Brazil: Further Pre-Salt Discoveries
Offshore Brazil continues to prove that it is one of the most exciting and prolific exploration areas in the world, with four of the top discoveries so far this year…
Exploration
Relying on Chalk
Almost all Danish oil and gas comes from the Central Graben. Nevertheless, there is still some interest in other areas, including the onshore. he first exploration licence in Denmark was…
Is Shale Gas Bringing Independence?
Shale gas has helped the US to become the world’s largest gas producer. Will shale gas and shale oil production lead America to energy independence? The headline from the Forbes-INSIGHTS…
Africa: Continent of Discoveries
Africa conference will examine exciting new plays and developments. Africa continues to deliver exciting new oil and gas discoveries in emerging plays. There is great excitement offshore East Africa, from…
Afghanistan Taking Off?
CNPC becomes first international player to secure Afghanistan acreage. Ravaged by years of war, geo graphic ally disadvantaged, land locked and mountainous and carrying genuine fears of political instability; hardly…
Shell to Drill Arctic This Summer
In the first exploratory drilling program in US Arctic waters in two decades, Shell is to start drilling prospects in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off northern Alaska this August.…
Liberia: Significant Oil Discovery
Liberia’s race to join its West African neighbours Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire and especially Ghana has moved an important step forward. Source: African Petroleum In late February African Petroleum, which…
Kenya Hits the Jackpot
After discoveries in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, Kenya hopes to join the club. For too long a backwater in hydrocarbon terms, dependent on imported oil and gas, East Africa is…
Extended North West African Margin Survey
Since May last year, Dolphin Geophysical has been acquiring long-offset, high specification, regional 2D data along the North West African Atlantic Margin (NWAAM). Initially covering Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and the…
Force Majeure in Syria
The much-vaunted Arab Spring, which has brought new life to the Libyan oil industry, where production is reportedly already nearly back to pre-revolution volumes, is having a less satisfactory impression…
Collaboration is the Future
A new atlas of the North East Atlantic region is the outcome of collaboration between national survey organizations. In the present straitened times, finances are tight for all research organizations,…
Cyprus: Historic Gas Discovery
The inhabitants of the island of Cyprus had a very exciting late Christmas present, when Noble Energy announced that they had made a significant gas discovery offshore on December 28…