Iran After Sanctions: Opportunities and Risks
Iran provides a significant opportunity to access low cost production for the right companies. In response to the removal of sanctions, we take a look at the opportunities and challenges,…
Exploration
Lebanon. The New Levantine Exploration Opportunity.
Lebanon lies at the centre of known regional hydrocarbon systems, but it is poorly explored and understood, possibly due to topographic challenges to terrestrial geophysical acquisition. A recently acquired suite…
Colombia: Anadarko unlocking ultra-deepwater potential
the partnership of Anadarko (operator) and Ecopetrol have made a gas discovery in the ultra-deepwaters of the south Caribbean area off Colombia, which they stated proves their geological model in…
UKCS 28th Round
The UK 28th Licensing Round is anticipated to open in February 2014, the seventh since the Fallow and Promote initiatives were introduced in 2003 to encourage exploration growth. The UK…
The Triassic Margin Play
The Triassic margin is a significant but underexplored frontier play in the Levant region, particularly in Jordan. The Levant covers a large onshore area in the East Mediterranean region including…
Seismic to Boost Mexican Exploration
Despite being labeled as ‘historic’ and ‘ground-breaking’, Mexico’s first ever offering of oil and gas blocks to private and foreign investors proved to be less than spectacular. Last year the…
Why Norway?
For more than ten years, Norway has attracted small- and intermediate-sized companies because of favourable geological and fiscal conditions. An uplift in the tax system may now reduce the majors’…
A New Global Sediment Thickness Map of the World
Experts from Getech have been addressing the challenge of deriving a globally consistent depth-to-basement map and have devised an approach which accounts for the obstacles of variable data resolution and…
Waking up to Papua New Guinea
Perched on the edge of a subduction zone, Papua New Guinea bears little resemblance to most of the world’s petroleum terranes. But the small Pacific nation is suddenly on the…
Mauritania Offshore Hints at Significant Reserves
As the surge of oil and gas exploration activity on the African continent continues apace, a clutch of countries, including Mauritania, are emerging as particular hot-spots on a continent filled…
What Lies Beneath the Deepwater Tano Basin?
Hunting for Jubilee-like prospects in Côte d’Ivoire Boosted by recent discoveries, Côte d’Ivoire has seen renewed interest in its deepwater offshore basin over the last few years. Up until 2011,…
The Need For New Frontier Exploration
Over the last years offshore exploration activity has been at a historic high, without any significant corresponding discoveries. The result is a considerable increase in the global average discovery cost.…