Pre-Salt Exploration Trends in the Kwanza Basin
The continued application of new technologies is opening up a new exploration frontier in the deepwater Kwanza Basin. Since the discovery of the Girassol field by Elf in 1996, most…
Oil & Gas
A World Class Discovery
The first oil was sampled in September last year. It took several wells and one full year of detailed analyses to prove that the discovery may contain more than 2.6…
Hot Spot: Greenland
A recent well drilled by the Scottish company Cairn Energy has, for the first time, proven oil offshore West Greenland. “The presence of both oil and gas confirms an active,…
A Classic Southern North Sea Analogue
The coast of North East England has a series of outcrops which give a detailed insight into some of the most important reservoirs of the Southern North Sea. Attacked by…
More Giant Oil Discoveries
Last year, the Keathley Canyon area yielded three of the world’s top oil finds, bringing in high leasing bids and continued drilling activity. What started in 2001 with the Baha…
The King of Giant Fields
Since the petroleum industry began in the mid-nineteenth century, numerous oil fields have been discovered and over 70,000 oil fields are still in use. Nonetheless, not all fields were created…
Prolific Miocene Trend Hurt by Blowout
Miocene deep water sands were the target for the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252, and it is probably from one of these sands that the blowout originates. The…
Eagle Ford Shale
What started as a major shale gas play, the Eagle Ford Shale could be the sixth largest U.S. oilfield ever discovered and the largest in forty years. Like many of…
Norway: The Victoria Gas Discovery
“Victoria is probably the largest undeveloped discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf,” title Rune Hope said in a presentation he gave to the 3rdbiennial petroleum geology conference “Exploration Revived 2009”…
Paleozoic Tight Gas Plays in Jordan
Compared to the other Middle Eastern countries, Jordan does not have a significant position in terms of conventional oil and gas resources. According toOil & Gas Journal (21 December 2009),…
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico Basin has proved to be a highly successful hydrocarbon province, and the vast untapped volume of both oil and gas ensures that the basin will continue…
Getting into Hot Water
Hot water from subsurface reservoirs can be used directly to heat our houses. Data, software and knowledge from oil industry operations can help delineate this under-used resource, as is now…