KOC continues its exploration success in what could be described as a syncline
A bit more than a year ago, KOC announced the discovery of oil and gas in the Al-Nokhatha structure offshore Kuwait. Based on regional data and the location of the…
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Renaissance ramps up exploration activity in Nigeria
“To meet the economic demands of the Nation and mandates given by the Federal Government, we need to increase production,” says Johnbosco Uche, “that is one of our main targets…
An unconventional unconventional gas project
When I visited the MEOS GEO Conference in Bahrain last in 2025 and spoke to some people about projects currently ongoing in the region, it slowly dawned on me that…
Karabash – West Siberia’s new frontier?
The region of Karabash sits in the southern part of Khanty-Mansiysk and Tyumen. Historically, oil and gas developments have been more limited in this part of West Siberia, as the…
When perforating below the Free Water level makes sense
“It may be the last oil field development in the Dutch sector,” upstream analyst Bert Manders told me the other day. The IJssel field development in the northern part of…
How structural setting and hydrocarbon phase are closely related
The Papuan Basin is located across a tectonically active area and is dominated by a gas-prone Jurassic petroleum system with a whole-of-system Gas-Liquid Ratio of 30,000 scf/bbl. The complex geology,…
US Permian Basin – the largest injection experiment
If you look at the volume of water versus hydrocarbons produced from the Permian Basin per day, the basin would surely qualify as being predominantly a water production exercise: 20…
One block, one basin
The Thailand Department of Mineral Fuels has just announced a licence round in the Mergui Basin, Andaman Sea. Interestingly, they have decided to license the area as a single massive…
Understanding the “Minimum Economic Field Size” concept and aggregating targets
Applying a “Minimum Economic Field Size” (MEFS) to your prospect assessment is a key process in quantifying the probability of finding hydrocarbon accumulations of a volume large enough to develop…
Unlocking the deep offshore potential of the Mahanadi Basin
The eastern Continental Margin of India (ECMI) is a 2,500 km long passive margin that comprises the following peri-cratonic basins from south to north, the Cauvery, Krishna-Godavari, Mahanadi, and Bengal…
The absurdity of security… or… comfortable being uncomfortable
My father, 90, is a product of the random precariousness of this world. His mother’s first husband died at sea, washed overboard in a storm, whilst his father’s first wife…
Will Greenland be the next oil hotspot?
These days, it is quite common to hear that frontier exploration is a thing of the past. But what is about to happen in Greenland this year should cast some…