Uganda: Key to Future Hotspots in Landlocked Africa?
The East African Rift System is now one of the world’s ‘exploration hotspots’, potentially just as significant for landlocked Africa and its underexplored rift systems as the Barnett Shale in…
Africa
Sudan and South Sudan Conflict Increases Pressure on Oil Prices
On 9 July 2011 when South Sudan finally gained independence from Khartoum, we warned against the risk of increasing political tension as several critical issues had not been resolved before…
Cairo: City of a Thousand Minarets
Built upon power struggles and commerce, and dominated by the magnificent River Nile, Cairo is one of the most exciting cities in the world. If you have ever been to…
Learning from the Past?
As this edition of GEO ExPro magazine bears out, some of the most exciting areas in the oil and gas industry at the moment are in Africa; and not the…
Libya – the next chapter
After more than six months of civil unrest and over 40 years of an increasingly wayward and unpredictable military dictatorship, the people of Libya are taking stock – and that…
Pre-Salt Exploration Trends in the Kwanza Basin
The continued application of new technologies is opening up a new exploration frontier in the deepwater Kwanza Basin. Since the discovery of the Girassol field by Elf in 1996, most…
A Truly Magical Place
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Northern Tanzania is a World Heritage site renowned for its beauty and unique wildlife and one of the few places where active continental break-up and…
New Digital Africa Maps
New digital maps, based on ones originally produced by Africa specialist Ed Purdy, should shed new light on the exploration of the continent. Ed Purdy was an explorationist, academician and…
From Palm Oil to Petroleum
Lagos: the Liverpool of West Africa Lagos is famous for its teeming crowds and chaotic traffic jams, full to the brim with noise, pollution and crime. As the commercial centre…
The Cape Peninsula
Spectacular, extraordinary, awe-inspiring: Table Mountain and the Cape Peninsula in South Africa are more than just a list of superlatives, with much of interest to offer the visiting geologist. It…
An Underexplored Salt Province
A thirty year independence struggle with Ethiopia means that the natural resources of Eritrea remain largely untapped, but there is ample evidence that this now peaceful country is highly prospective…
Pre-salt basins identified in Gabon deepwater area
The section around the Tupi discovery offshore Brazil (far left) compares with the section (near left) from another line in South Gabon. Note that the Tupi example is a Reverse…