The East Shetland Platform and Mid North Sea High
An introduction to the Devonian-Paleogene prospectivity of the key areas of interest for the UKCS 29th Frontier Licensing Round. The East Shetland Platform (ESP) and Mid North Sea High (MNSH)…
Exploration
Exploration Update – Tanzania
Tanzania: Largest Onshore Discovery Although originally discovered in April 2015, recent investigations of the Mambakofi 1 gas discovery in the onshore Ruvu Basin in Tanzania have shown it to be…
Exploration Update – UK
UK: Onshore discovery Successful onshore UK wells are relatively rare, so the Horse Hill discovery, located in onshore UK block PEDL 246 in the Weald Basin, about 50 km south…
Exploration Update – Angola
Angola: Pre-Salt Discovery In the most significant non-Mauritania/Senegal well this year, and in fact the only West African discovery outside that area, Cobalt have announced a further pre-salt discovery on…
Unlocking the Petroleum Potential of Iran
GIS databases are a powerful tool for minimising exploration risk in Iranian hydrocarbon basins through geospatial analysis. Iran’s enormous surface area stretches over 2,300 km in a north-west to south-easterly…
Exploration Update – Algeria
Algeria: Triassic Discovery During early June 2016, Sonatrach made an oil and gas discovery in Algeria with its Oued Noumer Sud 1 (ONRS 1) new field wildcat. The discovery is…
Exploration Update
News of recent discoveries in both China and Myanmar signals a bright start to exploration in 2016. China: First Ultra-Deepwater Discovery Qiongdongnan Basin in the north-western part of the South…
Petroleum Basins of Yemen
Yemen’s petroleum resource base will be a critical part of reconstruction efforts once peace is restored, but this will require high-resolution exploration and development in both onshore producing basins and…
Mediterranean Carbonate Potential: Lessons from Existing Discoveries
The opening of new areas and the changing regional political and economic situation, together with innovative technologies, new seismic data and improved imaging, have revitalised exploration activity in the Central…
2015 Exploration Results: Eni Best in Class
Measuring success with the drill bit. Prior to official results, the speculation for 2015 was that discovered hydrocarbon volumes would continue their downward trend. The results now in show that…
New opportunities offshore West Egypt
The frontier exploration area offshore West Egypt (Figure 1) consists of several structural domains (Figure 2) including, from south to north, a comparatively narrow shelf zone; a west-south-west to east-north-east…
Uniting the Arctic
A new generation of Circum-Arctic geological and geophysical digital maps will reveal new data about the hydrocarbon potential of the region. Available online for the first time Originally published in Volume…