Exploration Update – Tanzania
Tanzania: Largest Onshore Discovery Although originally discovered in April 2015, recent investigations of the Mambakofi 1 gas discovery in the onshore Ruvu Basin in Tanzania have shown it to be…
Africa
The Gambia: the next major oil play?
Location of the Polarcus Block A2-A5 multi-client 3D seismic survey. Extension of a New Oil-Prone Fairway The SNE and FAN discoveries in neighboring Senegal have opened up a new oil-prone…
Exploration Update – Angola
Angola: Pre-Salt Discovery In the most significant non-Mauritania/Senegal well this year, and in fact the only West African discovery outside that area, Cobalt have announced a further pre-salt discovery on…
Central Atlantic African Exploration: Growth and Future Prospects
Despite the early promising discoveries of oil and gas in Senegal and Benin in the 1960s, hydrocarbon development in the Central Atlantic continental margin has been slow – until recent…
A Nigerian Renaissance
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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…
Quantitative interpretation reveals prospectivity of the Kwanza shelf, offshore Angola
Location of the new PGS multisensor GeoStreamer survey over the Kwanza Shelf, Offshore Angola (orange polygon). The 2021 licence round blocks are shown in yellow. Kwanza shelf potential petroleum systems…