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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Geology

An Overlooked Petroleum System

David Rajmon, GeoSophix and Vsevolod Egorov, Consulting Geoscientist
Is it possible to generate hydrocarbons over the oceanic crust? In petroleum exploration, the concept of hydrocarbon generation on the continental crust is completely accepted. However, modelling exercises demonstrate that,…

Gas Blowouts on the Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas

Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky, Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
Last year a giant crater was discovered on the Yamal Peninsula south of the Kara Sea in the Russian Arctic, just 30 km south of the giant Bovanenkovo oil and…

Vast Hydrocarbon Potential: Mexico’s Offshore Ronda Uno

Ian Davison, Eoin O’Beirne, Theodore Faull and Ian Steel, Earthmoves Ltd.
An insight into some highlights of the offshore hydrocarbon potential available in almost virgin exploration territory. The Mexican Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) announced its first ever licensing round (Ronda Uno) in…

Stories From Deep Time

Jane Whaley
How one man’s passion for the fossils of ‘an uninteresting rock’ has resulted in a unique collection. Steve Etches is a man with a passion – and a very crowded…

The Search for Oil in the South-Eastern Barents Sea

Sylvia B. Hammersvik and Gustav A. Ersdal, CGG
Broadband imaging improves the understanding of a prospective area on the Finnmark platform. For more than 40 years Russia and Norway were in dispute over a 175,000 km2 area in the…

Black & Blue

Dr. Sally Morgan, UK IODP Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Using blue sky science data to aid in de-risking black gold exploration. For nearly 50 years the International Ocean Discovery Program has drilled, cored and measured the earth beneath the sea…

Source Rock Subcropping in the Baffin Bay

Sverre Planke ( VBPR), Jǿrn Christensen (TGS), Stephane Polteau (VBPR) and Reidun Myklebust (TGS).
Seabed samples from the Baffin Bay document an active hydrocarbon system offshore northwest Greenland. The northwest Greenland shelf is a frontier petroleum province in the arctic Baffin Bay. Limited seismic…