A big beast makes a big point
3D that’s fast, cheap and good! And all three together in the Hottest basin on Earth So far this year, approximately 18,000 square km of new 3D was acquired in…
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“Cryptic Seismic Clues: Hunting for another source rock in the South Atlantic”
Two for the price of one: Source rocks aplenty fuel South America’s next exploration frenzy Across the globe, explorers are waking from a disturbing dream where the oil and gas…
Fast and slow catastrophes trapping slope and basin floor plays
Fast and slow catastrophes trapping slope and basin floor plays How slumping, sliding and folding of passive margin stratigraphy creates the elements for successful exploration while the latest seismic imaging…
Sands and source rock delivered by the Tangier WAZ3D in the current Nova Scotia Licence Round
Map showing Blocks available in the 2022-2023 Bid Round and available seismic data from Searcher. Evidence-based exploration on the slope of Nova Scotia In his definitive book on the form,…
Revealing new exploration potential onshore Colombia
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…
The gateway to India: OALP-IX offers industry access to East India’s extraordinary hydrocarbon basins
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
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
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…
Offshore Argentina: Tertiary play potential in the Malvinas Basin
Figure 1: Elevation grid and superimposed magnetically derived chronostratigraphic lines, supporting the timing of opening of the Scotia Plate. Searcher’s 19,182 km pre-stack reprocessed seismic data is part of a…
Exploring Papua New Guinea
Map showing location of the new and reprocessed Searcher (in conjunction with Spectrum) 2D seismic data in the Gulf of Papua, with the location of the foldout line below highlighted…