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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Oil & Gas

The home of the world’s first deep-water gas development

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co
Following World War II, a number of US-com­panies drilled onshore but never found anything commercial despite the presence of surface seeps. Fortunes changed in the 1970s with Cities Service making…

Major new oil discovery in Cuu Long Basin Vietnam

Jonathan Craig, NVentures
Murphy Oil announced on 7th January that the Hai Su Vang-1X offshore exploration well, in block 15-2/17, Cuu Long Basin, has discovered oil. The well was spud in late September…

Mixing models madness

Henk Kombrink
With most prospects, multiple trapping elements contribute to the potential size of the discovery. For instance, a prospect can be a 4-way at the top of the closure, but may…

Shallow gas in production and decommissioning

Francis Buckley, Geophysicist
This is the third and final article in the article in the Shallow Gas series, brought to you by Francis Buckley. Read the previous articles here: Shallow gas: How to…

Shallow gas as a resource

Francis Buckley, Geophysicist
This is the second article in the Shallow Gas series of three, brought to you by Francis Buckley. Read the first article here: Shallow gas: How to better map the…

Shallow gas: How to better map the risk?

Francis Buckley, Geophysicist
Shallow gas has long been known as a drilling hazard. However, the increasing costs of powering offshore produc­tion facilities, the problems associat­ed with decommissioning, and the contribution of natural and…

Calling a discovery without drilling a well

Henk Kombrink
British Antarctic territory. Source: britannica.com. Interpreting a nice undrilled 4-way closure in a seismic survey and subsequently announcing it as the discovery of new reserves would rock the boat in…

A welcome gas find

Henk Kombrink
When looking at the oil and gas fields in the Western Desert of Egypt, and then read this article from Simon Baer and colleagues at PGS, which describes how the…