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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

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…

The Exploration Country Manager

Jane Whaley
Mfon Udofia, Shell’s Exploration Manager for Algeria, gives us a few insights into the role and the skills and experience it requires. “This is a really exciting job, and one…

Transferring skills mitigates risk

Jamie Main, Protection Group International (PGI)
The discovery of huge hydrocarbon reserves will potentially transform East Africa. International energy companies are set to invest more than US$100 billion in developing the resources discovered in the last…

The Magnificent Southern Canadian Rockies

Anne Hargreaves
The Canadian Rocky Mountains rise majestically from the interior plains of Alberta, and the mechanisms which formed them are well illustrated on the scenic drive from Calgary to Banff and…

Improving Reservoir Characterisation

Lucy MacGregor, RSI Inc.
Reservoir characterisation can be improved through the integrated analysis of CSEM, seismic and well log data. Determining reservoir geometry and properties from the surface is a challenging but important task.…

River of Oil – Early Oil Exploration in Iraq

Michael Quentin Morton
Knowledgeable but squabbling geologists; summary dismissals; camel transport; ‘lagoonal’ oil; and 40m-high gushers. All in a day’s work for the first oil explorers in Iraq.