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There are plenty of positive indications for hydrocarbons in Zanzibar, including oil

July 26, 2024

Launched in March this year, the Zanzibar 1st Licensing Round offers a large frontier area with both oil and gas potential. There are 8 blocks available, named Block 1A to…

Rise of onshore exploration campaigns in southwest Africa

Peter Elliott - NVentures

July 11, 2024

ReconAfrica has spud the Naingopo exploration well onshore northeast Namibia on PEL 73 (partners Namcor) on July 7, 2024. This latest drilling campaign will be the first to target the…

The genesis of natural hydrogen exploration

James Dodson, HydroGenesis

June 17, 2024

HydroGenesis believe that natural hydrogen exists in large quantities in the subsurface, we just haven’t been looking in the right place. We are developing an exploration concept to pioneer this…

This is what David Sturt said in 2018: “Plenty of hydrocarbon potential off Namibia”

Henk Kombrink

May 29, 2024

David Sturt, Chief Operating Officer of Azinam Limited, a Namibia-focused exploration company, spoke at Africa Oil Week in Cape Town in November 2018. A month before that, we published this…

Namibia’s Orange Basin and the holey slope mystery

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found, Searcher

May 13, 2024

On any 2D dip line, we can see several almost triangular notches, divots or holes in the seabed, some 1.5 km in width and 250 m deep. Upslope, the divot…

Activity and opportunities abound across the Africa region

Peter Elliott - NVentures

April 22, 2024

E&P across Africa in 2024 is off to a busy start, with clear signs the exploration industry is recovering from half a decade of under-investment. Exploration activity is still focused…

Getting close to Mopane

Henk Kombrink

April 22, 2024

For obvious reasons, there has been a lot of media coverage today on the test results of the Mopane-1X well in Namibian waters. The well flowed at 14 kboepd at…

A working petroleum system on purely oceanic crust

Christian Niño*, Francisco Silva, Diana Rocha, Teresa Martins, Sara Pestana, Martin Zubiri* - GALP

March 25, 2024

*Christian Niño currently works at Petronas and Martin Zubiri works at Pan American Energy. For a long time, exploring for hydrocarbons in the deep waters of the Gulf of Guinea,…

Why the conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil may have even more to offer than the Orange Basin in Namibia

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher, and Pablo Rodriguez and Bruno Conti, ANCAP

March 18, 2024

Gondwanan break-up-basins and their multiple source rocks The advantage of Namibia’s conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil is likely to be the sand and clay deposited by the Rio…

Monitoring a geothermal motor

Henk Kombrink

February 13, 2024

Following the drilling of successful exploration wells into the Kenyan Rift Valley in the 1970’s, the flagship Olkaria geothermal field has seen a steady development to a capacity of around…

New light oil discovery draws attention away from the Orange Basin central axis to northern promise

Peter Elliott - NVentures

February 9, 2024

Reports continue to come in from the Namibia Orange Basin drilling campaigns of Shell, TotalEnergies and Galp, lighting up this enormous Cretaceous delta basin for future production potential. Shell are…

What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?

Henk Kombrink

January 26, 2024

This week, Namibia’s petroleum commissioner Maggy Shino announced that Shell has thus far discovered 200 million barrels of recoverable oil at Graff and 300 million barrels of recoverable oil at…

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Africa

There are plenty of positive indications for hydrocarbons in Zanzibar, including oil

Rise of onshore exploration campaigns in southwest Africa

The genesis of natural hydrogen exploration

This is what David Sturt said in 2018: “Plenty of hydrocarbon potential off Namibia”

Namibia’s Orange Basin and the holey slope mystery

Activity and opportunities abound across the Africa region

Getting close to Mopane

A working petroleum system on purely oceanic crust

Why the conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil may have even more to offer than the Orange Basin in Namibia

Monitoring a geothermal motor

New light oil discovery draws attention away from the Orange Basin central axis to northern promise

What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?

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