The North Falkland Basin
What have we learned from this summer’s exploration drilling activity around the Falkland Isles? This year six wells have been completed or are drilling around the Falkland Islands, with one…
Exploration
From Gold Coast to Black Gold
Although oil and gas were first found offshore Ghana in 1970, petroleum companies showed very little interest in the West African country until exploration moved into deeper water. Since 2007,…
Sourcing an Oil Boom
Underlying an area approximately the size of France, the Bakken Formation oil reservoir keeps expanding into what has become North America’s hottest onshore oil play. While the recent U.S. Geological…
Jurassic Targets
While the first deep water wells in the Norwegian Sea failed to reach the Jurassic, significant data improvements may now make it possible to delineate Jurassic targets in deep grabens…
The Lofoten Islands
The Lofoten-Vesterålen region is one of the last unexplored provinces of the Norwegian Sea. It could hold 1.3 Bboe, but is a very environmentally sensitive area. Geological knowledge of the…
Faroe Islands: Success Near
For years the Faroe Islands have had to look on while their larger neighbours in north-west Europe have extracted untold riches in hydrocarbons from offshore acreage. Has their turn finally…
A Hot Spot in the Barents Sea
3D seismic in the Barents Sea reveal promising traps and convincing flat spots. As the twenty-first Norwegian licensing round approaches, the Barents Sea remains an area of high exploration interest…
Andaman Basin
India’s Andaman Sea Basin is still considered frontier with respect to hydrocarbon exploration. Recent 2D seismic reprocessing has highlighted the potential of this area and has identified likely source, reservoir…
Big Time for Small Companies
Although some major oil producers view the prospects offshore UK as too small for their attention, their exit leaves interesting opportunities for smaller companies. The recent 25th UK offshore Licensing…
New Data Reveals Sub-Salt Levantine Basin
New data using GeoStreamer® gives extraordinary imaging of sub-salt and deeper events in the Levantine Basin in the eastern Mediterranean. The recent giant sub-salt gas discoveries (7Tcf) offshore Israel in the Levantine…
Striving to Define an Oil Province
The future of the Norwegian Barents Sea, following almost 30 years of exploration, is still in the making. A new look at the petroleum systems in combination with high quality…
Deepwater Frontier Exploration
Offshore Indonesia, TGS has recently come up with innovative ways of combining data from a number of sources to examine the prospectivity of underexplored deepwater frontier basins in a cost-effective…