Faults and fractures are often an important factor in determining hydrocarbon storage capacity and productivity in reservoirs such as tight carbonates, quartzites and basements. The use of reservoir analogues such Read More

The United Nations International Year of Planet Earth (2008) received its Global Launch at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, on February 12 and 13. The aim of the Year is to persuade Read More

Passive low-frequency seismic is an area of active research and development, and is rapidly being taken up as a new direct hydrocarbon indicator (DHI) technique for exploration. The interest in Read More

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New leadership, new roads, expanding cities, new found wealth and freedom are bringing dramatic changes to China’s countryside and its people. Has this also brought with it new opportunities in Read More

It’s about time to explore the offshore in more detail. That means the international oil industry is now welcome to bid in the next licensing round closing in April. ExPro Read More

Innovative thinking and a new play concept finds a giant gas field on a lease block that had been explored for 50 years and drilled 11 times. A New Look Read More

The Raven Field in the Nile Delta, discovered in 2004, has proved the window to a major new play in this prolific geological province and has de-risked a significant volume Read More

The announcement by BP of a significant gas discovery in January in the offshore Nile Delta confirms the area as one of the most promising gas provinces being explored at Read More

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), responsible for resource management on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, has a new boss who is also a geologist by profession. We talked to Director General Read More

By combining this information with our present geophysical understanding of the area, it may be possible to give more refined prognoses of the subsurface development and economic potential of analogous Read More