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:…
Africa
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…
Kharas-1 well might have two surprises in store
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?…
Revisiting the southern boundary of Sangomar
Recently published maps of the Sangomar field offshore Senegal depict the southern boundary of the accumulation exactly lining up with the maritime boundary between Senegal and The Gambia, suggesting that…
West African deepwater plays Tracking the Cretaceous mega-clastic systems
Unlocking deepwater potential Exploration in the Mauritanian coastal basin has historically focused on the Cenozoic salt-draped channel plays, as proven by the discovery of the Chinguetti Field in 2001. Since…
Are half of the Tano Basin’s reservoirs in the Keta Basin?
Ghana’s ascendancy as a significant oil and gas producer commenced with the landmark Jubilee discovery in 2007, leading to first oil in 2010. This success was subsequently reinforced by the…
It’s all in the planning
Angola is host to a number of recent exploration highlights, driven by a well-organised and energetic energy regulator, ANPG and a strong appetite for low-risk growth in the upstream sector.…
A large natural hydrogen gas accumulation or an aqueous hydrogen seepage with localised gas pockets?
The Bourakebougou (Bougou) field in Mali has made headlines as the “world’s first producing hydrogen field”. It has been described as a “large accumulation of hydrogen gas in carbonate and…
A Libyan core in Scotland
Issue 3 came very close to the wire, and it was a marathon! Most people expect this magazine to appear at regular two-months intervals, but our agenda is very much…
The future has arrived
Figure 1: Location of the 3D seismic datasets acquired between 2022 and 2024 in the Orange and Pelotas Basins. Contourites: When everything going sideways saves the day Though complex in…