The state of global gas exploration
“If we look back at the years before the pandemic and the Ukraine invasion, the only countries where we saw a consistent search for gas were the countries around the…
Exploration
A working petroleum system on purely oceanic crust
*Christian Niño currently works at Petronas and Martin Zubiri works at Pan American Energy. For a long time, exploring for hydrocarbons in the deep waters of the Gulf of Guinea,…
CNOOC makes largest offshore hydrocarbon discovery in special rock formation. What is that about?
Last week, I was struck by a headline published by media outlet OGV. It read: CNOOC makes world largest offshore hydrocarbons discovery in special rock formation. Reading through the article,…
BP shores up gas reserves West Papua, Indonesia
BP reportedly made a significant new offshore gas discovery in the large West Papua Berau PSC, Indonesia, with the Kepe-Kepe-1 sidetrack, according to oil and gas regulator SKK Migas. The…
Sandwiched between two major petroleum provinces, Suriname’s shallow offshore bid round acreage will be popular
The second shallow offshore bid round in Suriname was launched in November 2023 at the ICE Conference in Madrid. Management Presentations and Virtual Data Rooms have been available since 18th…
New light oil discovery draws attention away from the Orange Basin central axis to northern promise
Reports continue to come in from the Namibia Orange Basin drilling campaigns of Shell, TotalEnergies and Galp, lighting up this enormous Cretaceous delta basin for future production potential. Shell are…
Oil in the Dammam field overburden – lateral migration or an imperfect seal?
Next week, I’ll be attending the IPTC Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It made me look at the local geology of the area, only then to realise that Dammam is…
What pressure data can do
The ENE trending Rankin High is dissected by a series of sub-parallel Lower to Middle Jurassic basins, of which the Searipple Graben to the west of NW Rankin is an…
Why it is not a slam dunk to ramp up gas production in Bolivia
Bolivia is still a gas-exporting country, with Brazil and Argentina being the two customers. But, with production on a long-term decline, and with Argentina now developing its own resource in…
More wells
High-impact New player MCF will drill two high-impact wells in Germany in Q1 2024. One will be a development well in the Lech area Bavaria, Germany. A previously drilled well…
Major gas trend drilling campaign to kick off 2024 in the southern Andaman Sea
Mubadala, with UK partner Harbour Energy, has recorded a multi-TCF gas discovery at Layaran 1 on the South Andaman Block, offshore northern Indonesia. Layaran 1 was drilled by the West…
A unique well at a unique time
“It is easy to reconstruct the rifting and drifting history between South America and Africa. Similarly, it is straightforward to piece together the extensional history between Norway and Greenland. But…