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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

Ghana – from African Star to IMF Bail-out.

Nikki Jones
Despite the government’s protestations that oil revenues would be managed transparently, corruption, debt and economic mismanagement are now creating tension, as Ghana succumbs to the resource curse. In 2007 Kosmos…

Deepwater Kwanza Basin

Cian O’Reilly, Dario Chisari, James Clarke, Sadiqah Musa, Dr. Jennifer Halliday, Ian Deighton , Erika Tibocha and Paul Chandler, TGS
Comparing the Brazilian and Angolan Conjugate Margin Comparisons with Brazilian analogues can help with pre-salt exploration in the Kwanza Basin. Brazilian pre-salt exploration success prompted enthusiasm for the conjugate Kwanza…

Mauritania Offshore Hints at Significant Reserves

Ken White
As the surge of oil and gas exploration activity on the African continent continues apace, a clutch of countries, including Mauritania, are emerging as particular hot-spots on a continent filled…

What Lies Beneath the Deepwater Tano Basin?

Javier Martin, Gregor Duval and Lucie Lamourette, CGG
Hunting for Jubilee-like prospects in Côte d’Ivoire Boosted by recent discoveries, Côte d’Ivoire has seen renewed interest in its deepwater offshore basin over the last few years. Up until 2011,…

Offshore Mauritania and Senegal

Nicolas Hand, Azzurra Cillari, Ian Edwards and David Jackson. Dolphin Geophysical Multi-Client New Ventures.
Location of main foldout line.   Slope/Channel Complexes Offshore North West Africa Newly acquired and reprocessed seismic reveals potential masked by complex geometries. In 2011 TGS and Dolphin Geophysical acquired a…

Offshore Senegal: Sud Profond 3D illustrates potential

Nicolas Hand and David Jackson, Dolphin Geophysical Multi-Client New Ventures
Figure 1: An intra-Jurassic TWT surface over the 3D survey area with incised feeder valleys and karstified carbonate terrain. Downdip, there is an amplitude extraction highlighting the Late Cretaceous slope…

Tanzania: Third LNG Train Likely?

GEO ExPro & IHS
The partnership of BG (operator) and Ophir have confirmed an important new gas discovery in deepwater Block 1, Tanzania. Drilled using the ‘Deepsea Metro 1’ drillship, the Taachui 1ST well, close to the…

Côte d’Ivoire: Key Deepwater Find

GEO ExPro & IHS
Although untested, the Total-operated Saphir-1XB in Block CI-514 is described as an important discovery in a frontier part of deepwater offshore Côte d’Ivoire, as it has demonstrated a working petroleum system. Located in a water depth…

Bakken’s Billion Barrel Milestone

Will Thornton
The Bakken shale means that North Dakota is now the second largest producing state in the US. Late in 2013 the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated crude oil production…