Milestones in Angola’s Oil History

Angola is set in the next decade to overtake Nigeria as the biggest oil producer in Africa. We look at the milestones in the country’s rapidly expanding oil and gas Read More

New Offshore Licensing Round for Tanzania

With recent discoveries in East Africa dominating the news, the government of Tanzania is expected to get a lot of interest in its 4th Offshore Bid Round, due to be Read More

Salt Lake City – An Attractive Destination

A beautiful location overlooked by the Rocky Mountains; history, culture, four seasons and the “greatest snow on earth” – Salt Lake City in Utah has plenty to offer the visitor. Read More

Committed to the Industry

Drawn to challenge, committed to an industry – that’s Ralph W. Baird, 2011 recipient of the Colonel Edwin L. Drake Legendary Oilman Award from the Petroleum History Institute. Ralph W. Read More

Romania: Black Sea Gas Discovery

While it is far too early to give accurate figures, the first deep water well in the Romanian part of the Black Sea looks to be a major success for Read More

More Oil and Gas to be Found

There is no doubt: oil and gas will remain the preferred energy source for years to come, according to Exxon Mobil’s comprehensive review of energy demands in the next 30 Read More

A Good Career Choice

Dr. Lucy Ramsey is one of the new generation of geoscientists in the oil and gas industry. We ask her about her impressions of the industry so far. What attracted Read More

Going Deep for the Heat

Geothermal energy is becoming an increasingly hot topic. Recent research suggests that even areas outside ‘high-temperature fields’ may be sufficiently warm to generate electricity. Beneath our feet there are rich Read More

High Expectations Morocco

With landscape varying from the wonderful, snowy High Atlas mountains to the sand dunes of the Sahara, vibrant Morocco is one of Africa’s largest energy consumers, yet it remains remarkably Read More

Exploration potential of the Nigerian transform margin

High potential in the offshore Nigeria transform margin The African Transform Margin is a new major petroleum province, with offshore basins still relatively poorly explored, but the new Nigeria Transform Read More

Three World-Class Discoveries

For the first time in 15 years, a giant discovery was made offshore Norway last year. Three world-class discoveries made 2011 an exceptional year for the oil industry in Norway. Read More

Second Cyprus Licensing Round Opens

Recent nearby giant discoveries will increase interest The recent giant gas discovery in the area of offshore Cyprus (GEO ExPro, Vol. 9, No. 1) has made this a very attractive Read More

Marine Seismic Sources Part XIII: The Far Field Response of an Air Gun Array

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” Robert Henri (1865-1929), American painter and teacher Read More

Is Shale Gas Bringing Independence?

Shale gas has helped the US to become the world’s largest gas producer. Will shale gas and shale oil production lead America to energy independence? The headline from the Forbes-INSIGHTS Read More

Goodbye to the Gas Guzzler!

The price of petrol at the pump in the US is – in fact, in some places has already exceeded – the psychologically important $4/gallon (EIA). Petrol prices have risen Read More

Florida – the next US frontier

Offshore Florida A west-east seismic line on the north side of the 3D survey shows the thinning of the Mesozoic (green to yellow) strata across the shelf and slope. A Read More

Unconventional Thinking

“Targeting unconventional resources requires unconventional thinking.” “Targeting unconventional resources requires unconventional thinking.” So stated the Exploration Vice President of Saudi Aramco, Abdulla Naim, at the recent GEO 2012 conference. And Read More

Africa: Continent of Discoveries

Africa conference will examine exciting new plays and developments. Africa continues to deliver exciting new oil and gas discoveries in emerging plays. There is great excitement offshore East Africa, from Read More

Switch – Starting an Energy Conversation

“(We) will make the right choices if we have the right information.” After first watching ‘Switch’, I thought I may be missing something. It bothered me through the night. Sure, Read More

Defining Reserves & Resources

Effective resource management in a globalizing economy requires accurate assessments of fossil energy and minerals resources. How can we ensure that countries, companies and organizations are all assessing and estimating Read More

Tight Oil Plays

Horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing technologies that have enabled companies to unlock large amounts of gas from shaley source rocks are now targeting similar rocks for oil and gas liquids. Read More

Malaysia: Two Gas Discoveries

At the tail end of 2011 Petronas, the state oil company of Malaysia, announced the success of an offshore well in moderately deep waters in Block SK316, about 100 km Read More

Mozambique: 2nd Giant Discovery in Block

As reported in GEO ExPro Vol.8, No. 6, exploration in the Mozambique’s deepwater Offshore Area 4 looks to be following the trend set by drilling in Area 1 to its Read More

Bringing the Lab to the Field

Bringing advanced laboratory analysis to the field: Weatherford International’s new formation evaluation service brings advanced, laboratory-based testing techniques to the field, enabling faster, more informed reservoir management decisions for unconventional Read More

The Many Lives of Belridge

Nearly declared dead by its owners only eight years after discovery, new technologies introduced over the past century allowed Southern California’s Belridge Field to grow into a prolific oil producer. Read More

The Colorado Plateau: A Geologist’s Paradise

Even if you have not been there, the Colorado Plateau is familiar to almost everyone through movies, commercials or – for students of geology – textbook examples. The Colorado Plateau Read More

Vibrant International Petroleum Week

Celebrating historical roots back to 1913 More than 2,000 oil and gas professionals from around the world gathered in London late February for the International Petroleum (IP) Week to listen Read More

Unconventional No Longer

What exactly are unconventional resources – and is it time we stopped using the term? The fundamental idea in this article is that oil and gas technology has progressed to Read More