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The 1-meter sand that made the decisive call

“Multiple depositional systems can be responsible for creating the same sedimentary facies,” explains deepwater sedimentologist Wouter de Weger from the Earth Science Institute in Granada, Spain. “For that reason, when looking at an outcrop with a group of specialists, who…

Henk Kombrink and Wouter de Weger

October 14, 2026

Contrasting fortunes in Sub Saharan Africa

Exploration is firmly back on the agenda for many oil and gas companies, regulators and NOCs. This is especially clear in Africa, where large tracts of open exploration acreage have been taken up. This is particularly the case in West…

Peter Elliott, NVentures

October 13, 2026

Updip advantage in the Rukwa Basin

It all started when two geologists who were exploring for gold read an article in the local paper about helium seeps in the Rukwa Valley. They decided to make a detour and check it out for themselves. The men saw…

Mariël Reitsma

October 8, 2026

The sediment waves of Sangomar

I always try to pen down the most important topics discussed during conversations. And so it happened that I wrote down a few snippets following a conversation with a geologist I spoke to in London earlier this year. She told me…

Henk Kombrink

October 5, 2026

The deep-water architecture of northern Sierra Leone: A tale of two oceans

Figure 1: The new Northern Sierra Leone survey in the context of the western section of the WATM highlighting it’s location in the transition between transform and extensional rift segments. New licensing activity from the last 12 months is also…

Ben Sayers, GeoPartners, Paul Bellingham, BGP International, and Ian Bulley, PVE Consulting

September 23, 2026

Gravitating towards discoveries in Angola’s onshore Kwanza Basin

Unlocking pre-salt potential through integrated airborne geophysics Angola location map. Oil production in Angola began in the onshore Kwanza Basin, where early discoveries such as Benfica, Tobias and Quenguela North were made on seismic datasets acquired during the 1960s to…

Nithul Udayan, Christian Richards and Jonathan Watson, Metatek Group; Charles Thomas, Striped Horse

September 16, 2026

Listen to the drill bit

“Our runs are getting shorter and shorter…” That’s what Harrie and Nick from Aurora Drilling Optimisation Services were told by the Shell team that was drilling a deep onshore exploration well in Libya about 15 years ago. They helped design…

Henk Kombrink

September 3, 2026

Always on the lookout for new frontiers

“My mother was very patient with me,” says Cany Jobe. “When I needed to make a big decision about which direction to take in high school, I gave her a hard time. I didn’t want to choose between arts, science…

Henk Kombrink

September 3, 2026

The Keta Basin: Ghana’s deepwater frontier edges back into focus

The Keta Basin – a basin with familiar geological DNA The East Keta acreage lies in the central portion of the Accra-Keta-Benin basin, formed during the Middle Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic. Geologically, the basin shares some similarities with…

Dave McGurk, Heritage Oil Exploration & Production, Ghana

September 1, 2026

Offshore Angola: Exploring frontiers and fringes with new and reprocessed seismic

Angola’s continental margin hosts rich petroleum systems that have charged prolific reservoirs, creating a province with over 30 Bbbl of recoverable oil. Production, mainly from the Lower Congo Basin, peaked in 2008 at around 2 MMbbl/d and has since declined…

Matthew Plummer, TGS

August 31, 2026

Momentum behind the frontier Angoche and Save basins

Milton Zibane Natural gas in Mozambique is currently produced from four fields. Three of them, Pande, Temane and Inhassoro, are located onshore in the Mozambique basin, 520 km north of Maputo. The fourth, and most prolific field, Coral, is located…

Mariël Reitsma

August 31, 2026

Hydrocarbon seepage in the Karoo: South Africa’s Shale Gas Project reveals potential

South Africa’s Karoo Basin has long been known for scattered gas shows, oil‑stained fissures and occasional methane emissions from water boreholes. Yet the basin’s broader petroleum potential has remained uncertain. The Shale Gas Research Project, carried out by the Petroleum…

Mariël Reitsma

August 28, 2026

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

The 1-meter sand that made the decisive call

Contrasting fortunes in Sub Saharan Africa

Updip advantage in the Rukwa Basin

The sediment waves of Sangomar

The deep-water architecture of northern Sierra Leone: A tale of two oceans

Gravitating towards discoveries in Angola’s onshore Kwanza Basin

Listen to the drill bit

Always on the lookout for new frontiers

The Keta Basin: Ghana’s deepwater frontier edges back into focus

Offshore Angola: Exploring frontiers and fringes with new and reprocessed seismic

Momentum behind the frontier Angoche and Save basins

Hydrocarbon seepage in the Karoo: South Africa’s Shale Gas Project reveals potential

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