TotalEnergies to drill an infill well on Culzean less than 2 years after OBN acquisition
One of the most important roles of conference chairs is to build a programme that ensures people want to stay until the bitter end of the last day. At Seismic…
Oil & Gas
The state of global gas exploration
“If we look back at the years before the pandemic and the Ukraine invasion, the only countries where we saw a consistent search for gas were the countries around the…
Large licence turnover, but what’s the value added?
There has been significant coverage in the news about the latest UK licensing round. To backtrack, the 33rd Offshore Licensing Round officially opened on 7 October 2022 with applications closing…
Activity and opportunities abound across the Africa region
E&P across Africa in 2024 is off to a busy start, with clear signs the exploration industry is recovering from half a decade of under-investment. Exploration activity is still focused…
Getting close to Mopane
For obvious reasons, there has been a lot of media coverage today on the test results of the Mopane-1X well in Namibian waters. The well flowed at 14 kboepd at…
Uruguay – from totally open to totally licensed in just a few years
When the Kudu gas field was discovered offshore Namibia in the early 1970s, Chevron jumped to the other side of the Atlantic to take acreage in Uruguay in a similar…
The sequel: The hunt for Buzzard II continues
The prospect is located in the Peterhead Graben, a sub-basin in the geographically more extensive ‘South Halibut Basin’, home to numerous Upper Jurassic fields and discoveries of which the giant…
Are National Oil Companies the answer to addressing security of supply concerns across the North Sea?
“Many countries in the West have deliberately moved from being carnivores to vegans if that analogy can be used for the energy system”, someone recently told me at a conference.…
Chasing giant oil prospects on the Arabian Platform in southeastern Türkiye
As part of the Arabian Platform, known as the most prolific oil province in the world without a doubt, southeastern Türkiye continued to be underexplored until recently. The USGS published…
Why?
Many question why oil and gas companies are still investing in the sector, at a time when the fight against global warming is intensifying and the world is keen on…
Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin
Yesterday, Petrobras announced the discovery of hydrocarbons in the ultra-deep waters of the Potiguar Basin in Brazil. The well, named Anhangá, found hydrocarbons in turbidite reservoir sands of Albian age.…
Increase risk!
“Have we run out of new ideas?”, asked Kjersti Dahle from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) rhetorically during her keynote speech at the NCS Exploration Strategy conference in Stavanger last…