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…
Africa
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…
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…
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…