example from deep-water area demonstrates significant uplift with longer cable lengths, utilizing P/Z components and the…

The gateway to India: OALP-IX offers industry access to East India’s extraordinary hydrocarbon basins

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December 19, 2022

Accessing a seat at the L0w-carbon energy table on India’s Eastern Margin In June 2022, the DGH India announced the OALP Bid Round IX (2022/3) Licence Round which includes 9…

A new arcadia: seismic acceleration of the Nova Scotian Margin

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez, Peter Hoiles, Julia Davies and George Kovacic; Searcher Geodata UK Ltd

November 18, 2022

Re-imagining the proven hydrocarbon basins offshore Nova Scotia In 1958 Parke Dickey wrote, “We usually find oil in new places with old ideas. Sometimes, also, we find oil in an…

The rise of Venus in Uruguay’s Pelotas Basin

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November 15, 2022

Uruguay plays Namibia on number 1 court The “Most interesting Basin in the World” ball has been batted across the Atlantic regularly for the last 30 years. Early deep-water success…

The most advanced datasets offshore Barbados and T&T

Jeniffer Masi, Jeroen Hoogeveen, Geoex MCG Ltd. Nick Tanushev, John Walker, Alexander Mihai Popovici, Z-Terra Inc

November 2, 2022

Map showing the CAMDI and Barbados surveys, and the displayed seismic line. A new and improved velocity model for the Southeastern Caribbean Generate powerful insights for the 2022 Barbados and…

The striking similarities between Namibia and Brazil’s conjugate margins

Guest Author

October 27, 2022

Regional seismic lines indicate that the Pelotas Basin in Brazil contains the same play ingredients as the Orange Basin in Namibia where the Venus discovery was recently made.

Potential prospectivity identified in the Orphan Basin

Guest Author

October 14, 2022

Joint PGS/TGS library. The Blomidon survey is shown in orange and the PGS Ultima test area covers 900 sq. km of that survey. The survey is a part of…

Baleine discovery: Côte D’Ivoire’s exploration “Black Swan”

Javier Martin, formerly CGG

October 10, 2022

The Tano Basin – revealing late cretaceous depositional styles in a frontier basin A recent seismic stratigraphic analysis demonstrates the presence of key petroleum system elements and the potential to…

UK Mid North Sea High: defining and de-risking exploration in the Zechstein Play

Rosie Andrews, Dale Cameron, Emily Kay and Jonathan Denly; ION

September 19, 2022

Figure 1: A) Location map showing Phases 1, 2 and 3 of the ION MNSH Prime 3D program. B) Interim depth section across Phase 2 of the ION MNSH Prime…

Accurate Reservoir Attributes Delivered with GeoStreamer X in the South Viking Graben, Norway

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September 2, 2022

Illustrated here are the two GeoStreamer X surveys (2019 southern polygon and 2020 northern polygon), the rockAVO wells used in this study and the random line for the main seismic…

Chasing the many plays of the Mauritanian Margin

Elisabeth Gillbard, Senior Geologist, ION Paul Bellingham, VP New Ventures, Eastern Hemisphere, ION

August 14, 2022

An overview map of the Mauritanian Margin. PSDM transverse with velocity overlay through the Mauritania 3D data, showing the syn-rift section (including allochthonous and partially migrated Triassic salt, deposited in…

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