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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

Offshore Angola: Exploring frontiers and fringes with new and reprocessed seismic

Angola’s continental margin hosts rich petroleum systems that have charged prolific reservoirs, creating a province with over 30 Bbbl of recoverable oil. Production, mainly from the Lower Congo Basin, peaked in 2008 at around 2 MMbbl/d and has since declined…

Matthew Plummer, TGS

August 31, 2026

Momentum behind the frontier Angoche and Save basins

Milton Zibane Natural gas in Mozambique is currently produced from four fields. Three of them, Pande, Temane and Inhassoro, are located onshore in the Mozambique basin, 520 km north of Maputo. The fourth, and most prolific field, Coral, is located…

Mariël Reitsma

August 31, 2026

Hydrocarbon seepage in the Karoo: South Africa’s Shale Gas Project reveals potential

South Africa’s Karoo Basin has long been known for scattered gas shows, oil‑stained fissures and occasional methane emissions from water boreholes. Yet the basin’s broader petroleum potential has remained uncertain. The Shale Gas Research Project, carried out by the Petroleum…

Mariël Reitsma

August 28, 2026

Investment opportunity: Drill-ready Tethys Prospect – onshore California

The Tethys Prospect is a drill-ready conventional oil exploration and development opportunity located along the oil-prolific west side of the San Joaquin Basin in Kern County, California, with an estimated 20 million barrels of oil recoverable potential (P50). The prospect…

Thomas Davis and Pat Gibson

August 27, 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

Matching global explorers with Morocco’s frontier potential

Salim Lahsini Morocco’s Atlantic margin offers a combination of proven petroleum systems and large areas that remain underexplored. The country wants to translate this diversity into clear, investable exploration opportunities. This requires more than technical datasets and conference presentations; it…

Mariël Reitsma

August 20, 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

Ghana’s next frontier: The Voltaian Basin

Michael Aryeetey Hydrocarbon exploration in Ghana is entering a new stage: After two decades of offshore success, attention is shifting inland, towards the vast and little‑understood Voltaian Basin. Michael Aryeetey, Deputy Chief Executive for Exploration and Production at the Ghana…

Mariël Reitsma

August 13, 2026

Benin’s second act: Redevelopment of the historic Sèmè Field

Benin’s upstream sector is entering a new era. After nearly three decades without production, the West African nation is preparing for a revival thanks to the redevelopment of the historic Sèmè field. Akrake Petroleum drilled a successful horizontal well earlier…

Mariël Reitsma

August 6, 2026

Guinea-Conakry: From quiet frontier to regional contender

Guinea-Conakry is among the West African countries actively developing its offshore prospects. Encouraged by discoveries in other parts of MSGBC basin, the country is now gearing up for the next phase. The progression is driven by improved geological understanding, strengthened…

Mariël Reitsma

July 24, 2026

From vision to discovery

The Niger Delta has delivered many of West Africa’s defining hydrocarbon discoveries, but every so often a well comes along that exceeds expectations. JK‑004 marks the first major success under Renaissance’s refreshed exploration strategy. The well was drilled in shallow…

Mariël Reitsma

July 15, 2026

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

Offshore Angola: Exploring frontiers and fringes with new and reprocessed seismic

Momentum behind the frontier Angoche and Save basins

Hydrocarbon seepage in the Karoo: South Africa’s Shale Gas Project reveals potential

Investment opportunity: Drill-ready Tethys Prospect – onshore California

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

Matching global explorers with Morocco’s frontier potential

Exclusive access to Venezuela’s next offshore play

Ghana’s next frontier: The Voltaian Basin

Benin’s second act: Redevelopment of the historic Sèmè Field

Guinea-Conakry: From quiet frontier to regional contender

From vision to discovery

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