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Chasing the many plays of the Mauritanian Margin

An overview map of the Mauritanian Margin. PSDM transverse with velocity overlay through the Mauritania 3D data, showing the syn-rift section (including allochthonous and partially migrated Triassic salt, deposited in…

NE Mongolia (Tamtsag Basin) Block XX exploitation licence

  Upstream projects for the global transition A Mongolian opportunity with local markets, appraisal/development and exploration upside, and generating fewer emissions than coal. Whether the world likes it or not,…

New life for the extended Orange Basin

The Orange Basin – An underexplored oil giant? The Orange Basin offshore Namibia and South Africa The Orange Basin is part of the volcanic-rifted passive margin south of the Walvis…

Exploration opportunities in the Gambia and Senegal

Credit: TGS, GeoPartners. Connecting the shelf to the deepwater A flurry of hydrocarbon exploration activity continues in The Gambia and Senegal, and it is fuelled by drilling successes. The Gambia,…

Energy opportunity: Offshore Jamaica

Figure 1: Generalised map showing the Walton Morant Licence area, the identified prospectivity, well locations and seismic coverage. Geoseismic cross-section A–A’ is shown in Figure 7. Figure 2: A prominent…

Offshore Oman: stunning hydrocarbon geology from a closing ocean

Location map showingposition of composite line. Searcher.   Offshore Oman Unexplored and tantalisingly prospective. The Eastern Oman Mountains are widely known as an ophiolite range of rugged and dramatic beauty,…

Northern North Sea: a dual-azimuth solution

Figure 1: Overview map.The Northern North Sea is very active for oil and gas exploration with several commercial discoveries made over recent years. CGG’s Northern Viking Graben (NVG) multi-client survey…

From agua caliente (‘hot water’) to aceite caliente! (‘hot oil!’)

Please note: due to online file size limits we have had to scale down the resolution of this foldout. You can find the higher resolution version on pp42-46 of GEO ExPro…

Improving 3D images

A deep, structurally complex carbonate reservoir offshore Philippines has been imaged with great clarity and resolution, despite the severely rugose water bottom and stratigraphically complex overburden. This has been accomplished…