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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

A Nigerian Renaissance

John Balch, Polarcus and Matt Lamont, DownUnder GeoSolutions
Full stack comparison at the target level. Legacy data versus the latest version of the pre-stack depth migration.   A clearer picture The Niger Delta is one of the most…

Offshore Somalia: East Africa’s oil frontier

Hannah Kearns, Jake Berryman, Neil Hodgson and Karyna Rodriguez, Spectrum
Somalia’s Exploration Journey Exploration in Somalia began onshore in 1956 with the drilling of the Sagaleh-1 well, followed by a number of wells drilled mostly in the north of the…

Exploration Update – Algeria

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Algeria: Triassic Discovery During early June 2016, Sonatrach made an oil and gas discovery in Algeria with its Oued Noumer Sud 1 (ONRS 1) new field wildcat. The discovery is…

After the Arab Spring: Hopes and Hazards in North Africa

Nicholas Wade, Menas Associates
The outcomes of political upheaval and insecurity in North Africa will be felt in the wider region and beyond, with Europe in particular either contributing to the region’s prosperity or…

Ivory Coast exploration in the transform margin

Patrick Coole, Matthew Tyrrell and Christine Roche. Petroleum Geo-Services.
Survey areas of the reprocessed 1996 data (yellow outline) and 2014 GeoStreamer® data (purple). Offshore Ivory Coast: reducing exploration risk In 1996 PGS acquired a 1,600 sq.km 3D survey over…

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…