The basin that lacked a final push
As part of a PhD project carried out at Aberdeen University, Laura-Jane Fyfe recently published a paper in Petroleum Geoscience where she and her co-authors assess the prospectivity of the…
Exploration
Liatårnet: a heavy or lightweight?
“How heavy is the oil?” That will probably be the most important question operator Aker BP and partner Lotos E&P Norway (9.74%) will want to be answered with the current…
Equinor continues appraising the Cretaceous play
Field outlines can sometimes be slightly misleading in the sense that a big polygon on a map can leave the impression that a field is huge, whilst in reality the…
The Outer Rovuma Fan
Hunting for petroleum systems in the Western Indian Ocean. After decades of oil and gas exploration, large swathes of the globe remain unexplored. In frontier regions, such as the Western…
Suriname: Demerara Plateau Oil and Gas Potential
Will Suriname’s Demerara Plateau be an exploration hotspot for the coming years? In this article we dive deeper into the region’s geological setting and hydrocarbon potential. Guyana, close to Western…
Pandemic Affects Oil and Gas Licensing Plans
The upstream part of the oil and gas industry has been particularly disrupted with the global impact of the pandemic massively reducing the demand for oil and gas during 2020…
Major Gas Success for Eni in the Mahakam Delta
20 years after the discovery well, Eni has drilled a successful appraisal to the Maha gas field in the mature Mahakam Delta within the Kutei Basin, offshore Indonesia. Eni…
Private Equity Firms Drive UK Oil and Gas Activity
Despite a drop in new exploration and appraisal drilling in the UK offshore sector, the industry remains very buoyant compared to other parts of the world. Since the first hydrocarbons…
GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 3 Out Now!
Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 3 is now available for download. This issue of GEO ExPro focuses on Europe; Robotics and Automation; Unconventional Resources and the Energy Transition.…
Hydrocarbon Hot Spot: North America
Last year, the North American E&P community saw a symbolic negative oil price blink, rig counts and production rates plummeting, a new US administration slapping moratoriums on federal land and…
Australia: Key Farm-in Well Comes Up Dry
BP with partners Cue Energy, Beach Energy and NZOG have completed drilling the Ironbark-1 wildcat in Block WA-359 offshore in the North Carnarvon Basin. BP with partners Cue Energy, Beach Energy and NZOG have completed drilling…
Hydrocarbon exploration in Greenland to stop
Late June, the Greenland Government announced that it will cease issuing new petroleum exploration licences, based on economic calculations as well as the role hydrocarbons play in causing climate change.…