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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

A new frontier for Nigeria’s stranded associated gas

Chimezie Uduba, Barikorndum Needam, Adedotun Olalere, Chinweike Okeke, Temim Yusuf, Rasak Sunmonu, Kazeem A. Lawal and Segun Owolabi, FIRST E&P
Nigeria’s Niger Delta remains one of the world’s most prolific hydrocarbon provinces. Yet, the region continues to grapple with the challenge of managing and monetising asso­ciated gas (AG) in oil…

Inside every Basin you know is another Basin you haven’t met

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher; Genevieve Hirchfeld, Dheeraj Biharie, Mitch Jie A Looi, Vanisha Chedi, Sharista Kisoensingh and Nohar Poeketi, Staatsolie
Suriname’s north west sub-basin: An extension to the Golden Lane “Trendology” is often derided as an exploration strategy until it is apparent that a trap style in a regionally working…

Renaissance ramps up exploration activity in Nigeria

Henk Kombrink
“To meet the economic demands of the Nation and mandates given by the Federal Government, we need to increase production,” says Johnbosco Uche, “that is one of our main targets…

Cameroon: Unlocking potential and reigniting exploration

Misha Isakov and Graham Cooke, Viridien
Play diversity and untapped promise – A new licensing round opens fresh horizons in Cameroon Opening the door to discovery Cameroon’s 2025 Licensing Round, launched by the Société Nationale des…

The Gambia’s offshore acreage is hot again

Henk Kombrink
The West-African margin is back in the exploration spotlight, not only because of yesterday’s announcement by Shell to drill more wells on their PEL-39 licence in Namibia – but also…

New modelling study reveals a petroleum system overlying oceanic crust offshore Equatorial Guinea

José Miguel Gorosabel-Araus And Paul Mann, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Andrew Pepper, This Is Petroleum Systems
The deepwater Douala-Rio Muni Basin (DRMB) is a non-volcanic, Mes­ozoic-Cenozoic rifted pas­sive margin located offshore in Equatorial Guinea (EG), West Africa. Commercial oil and gas fields have been dis­covered on…

Unlocking Egypt’s Western Desert: The next Eagle Ford?

Henk Kombrink
When people think of unconventional oil, their minds prob­ably go straight to North America, where long hori­zontals and multilaterals drilled in heavily faulted plays have unlocked massive gas, liquids, and…

Imaging prospective sedimentary strata offshore Equatorial Guinea

Lisa Fullarton, Nick Lee, Chris Johnston, Meren Energy and Alex Clark, Eliis
In recent years, exploration has increasingly shifted toward Creta­ceous deep-water sandstones across the broader Atlantic Basin, resulting in a series of major discoveries over the past 15 years. Considerable potential…

Libya – exploration stories

Henk Kombrink
In his book “The prize”, Daniel Yergin describes how Libya’s entry on the global oil stage in the 1950s was spectacular and engineered wisely. Yergin quotes the Libyan pe­troleum minister:…