Ben Asante: Riding the Wave
Benjamin Asante, until recently a senior geoscientist at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, has ridden the wave of Ghana’s national development. Although his story is full of significant and unusual…
Africa
Eddy Belle: Promoting the Seychelles
Eddy Belle is passionate about the hydrocarbon potential of the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa – and also about their natural and historical…
Duncan Clarke: Economics and the Oil Game in Africa
Duncan Clarke is one of the best known names in the upstream oil industry as an advisor to governments and oil companies, the author of a number of books, founder…
Oil and Gas Exploration in East Africa: A Brief History
East Africa is the emerging hydrocarbon province of the 21st Century – but it is worth remembering that this success comes after six decades of unsuccessful exploration. The exploration success…
Takoradi: Ghana’s Oil City.
Oil has been the catalyst for investment, reviving Takoradi’s fortunes as an export hub for Ghana’s many resources – but benefits to the local economy remain elusive. For the casual…
East Africa. Rays of a New Dawn.
As recently as 2006, East Africa had not figured on the global energy map other than as a cash-strapped importer of oil; now the region is established as one of…
Sand of Sea Dunes of Namib
Snuggled in against the south-western coast of Africa lies the Namib Desert, one of the driest and oldest deserts on Earth – but life abounds in this seemingly desolate environment.…
Côte d’Ivoire: completing the jigsaw
Base map of central offshore Côte d’Ivoire showing the PGS multiclient seismic data library, together with the location of the four wells discussed in the text. Awaken your structural geologist!…
East Africa – Riding High
East Africa is riding a wave of excitement and interest in the industry, with significant successes in offshore Mozambique, Uganda and Tanzania. Bimbola Kolawole, Business Development Manager, Africa with Rystad…
Petroleum potential on the offshore Namibe Basin
Location map with position of PGS regional 2D MultiClient surveys, the highlighted location of main seismic image and distribution of main salt and volcanic centres. Evolution, geology and prospectivity of…
Highly dependent on oil revenues
Algeria, with a current population of 36 million, has been an oil producing country since 1958. This was made possible by two commercial discoveries in 1956, Edjelleh and Hassi Messaoud,…
New plays from old: Frontier exploration at the Western Edge of Gabon’s Salt Basin
Gabon, world-class frontier exploration targets Seriously underexplored, the potential for deepwater Gabon to provide a spectacular future for sub-salt discoveries is very promising. Although Gabon’s southern salt basin extends over an…