Great Expectations: Oil and Gas Drilling Campaigns in 2019
A number of interesting, but not very adventurous, drilling campaigns in oil and gas exploration are planned for 2019. A summary of expected wildcat drilling campaigns around the world for…
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Exciting Times Ahead for Oil and Gas in Malaysia
Proven oil and gas reserves up for grabs in Malaysia’s next world-class acreage offering. Following on from a successful 2019 bid round, and carrying on the well organised and thorough…
Oil and Gas Exploration in Latin America: From Shallow Shelf to Deepwater
A brief overview of the history and future of oil and gas exploration in Latin America. Explorers first stepped out from prolific onshore basins into shallow water just after World…
Developments in Middle East Oil and Gas Exploration
It was a successful 2018 in Middle East oil and gas exploration for the small Gulf states and UAE. With global exploration delivering slim pickings for organic reserves replacement, focus…
«The Low Carbon Future»
In 30 years, Norwegian oil and gas production will be halved. At that time, CO2 emissions will reach a bottom level.
Found a 2.5 m oil column
OKEA has completed drilling of the reservoir section of the Infill Ø well (6407/9-11) in the Draugen Field. The well targeted a possible unswept oil accumulation in the producing reservoir…
Advances in Stratigraphic Trap Exploration
Analysis of the AAPG giant fields database reveals that there has been a step change in volumes of oil attributed to non-structural traps in the last 20 years. Why is…
US in the lead
The United States currently holds 293 billion barrels of recoverable oil resources. This is 20 billion barrels more than Saudi Arabia and almost 100 billion barrels more than Russia, according…
What is chemostratigraphy?
The rapid expansion of global oil and gas exploration from the early 1960s was accompanied by the expansion of the areas being examined by explorationists towards more challenging, often frontier,…
Lessons to be learned
“The Maria field in the Norwegian Sea has underperformed”, reports Joe Killen, analyst with Westwood Global Energy. It came onstream a year ahead of schedule but has experienced a 71%…
The World Needs More Energy
In their Energy Outlook, issued every year, BP looks at the broad forces shaping the energy. This year BP highlights two key issues. Firstly, the world needs more energy, and…
Deep Blue – one of nine
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…