Oil & Gas

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…

Why so much oil in the Middle East?

Part One of a two part series by author Rasoul Sorkhabi, focussing on oil and gas in the Middle East. Part Two – How Much Oil in the Middle East? Of…

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),…