The rise of Venus in Uruguay’s Pelotas Basin
Uruguay plays Namibia on number 1 court The “Most interesting Basin in the World” ball has been batted across the Atlantic regularly for the last 30 years. Early deep-water success Read More
Potential prospectivity identified in the Orphan Basin
A paradigm shift in data imaging Accurate velocity and reflectivity models are essential for high-fidelity seismic interpretation. Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) followed by Least-Squares Migration (LSM) is currently the Read More
UK North Sea: A Step-Change in Imaging Quality
It is often said the best place to find oil is in an oil field and if that is true then perhaps the second-best place to find oil would be Read More
Opportunities for African gas are plentiful
The International Energy Agency’s 10-point plan to reduce the European Union’s reliance on Russian natural gas makes no mention of Africa. Rather, it sees increased production from Azerbaijan and Norway Read More
Chasing the many plays of the Mauritanian Margin
Building a fully integrated dataset offshore Mauritania ION’s Mauritania 3D products allow the explorer to build a greater understanding of the potential of this emerging province on a single, integrated, Read More
Bad news & good news
In May 2022, the Biden Administration cancelled two lease sales (259 and 261) in the Gulf of Mexico (and 258 in Alaska), citing “conflicting court rulings” for the Gulf of Read More
A game-changing geothermal project
Plans to drill up to seventeen wells – each to a depth of around 2,500 m. That is the scale of the geothermal development that may be realised in the city Read More
The Many Ways Fossils Help Decode the Subsurface
From determining how rocks correlate to reconstructing palaeoenvironments and palaeotemperatures, which is relevant to the petroleum geologist, fossils are of great significance to science and industry While there are lots Read More