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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

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

“Seeking the Sweet Spot in offshore Ecuador’s Sweet Shop”

Searcher use of modern processing algorithms to unleash the hidden sweetness in Ecuador’s legacy offshore seismic Setting the scene Figure 1: Offshore Ecuador Main Tectonic Elements. The destructive margin setting for Ecuador’s northern offshore margin has its own complexity in…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

April 22, 2026

Inside every Basin you know is another Basin you haven’t met

Suriname’s north west sub-basin: An extension to the Golden Lane “Trendology” is often derided as an exploration strategy until it is apparent that a trap style in a regionally working play system is in fact repeating, and then everyone jumps…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher; Genevieve Hirchfeld, Dheeraj Biharie, Mitch Jie A Looi, Vanisha Chedi, Sharista Kisoensingh and Nohar Poeketi, Staatsolie

March 17, 2026

Sweetness and light in Oman’s Indian Ocean

Bringing the light to Oman’s India Ocean hydrocarbon-rich future Karyna Rodriguez describes how improved data resolution facilitating new technological inquiry in Oman’s Indian Ocean is turning “flickering shadows on the cave wall” into high-definition images of unexpected source and reservoir…

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher

January 13, 2026

Equatorial Guinea: Time to shine…again!

Blue skies over Malabo Time for Equatorial Guinea’s next day in the sun Figure 1: License blocks in EG. Equatorial Guinea, “EG”, is a unique land in a myriad of ways, with the capital of Malabo on Bioko Island in…

Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found and Neil Hodgson, Searcher

October 22, 2025

Onset of maturity: A tool for getting your oil finding game on

Decoding the spatial correlation of pockmark evolution and oil discoveries Integrating fluid flow indicators, seismic DHI, and source rock modelling to reduce exploration risk In 1752, at the height of the Age of Reason, Erich Pontoppidan, a Danish theologist, wrote,…

Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found and Neil Hodgson, Searcher

September 22, 2025

The future has arrived

Figure 1: Location of the 3D seismic datasets acquired between 2022 and 2024 in the Orange and Pelotas Basins. Contourites: When everything going sideways saves the day Though complex in detail, hybrid systems become clearer at scale – modern 2D…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

June 10, 2025

Deepwater exploration: It’s the hope that keeps us here

New technologies for deepwater So, where do you look for billions of barrels of oil and gas equivalent, after really smart and determined humans built a civilization out of looking really hard, everywhere they could reach for a hundred years?…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

April 23, 2025

Developing the Kuda Tasi and Jahal discoveries offshore Timor-Leste

Continuing the exploration and development success of the Laminaria High In 2024, Finder Energy underwent a transformational change, acquiring the rights to develop several oil discoveries on the Laminaria High in the northernmost Bonaparte Basin, Timor-Leste. Previously, the successful global…

Aaron Bond and Shane Westlake, Finder Energy with acknowledgements to Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher, for their input

March 5, 2025

Pacific oil rush: The sequel – and this time it’s Ecuador

Offshore Ecuador as the sweet spot for oil exploration It is about time to conclude that a single gas field does not do the prospective nature of Ecuador enough justice Figure 1. Searcher’s legacy dataset including Phase 1 reprocessing project…

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher

January 7, 2025

South Atlantic – a raging bonfire of memes

Namibia – Brazil: Where memes collide and where we go next From outdated to new memes: How recent discoveries in Namibia’s Orange Basin are shaping exploration strategies for Brazil’s Pelotas Basin The father of modern macroeconomics John Maynard Keynes wrote…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

October 21, 2024

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

A Cenomanian- Turonian source rock adventure in the Pelotas Basin

“Seeking the Sweet Spot in offshore Ecuador’s Sweet Shop”

Inside every Basin you know is another Basin you haven’t met

Sweetness and light in Oman’s Indian Ocean

Equatorial Guinea: Time to shine…again!

Onset of maturity: A tool for getting your oil finding game on

The future has arrived

Deepwater exploration: It’s the hope that keeps us here

Developing the Kuda Tasi and Jahal discoveries offshore Timor-Leste

Pacific oil rush: The sequel – and this time it’s Ecuador

South Atlantic – a raging bonfire of memes

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