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Using new data to unlock prospectivity in the Philippines

Figure 1: Philippines and fields, discoveries, and dataset as mentioned in the text. Odysseus of the Philippines “Sing, O Muse, of the basins hidden beneath the seas of the Philippines, of oil and gas-soaked reefs that rise as towers beneath…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

November 3, 2026

Côte d’Ivoire: Reimaged datasets provide new geological insights within an exploration hotspot

Figure 2: Location map showing Viridien’s seismic coverage (CDI23: 6,434 km2 / CDI24: 2,978 km2 – reimaged datasets; and CDI25: 6,555 km2 where reimaging is underway), together with selected wells, hydrocarbon fields and license blocks in the Tano Basin, Côte…

Graham Cooke and Paolo Gabrielli, Viridien

October 27, 2026

Equatorial Guinea: Douala and Rio Muni risk reduction

Figure 1: Map of the AOI and outline of the blocks undergoing reprocessing. DW-FWI and MP-FWI to deliver the margin’s most advanced datasets Frontier meets opportunity – high operator interest Exploring in frontier domains is seldom offered the benefit of…

Mike Powney, Geoex MCG, Julian Sherriff and Stephen Doyle, DUG Technology

October 19, 2026

The deep-water architecture of northern Sierra Leone: A tale of two oceans

Figure 1: The new Northern Sierra Leone survey in the context of the western section of the WATM highlighting it’s location in the transition between transform and extensional rift segments. New licensing activity from the last 12 months is also…

Ben Sayers, GeoPartners, Paul Bellingham, BGP International, and Ian Bulley, PVE Consulting

September 23, 2026

Gravitating towards discoveries in Angola’s onshore Kwanza Basin

Unlocking pre-salt potential through integrated airborne geophysics Angola location map. Oil production in Angola began in the onshore Kwanza Basin, where early discoveries such as Benfica, Tobias and Quenguela North were made on seismic datasets acquired during the 1960s to…

Nithul Udayan, Christian Richards and Jonathan Watson, Metatek Group; Charles Thomas, Striped Horse

September 16, 2026

Seeing the unseen: New 3D seismic insights from the deepwater Pará-Maranhão Basin

Pará–Maranhão Basin: New insights from PAMA 3D seismic New PAMA 3D seismic unlocks clearer imaging and reveals significant untapped hydrocarbon potential in Brazil’s Pará–Maranhão Basin Figure 2: Sweetness attribute extraction from interpreted Cenozoic surface showing the basin’s main features (depositional…

Kyle Reuber, Derek Unger, Pedro Zalan, Henri Houllevigue, Kenneth Shipper, TGS

September 9, 2026

The Keta Basin: Ghana’s deepwater frontier edges back into focus

The Keta Basin – a basin with familiar geological DNA The East Keta acreage lies in the central portion of the Accra-Keta-Benin basin, formed during the Middle Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic. Geologically, the basin shares some similarities with…

Dave McGurk, Heritage Oil Exploration & Production, Ghana

September 1, 2026

Poised for passion: The race for riches in Equatorial Guinea’s deepwater

Smart licensing in Equatorial Guinea New awards necessitate the availability of a new regionally consistent depth-imaged seismic framework Figure 1: New license awards: ENI (purple), Galp (green), Chevron (orange) and ConocoPhilips (red). In 2025, Searcher reprocessed approximately 10,500 km of…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

August 25, 2026

Exclusive access to Venezuela’s next offshore play

Venezuela Offshore Multi-Phase Exploration Program, via exclusive multi-client agreement with the Ministry of Hydrocarbons (MINHID). Venezuela offshore: A basin re-entering the global stage Proven discoveries, established infrastructure and newly reprocessed seismic data are providing a clearer understanding of Plataforma Deltana,…

Mike Powney, Jeniffer Masi and George Baba, Geoex MCG; Julian Sherriff and Stephen Doyle, Dug Technology

August 18, 2026

Halo oils, tight-rock saturation, and production allocation: What the North American playbook can and can’t tell the next set of unconventional basins

Halo oils and the limits of the source-rock map The textbook example is the Permian Basin. The Woodford (Late Devonian) and the Barnett (Mississippian) are two of many principal sources, but the oils they generated do not always stay near…

Graham Spence, GeoMark Research

June 24, 2026

A Cenomanian- Turonian source rock adventure in the Pelotas Basin

Searcher and Shearwater’s 16,500 km2 3D in the Pelotas Basin, southern Brazil. Hunting for Cenomanian-Turonian source rocks in the South Atlantic Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, key risk elements to any play (source, reservoir and trap) need to be…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

June 9, 2026

AI-driven integration for deeper subsurface insights

The state of geoscience today: Challenges & opportunities The rise of ai in subsurface workflows Subsurface characterization has long relied on expert interpretation of subsurface rock samples, well logs, and seismic data. As datasets have become larger, and domain experts…

Earth Science Analytics

June 5, 2026

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