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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Oil & Gas

PNG Lands on the Petroleum Map

David Upton
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is set to join the exclusive club of LNG exporting nations before mid-year when first cargoes ship from its US $19 billion LNG project. The ExxonMobil-operated facility was completed ahead of schedule…

Improving Reservoir Characterisation

Lucy MacGregor, RSI Inc.
Reservoir characterisation can be improved through the integrated analysis of CSEM, seismic and well log data. Determining reservoir geometry and properties from the surface is a challenging but important task.…

Keep your Eye on NWAAM

Will Thornton
The North West African Atlantic margin (NWAAM) is entering a new phase of activity. Despite the fact that many of the established petroliferous basins of Africa are entering the mature…

Ronda Uno

Ian Davison and Theodore Faull, Earthmoves Ltd.
Mexico’s first exploration licensing round is a landmark event in the history of oil exploration in Latin America Mexico’s oil industry is opening up to the private sector after a 76-year…

The Value of Monitoring Fractures

Charles Sicking, Global Geophysical
Real time frac monitoring shows the progression of fractures opened during the fracking process, knowledge which can impact drilling decisions. Unconventional reservoirs are a growing part of the oil and…

Wytch Farm Ploughs Ahead

Will Thornton
Celebrated as the largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe (~500 MM bo), the Wytch Farm field in Dorset, southern England, is an iconic field to the thousands of geoscientists and…

A Golden Age for Gas?

Ken White
Will shale gas be a game changer for Brazil? At the 2012 Rio Oil and Gas Conference it was revealed that the ANP had commenced a survey of Brazil’s shale…

Australia’s New Oil Heavyweight

David Upton
Australia has a surprising new heavyweight in oil production – the western flank of the Cooper-Eromanga Basin. il production from this arid and remote region 800 km north of Adelaide…

Unleashing the True Potential of the Mad Dog Oil Field

Thomas Smith
Technological imaging advances and a phased development in the 15 years since discovery have begun to unlock the full potential of the Mad Dog Field, increasing its known oil-in-place nearly…

The Dark Horse Upstream

Hunter C. Eden and David Mungo, StratoChem Services
In 2008, Petrohawk of Houston made the now historic Texas Eagle Ford shale discovery after consulting geochemical data from a nearly forgotten 50-year-old wellbore. The basic 1950s geochemistry confirmed sufficient…

Brazil’s Sub-Salt Discoveries Extend North

Thomas Smith
Recently announced deepwater, sub-salt discoveries in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin extend that trend into Brazil’s north-eastern continental margin, over 2,000 km north of the Santos Basin discoveries. The smaller onshore portion…

A Significant Milestone

Ken White
Santos has declared itself to be on track to produce Australia’s first commercial shale gas after its Moomba-191 shale gas well in the Cooper Basin licence PPL 7 flowed at…