Enhanced Oil Recovery – Utilising Captured CO2
Can the UK return to oil self-sufficiency? When governments get out of the way, remarkable things can happen. For example, some industry pundits now say that it is perfectly possible…
Oil & Gas
Colombia Rediscovered
Colombia’s regulatory reforms are paying dividends, with dozens of new oil and gas discoveries over the past two years – yet ‘rediscovered’ older fields are carrying the country to new…
Libya – the next chapter
After more than six months of civil unrest and over 40 years of an increasingly wayward and unpredictable military dictatorship, the people of Libya are taking stock – and that…
Leveraging Complex Geologies
The ability of reservoir models to leverage seismic and accommodate complex geologies ensures robust and reliable models, improved decision-making, more justifiable investments, and improved field performance. Including the building of…
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…
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…