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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

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:…

Equatorial Guinea: Time to shine…again!

Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found and Neil Hodgson, Searcher
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

Matt Tyrrell, DDMS & Trois, James Dodson, GeoPartners, and Eunice Oliveira, ANPG
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

Madhurima Bhattacharya, Andy Holman, Paolo Gabrielli and Diego Lopez, Viridien
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…

Kharas-1 well might have two surprises in store

Henk Kombrink
As the exploration community read the news around Rhino Resources’ Volans-1X “high liquid-yield gas condensate” discovery this week – is it good news to have proven yet another fluid type?…