The Value of Monitoring Fractures
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…
Oil & Gas
Wytch Farm Ploughs Ahead
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?
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…
How much oil in the Middle East?
Part Two of a two-part series by author Rasoul Sorkhabi, focusing on oil and gas in the Middle East. Part One – Why So Oil in the Middle East? Current…
Petroleum systems in Jordan
Jordan is located within the producing sedimentary basin in the North-West Arabian Plate. Exploration was initiated in the country in 1947 by the Iraqi Petroleum Company, yet to date only…
Australia’s New Oil Heavyweight
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…
Ready to explore the offshore Arctic?
To unlock the vast, technically recoverable oil and gas resources that are attracting international oil companies to the Arctic will take Herculean effort. For example, Shell has spent billions of…
Unleashing the true potential of the Mad Dog oil field
Mapping on a 1996 vintage 3D seismic survey over the southern Green Canyon area of the Central Gulf of Mexico revealed a broad, simple, anticlinal high. Reflectivity was very poor…
The dark horse upstream
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
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
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…
Cairn Discovers Gas Offshore Sri Lanka
Cairn Lanka, a subsidiary of Cairn India, has struck gas in the offshore Gulf of Mannar Basin between Sri Lanka and the southern tip of peninsular India. ter a successful…