A new arcadia: seismic acceleration of the Nova Scotian Margin
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…
Exploration Opportunities
The rise of Venus in Uruguay’s Pelotas Basin
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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…
NE Mongolia (Tamtsag Basin) Block XX exploitation licence
Upstream projects for the global transition A Mongolian opportunity with local markets, appraisal/development and exploration upside, and generating fewer emissions than coal. Whether the world likes it or not,…
New life for the extended Orange Basin
The Orange Basin – An underexplored oil giant? The Orange Basin offshore Namibia and South Africa The Orange Basin is part of the volcanic-rifted passive margin south of the Walvis…
Exploration opportunities in the Gambia and Senegal
Credit: TGS, GeoPartners. Connecting the shelf to the deepwater A flurry of hydrocarbon exploration activity continues in The Gambia and Senegal, and it is fuelled by drilling successes. The Gambia,…