Signup for newsletter
My Account
Product has been added to your cart.

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Exploration

No walkover but no walking away

Clément Blaizot
Surrounded by giant gas discoveries, with Tamar, Leviathan, Aphrodite and Karish to the southeast and with Zohr and even more recently Calypso, Glaucus, Cronos and Zeus to the southwest, the…

From near misses to commercial success

Ian Cross – Moyes & Co
The Horn of Africa, comprising Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia holds many ancient geological trends including the failed Karoo and Jurassic and Cretaceous rifts that record the fragmentation of Gondwana…

Somalia: The final frontier?

Kevin Schofield, Katya Casey and Marel Sanchez, Coastline Exploration
At the outset of a project in the area, one has to ask “Why does offshore Somalia remain unexplored?” It is one of the last undrilled frontier basins in the…

It’s the temperature that matters

Henk Kombrink
“The Golden Zone concept and its clear significance for understanding oil and gas occurrence seem not to be widely known within the petroleum industry”, write Paul Nadeau, Shaoqing Sun and…

A major boost for the Kutei Basin

Peter Elliott - NVentures
Eni and partners (Neptune and Agra Energi) have announced a major gas and condensate discovery at the Geng North-1 well in Indonesia. The well, delayed by the pandemic, was drilled…

Did you know that rocks have memory?

Åsmund Drottning, Per Avseth, Tore Nordtømme Hansen, Dig Science AS
The seismic signature of a sedimentary rock is strongly influenced by the geological history of the rock, e.g., the depositional environment, whether it has experienced tectonic burial and uplift, etc.…

De-risking gas saturation

Said Amiri Besheli - KUFPEC, and Panos Doulgeris - DELFT INVERSION
Conventional workflows such as near versus far amplitudes or linear inversions often fail to differentiate between low and high-saturation gas reservoirs, mainly due to the relative lack of sensitivity to…

Grenadier, a turning point for Angola’s pre-salt play?

Peter Elliott - NVentures
TotalEnergies is drilling Grenadier-1, on block 20/11 in the Kwanza basin offshore Angola. The Valaris DS-12 drillship is carrying out the work for TotalEnergies and partner Sonangol in 1500 m…