East Africa – Riding High
East Africa is riding a wave of excitement and interest in the industry, with significant successes in offshore Mozambique, Uganda and Tanzania. Bimbola Kolawole, Business Development Manager, Africa with Rystad…
Exploration
Kashagan comes onstream
Hailed as the largest oil field discovered in the last four decades, the Kashagan field is located about 80 km offshore Atyrau in the northern Caspian Sea. Discovered in 2000…
Yet Another Final Frontier? Honduras
Following on from his article about the prospectivity of Jamaica in GEO ExPro, Vol. 7, No. 6 Chris Matchette-Downes moves westward to take a look at the eastern part of…
New Acreage in Frontier Provinces
In June, 29 companies were awarded frontier acreage in the Norwegian and Barents Seas offshore Norway. In June, 29 companies were awarded frontier acreage in the Norwegian and Barents Seas…
Conference That’s a Cut Above
The Bob F. Perkins Research Conference provides geoscientists with a unique, yearly format to present cutting-edge research papers and share ideas on selected subjects. For the past 33 years, the…
Alaska north slope: Source rocks hold promise
In Alaska’s October 2010 lease sale, Great Bear Petroleum surprised just about everyone by winning 105 tracts covering over 2,000 km. directly south of the Prudhoe Bay Complex (see GEO…
South Sudan: “The Oil is Now Flowing”
After a 15-month stalemate, South Sudan has announced it is to resume oil production, ending a bitter row with former civil war foe and neighbour Sudan and marking a major…
Insights from space!
Recent offshore gas discoveries have renewed interest in the Eastern Mediterranean region and its reassessment for hydrocarbon potential. In order to develop a detailed geological understanding of a region, and…
Ready to Explore the Offshore Arctic?
To unlock the vast, technically recoverable oil and gas resources that are attracting international oil companies to the Arctic will take Herculean effort. For example, Shell has spent billions of…
New deepwater frontiers an ocean apart
The South Atlantic Equatorial Margin represents new, deepwater exploration frontiers. The 2007 Tullow Oil discovery of the Jubilee Field off the West African margin, located 60 km offshore Ghana in…
Ireland’s Porcupine Basin: The dream comes closer
Over the years estimates of hydrocarbon resources in Irish waters have ranged from 10 Bboe to 50 Bboe, but at present little exploration work exists to substantiate either figure. Indeed,…
Iceland exploration revived
Iceland is currently not producing oil or gas. However, the very first oil and gas offshore licensing round of some 40,000 km2 on the Jan Mayen Ridge, which lies between…