The MSGBC Basin: Where is the next hydrocarbon discovery?
Why the MSGBC Basin? The MSGBC Basin is ready for something new to help analogue-chasing the next SNE oil field. Prior to 2014, with doubts over the actual commercial success…
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Extraordinary hydrocarbon potential Offshore Lebanon
Extraordinary hydrocarbon potential Offshore Lebanon As Jane Austen might have said: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that exploration companies possessing acreage in the Eastern Mediterranean must be in want…
Côte d’Ivoire: Undiscovered opportunities and new data in open blocks
PGS modern broadband seismic coverage of Côte d’Ivoire now provides complete coverage of the area from source to sink. Stratigraphy and Tectonic Phases: West Africa Transform Margin (WATM) Figure 1a:…
Utica – Point Pleasant Shale
Location of the TGS 3D surveys in eastern Ohio. Seismic reservoir characterization with efforts at quantitative interpretation: a case study Eastern Ohio has become a new drilling target and the focus…
A new approach to exploration
Natalia Discovery Shown by EM Data The discovery well proved about 40m gas column in the Jurassic Garn Formation, with a gas-down-to in the Not Formation at 2,637.8m. The hydrocarbon…
Exploration in the North Atlantic Margin
Figure 1: Location of the TGS Atlantic Margin 3D seismic project in the Norwegian Sea. Figure 2: Top Eocene horizon across the Atlantic Margin North 3D in the Southern Vøring…
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…
Norwegian Barents Sea: The Norsel High
Figure 2: Map showing seismic location, hydrocarbon discoveries and main geological structures. New prospects generated in the Norsel High The new-found prospectivity in the Norsel High rejuvenates the established oil…
Deepwater West African 3D Seismic
Figure 1: (a) Geoex 3D surveys in Equatorial Guinea. (b) Map of recently awarded blocks offshore Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe. Exploring Equatorial Guinea’s distal hydrocarbon systems New…
Olympus rising – a step change in North Carnarvon Basin imaging
Figure 1: Location of the North Carnarvon Basin on the Australian North West Shelf and the 20,000 km2 Olympus MC3D. Figure 2: The location of the Olympus 3D relative to…
Exploring West of Shetland: the northern Flett Sub-Basin
Prospectively in the West of Shetland region Prospectivity redefined with recent 3D seismic in this underexplored region. Since 1972, 151 exploration wells have been drilled West of Shetland and discoveries…
The East Shetland Platform
PGS has provided a number of extractions from its 3D multi-client library on the ESP to provide well ties for the UK Oil and Gas Authority’s recently acquired 2D lines, which will be…