Renaissance ramps up exploration activity in Nigeria
“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…
Africa
Predicting viscosity in an undrilled panel of a deep-water field in West Africa
In 2023, the rapid oil production decline from the Bombadil Field (fictitious name), deep-water West Africa, triggered the necessity to develop additional resources. This is the moment prospect E appears…
Cameroon: Unlocking potential and reigniting exploration
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
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
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?
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
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…
The search for barrels in Bissau – exploration renascimento in the southern MSGBC
Investor confidence is returning to the West Africa oil frontier, with major oil companies taking large basin-scale positions in Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The map of West Africa offshore…
Libya – exploration stories
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:…
Equatorial Guinea: Time to shine…again!
Blue skies over Malabo Time for Equatorial Guinea’s next day in the sun Figure 1: License blocks in EG. Equatorial Guinea, “EG”, is a unique land in a myriad of…
The New Gas Consortium: Angola’s first non-associated gas project
How broadband pre-stack depth reprocessing, with a post-stack survey merge for the migrated OBC and streamer volumes, has enabled the development of 50-year-old gas fields Multiclient reprocessing of recovered legacy…
Mozambique: Revealing exploration potential of deepwater Zambezi Delta
Mozambique’s deepwater Zambezi Basin: Where AVO meets untapped opportunity Integrating AVO analysis into frontier workflows to identify exploration opportunities Assessing frontier basin prospectivity with limited subsurface data presents significant challenges…