Oil & Gas

Titanic effort in ultra deep waters off Newfoundland

ExxonMobil, with partner QatarEnergy, is drilling the Persephone (C-54) wildcat offshore Canada’s Labrador and Newfoundland coast. This new frontier wildcat is testing a number of conventional clastic reservoirs in rifted…

Returning exploration to Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is enduring the worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. Its economy has been on a general downward trend since 2018, shrank by nearly 8 % in…

Net energy matters

Whilst these sources have a supporting role to play in the energy system, the majority of energy sources for powering the world should be high density, low emissions, low land…

Basement plays rock in China

Over recent years,  a number of significant oil and gas offshore discoveries and successful appraisal programmes have been reported in China, even though it is often unclear if the “discoveries”…

Is the Colombian Basin on its way to become the next big frontier?

The demand for replacing O&G reserves along with the development of modern drilling and imaging technologies has pushed the boundaries of offshore exploration to new limits. By applying data-lead concepts,…