Mauritania Offshore Hints at Significant Reserves
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…
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What Lies Beneath the Deepwater Tano Basin?
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
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…
The Hoop Area: New Testing Ground for Geophysical Technologies
The Hoop Basin was named after Der Hoop, a ship belonging to one of the great Arctic explorers, William Barents. Meaning ’hope’ in his native Dutch, this continues to reflect…
Offshore Senegal: Sud Profond 3D illustrates potential
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?
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
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…
Guinea-Bissau: New insights into the geology and deepwater exploration potential
Improved imaging and new insights A detailed reconnaissance study of Polarcus’s 3D multi-client data has revealed a complex shelf to basin sediment transport system feeding into classic deepwater West African…
Bakken’s Billion Barrel Milestone
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
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
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
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…