Attention for Andaman
In Southeast Asia, industry attention in recent months has been very much focused on the deep-water Indonesian portion of the Andaman Sea. This is a consequence of the Harbour Energy…
Exploration
Norwegian Continental Shelf not yet creaming
Whilst the call for more frontier exploration and the associated likelihood that bigger fields are being found is getting louder, it is important not to forget that infrastructure-led exploration is…
Promising results in the New São Tomé & Principe frontier
Whilst the operating group have not yet made any substantial announcement (apart from on time and on budget), ANP (the government regulator) has said the well found thin oil pay…
The two options for Calypso
In what is Neptune’s third discovery in six months, following on from Ofelia and Hamlet in the greater Gjøa area, this time oil has been found in the Calypso prospect…
The Orange Basin – An Underexplored Oil Giant?
The recent Venus and Graff oil discoveries have renewed interest in the prospectivity of the Orange Basin, offshore Namibia and South Africa. These two new proven plays calibrate the deepwater…
Sierra Leone licence round extension
The reason Sierra Leone is attracting so much interest is simple; the exciting, extensive hydrocarbon proceptivity and the stable and investable above-ground environment. Sierra Leone has more than 400 km…
Mozambique – a gas nation in development
In August, Bloomberg reported that an LNG tanker was soon to arrive at Eni’s new Floating Liquified Natural Gas Terminal Coral Sul (South), indicating that it will not be long…
Russia – how is the state of play in the upstream industry?
We spoke to Konstantin Sobornov, who runs his own exploration company in Russia to discuss the current situation. “There is definitely a shift in strategic planning when it comes to…
Increasing interest in Côte d’Ivoire
Last April, only one offshore block in Côte d’Ivoire was under negotiation (CI-803). Since then, there must have been increasing activity in the area. During the Côte d’Ivoire country showcase…
Hit and miss, but the Suriname trend stretches east
The well was drilled by the Noble Gerry de Souza drillship between July and August 2022 in 1140 m water. TD was reached at 5,290 m, similar to the 5…
Is there room to explore for gas in Germany?
Oil and gas production in Germany goes back a long time. It was near Hannover, in a village called Wietze, where the first shallow oil production took place in 1859.…
Go west: Deepwater prospectivity in the Côte d’Ivoire Basin
The Tano Basin has been the location of several high-profile discoveries made in recent years with the drilling of the Afina-1X well in Ghana and the discovery and subsequent expansion…