The writing was on the wall
Yesterday, Reuters broke the news that Shell has written off a $400 million exploration investment over “an oil discovery” in PEL39 in Namibia’s deep-water area. Even though a field name…
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The Caribbean
The presence of oil in the Caribbean has long been known, and has successfully been explored for across the region – with producing fields in Cuba, Barbados, and the Caribbean…
One of the most prospective undrilled areas in the world
When it comes to licensing rounds in the Asia-Pacific region, the undoubted success in recent years has been Petronas, which has set an industry standard for attracting serious and substantial…
Looking deeper than the traditional petroleum plays
Whilst many Western European nations have either banned or disincentivized hydrocarbon exploration in their own jurisdictions, some have continued to open their doors. Hungary is an example of a country…
You can mine coal, but you can also produce the associated gas
“We knew there was coal because of the mine,” said Greg Channon from Elixir during a presentation at the Seapex Conference in Singapore in February 2023. He was talking about…
A shallow gas find sealed by gas hydrates
When I was a PhD student, 20 years ago, a seasoned geologist told me that the energy transition was not so much a transition, but a shift towards tapping into…
Oil does not care about boundaries
In the early decades of oil exploration and production, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, the concept of an oil field having clear boundaries was not given much thought.…
Record-breaking deep conventional gas discovery points to a major new trend in the Central Perth Basin
Strike Energy* (50 %, operator) and Warrego Energy’s Erregulla Deep-1 (ED-1) well, in EP 469, discovered two high-quality, low-impurity conventional gas reservoirs, totalling 28 m of net gas pay at…
Namibia – Looking at the factors that cause concern when it comes to developing the recent deep-water finds
“People don’t dream anymore”, said Marcio Mello when he started his talk about Namibia’s deep-water petroleum plays at the IMAGE conference in Houston in August 2024, referring to the dreaming…
A major and not-on-trend discovery in Kuwait
Kuwait is not the first country one would associate with places ramping up efforts to discover more oil. At the end of the day, the small Gulf country is home…
The birth of a new play
This is a story of how subsurface data was used in the way it should be – to incrementally gain a better understanding of how a petroleum system works. And…
Disentangling a deep oil play
Over the course of 10 years, Shell had ample reasons to walk away from the Norphlet play in the GOM. Deeply buried, this Upper Jurassic system was always near the…