Exploration Update – Myanmar
Successful Appraisal In late July 2017, Woodside Energy (Myanmar), a wholly owned subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum Ltd, is understood to have suspended the gas-bearing Pyi Thit 1 wildcat after the…
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Barents Sea South East: What’s Next?
Advanced imaging in combination with regional rock physics analysis across the Haapet Dome suggests high porosity reservoirs in the Jurassic and a potential for prospectivity in the Triassic.
Deep Offshore Exploration in Greece
Newly processed seismic will uncover hydrocarbon resources hidden offshore Greece Recent interest in the areas south-west and west of Crete and in the Ionian Sea between Greece and southern Italy…
The Angle of the North
Shallow water oil is hidden in plain sight in North Gabon The 5,000 km2 of open acreage in shallow water off North Gabon sits adjacent to the site of one…
Exploration Update – UK
Basement Discovery for Hurricane Basement specialist Hurricane Energy announced in December that it had made a significant fractured basement discovery with well 205/26b-A on its Lincoln prospect, about 160 km…
North West Africa Leads Exploration
Over the last two years companies exploring North West Africa have seen a high value of return. This regional update is brought to you by Rystad Energy. Conventionally, African exploration…
Successful Alta appraisal well
Lundin Norway has successfully completed the drilling and production testing of Alta appraisal well 7220/11-4 (Alta-4) in the southern Barents Sea.
Injectites discovered in the Barents Sea
3D-data from the Sørvestnaget Basin demonstrates post-depoositional remobilisation and injection og Middle Eocene sandstones.
Exploring Rockall
A Renaissance or a Dark Age? The increasing maturity of the North Sea is forcing explorers west, towards the frontier Northern Atlantic Margin in search of the next oil province.…
The ‘Gatwick Gusher’ – Fact or Fiction?
The Horse Hill discovery in England lies in an area considered rich in hydrocarbons but which has been ignored for decades. With the help of geologist Chris Pullan we look…
Hiding in the Basement
Following a string of exploration successes, Robert Trice of Hurricane Energy believes that, with the correct data, only imagination is needed to unlock the UK’s huge basement resource potential. Ed’s…
Exploration Update – USA
Mississippi Canyon Discovery On 28 July 2016, Shell announced that it had made a hydrocarbon discovery with the Fort Sumter discovery well (G08831 1), situated in the 23 km2 Mississippi…