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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

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 East Mediterranean and probably in Malaysia with Petronas being quite…

Henk Kombrink

April 30, 2024

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, east of the São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) islands, was…

Christian Niño*, Francisco Silva, Diana Rocha, Teresa Martins, Sara Pestana, Martin Zubiri* - GALP

March 25, 2024

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, it said that CNOOC found the world’s largest metamorphic rock…

Henk Kombrink

March 4, 2024

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 well, drilled by the Valaris 106 jack-up in the Berau…

Jonathan Craig - NVentures

March 1, 2024

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 December 2023, with bids due on 31st May 2024. There…

Jonathan Leather - NVentures

February 27, 2024

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 defending large recoverable volumes for Graff, Jonker and Lesedi even…

Peter Elliott - NVentures

February 9, 2024

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 the birthplace of oil exploration and production in the country.…

Henk Kombrink

February 6, 2024

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 example. An early exploration well drilled into the Graben in…

Henk Kombrink

February 5, 2024

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 the Vaca Muerta, the flow of gas will soon stop…

Henk Kombrink

January 29, 2024

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 at Lech flowed at rate of over 20 mmcf/d of…

Gehrig Schultz

January 24, 2024

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 Capella rig in 1207 m water in December 2023, reaching…

Peter Elliott - NVentures

January 9, 2024

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Exploration

Ghana’s next frontier: The Voltaian Basin

The state of global gas exploration

A working petroleum system on purely oceanic crust

CNOOC makes largest offshore hydrocarbon discovery in special rock formation. What is that about?

BP shores up gas reserves West Papua, Indonesia

Sandwiched between two major petroleum provinces, Suriname’s shallow offshore bid round acreage will be popular

New light oil discovery draws attention away from the Orange Basin central axis to northern promise

Oil in the Dammam field overburden – lateral migration or an imperfect seal?

What pressure data can do

Why it is not a slam dunk to ramp up gas production in Bolivia

More wells

Major gas trend drilling campaign to kick off 2024 in the southern Andaman Sea

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