Harper Basin Exposé
The undrilled Harper Basin lies offshore Liberia between the Liberian-Sierra Leone Basin to the north, and the Ivorian/Tano Basin to the south-east. It covers approximately 20,000 km2, extending from shelf…
Exploration
Lofoten Island drilling nearer?
As discussed in GEO ExPro Vol. 9 No. 5, the seas around Norway’s remote northern Lofoten Islands remain the largest unopened section of the Norwegian Atlantic Ocean, and environmentalists are…
Mexico: Biggest onshore find in decade
Pemex says it has found oil reserves of up to 500 MMb in southern Mexico with its Navegante-1 wildcat, a Sureste Basin discovery that outgoing President Felipe Calderon hailed as…
Kenya: Discovery in Block 13T
Only the second prospect to be tested in the onshore north-west Kenyan Lokichar Trough as part of Tullow Oil’s multi-well drilling campaign in Kenya and Ethiopia, the Twiga South-1 wildcat…
New Barents Sea survey
One of the hottest areas in north-west Europe at the moment is the Barents Sea, where a number of major discoveries have been made in recent years, including the giant…
New Insights into the Browse Basin
Despite recent drilling success, the Browse Basin remains relatively underexplored, and imaging and mapping of the deeper horizons presents challenges to conventional seismic. The Browse Basin offshore North West Shelf…
Borneo’s Petroleum Plays
Borneo, the world’s third largest island, has lush tropical forests, rich wildlife, coral reefs, and fascinating tribal cultures. It also has classical petroleum basins characterized by vast deltaic sediments and…
Integrated Approach Showcased
Azerbaijan has played a major role in the hydrocarbon industry for centuries, as it was the first place where people learnt how to obtain and use oil for domestic use.…
New Zealand Bidding Round Opens
The government of New Zealand recently opened its annual bidding round for oil and gas exploration permits; between June 8 and October 15, 2012, bids from petroleum exploration and production…
Iraq Investment Set to Increase
The energy sector in Iraq is predicted to see investment of a minimum of US$50 billion over the next five years amidst a gradually improving security situation, according to a…
ARKeX Goes Multi-Client
Within the hydrocarbon exploration industry, the market for gravity gradiometry has grown substantially over the past few years. ARKeX, which specialises in non-seismic geophysical imaging, has become one of the…