Licencing Update: Sharjah, UAE
In 2018, Sharjah’s first onshore licencing round opened, offering companies 30-year contracts in an area with a production history demonstrating a 90% recovery factor. Map showing location of the Sharjah…
Exploration
Exploration Update: Offshore USA
Shell encountered more than 244m of net hydrocarbon pay in the Mississippi Canyon Block; exploration update Gulf of Mexico Basin, offshore USA. Hydrocarbons Discovered in Mississippi Canyon Block, Offshore USA…
Exploration Update: Offshore Angola
Eni has made a new offshore oil discovery in Angola; exploration update offshore Angola. Map showing location of the Kalimba-1 well, offshore Angola. Eni has made a new offshore oil…
Exploration Update: Australia
The Dorado-1 well discovers more oil in the Triassic Caley Sandstone Reservoir and gas condensate in the Baxter Member; exploration update for offshore Australia. More Hydrocarbons Discovered Offshore Australia Map…
Strike Slip Tectonism and the Evolution of East Africa
Strike slip faults can extend for thousands of kilometres, and envelop many of the typical geological structures we use in basin exploration to define different petroleum play systems in particular…
Ichnofabrics: An Invaluable Tool for Sedimentary Geologists
Trace fossils and ichnofacies can compensate for a lack of preserved sedimentary structures in core and outcrop studies. Modern Advanced Sedimentological Core and Outcrop Studies Bioturbation of sediments is synonymous…
Surface Geochemical Exploration
A newly developed method for detecting petroleum seepage using surface geochemical exploration. Changes in the physical and chemical properties due to petroleum seepage. © ORG Geophysical AS The use…
Time to be optimistic?
A panel of professionals representing the oil and gas companies, service companies, the financial sector and academia debated the question “is it time to be optimistic?” and the future for…
Exploration Update: Morocco
SDX Energy has made a gas discovery on the onshore Lalla Mimouna exploration permit in the Gharb Basin, northern Morocco. Gas Discovery Offshore Morocco SDX Energy has made a gas…
Licencing Update: India
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announces a new Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP). India Announces New Hydrocarbon & Exploration Policy India currently imports 80% of its oil needs. As a…
Sand Injectites in the Viking Graben, North Sea
PGS superior GeoStreamer PURE pre-stack broadband seismic imaging reveals super producer hydrocarbon discoveries in the North Sea Viking Graben injectite structures. The North Sea Viking Graben Broadband data can reveal…
Hammerfest Basin: Petroleum Geology
New 3D seismic data provides fresh insight into the future oil & gas potential of the prolific Hammerfest Basin in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Exploration Overview of the Hammerfest Basin…