Calling a discovery without drilling a well
British Antarctic territory. Source: britannica.com. Interpreting a nice undrilled 4-way closure in a seismic survey and subsequently announcing it as the discovery of new reserves would rock the boat in…
Oil & Gas
A welcome gas find
When looking at the oil and gas fields in the Western Desert of Egypt, and then read this article from Simon Baer and colleagues at PGS, which describes how the…
New wildcat drilling campaigns set to drown out doubts of commerciality in the Orange Basin of Namibia
Following a lull in activity during the middle of 2024, and despite the recent news from Shell and Chevron (Kapana-1), exploration and appraisal drilling returns full throttle in the highly…
Deep marine reservoirs with fresh water – how come?
It was on the back of an article we published about CSEM that Brian Frost, an experienced explorer from the USA, commented on the LinkedIn post that deep marine reservoirs…
The writing was on the wall
Yesterday, Reuters broke the news that Shell has written off a $400 million exploration investment over “an oil discovery” in PEL39 in Namibia’s deep-water area. Even though a field name…
The Caribbean
The presence of oil in the Caribbean has long been known, and has successfully been explored for across the region – with producing fields in Cuba, Barbados, and the Caribbean…
One of the most prospective undrilled areas in the world
When it comes to licensing rounds in the Asia-Pacific region, the undoubted success in recent years has been Petronas, which has set an industry standard for attracting serious and substantial…
Looking deeper than the traditional petroleum plays
Whilst many Western European nations have either banned or disincentivized hydrocarbon exploration in their own jurisdictions, some have continued to open their doors. Hungary is an example of a country…
You can mine coal, but you can also produce the associated gas
“We knew there was coal because of the mine,” said Greg Channon from Elixir during a presentation at the Seapex Conference in Singapore in February 2023. He was talking about…
A shallow gas find sealed by gas hydrates
When I was a PhD student, 20 years ago, a seasoned geologist told me that the energy transition was not so much a transition, but a shift towards tapping into…
Oil does not care about boundaries
In the early decades of oil exploration and production, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, the concept of an oil field having clear boundaries was not given much thought.…
Record-breaking deep conventional gas discovery points to a major new trend in the Central Perth Basin
Strike Energy* (50 %, operator) and Warrego Energy’s Erregulla Deep-1 (ED-1) well, in EP 469, discovered two high-quality, low-impurity conventional gas reservoirs, totalling 28 m of net gas pay at…