Offshore wildcat drilling set to resume in Morocco
After a five-year lull, bar Chariot’s appraisal drilling at Anchois, Eni and partners Qatar Energy and ONHYM will spud the Cinnamon 1 well in early summer 2023. Eni was the…
Africa
Green helium exploration is set for a breakthrough
Up to recently, helium was not actively explored for but mainly found by accident while drilling for hydrocarbons. Concentrations as low as 0.3% helium in the gas stream already make…
De-risking the Cabora Bassa Basin, Zimbabwe
Early January 2023, the Australian Junior Oil Company Invictus Energy completed the drilling of the Mukuyu 1 well, and subsequent sidetrack, in the Cabora Bassa Basin of Northern Zimbabwe. Invictus…
Angolan Kwanza Basin – expanding proven opportunities
Kwanza Basin – a pre-salt success story? Historically, exploration activity has focused on the prolific Lower Congo Basin in Northern Angola, concentrating on the post-salt Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary reservoirs.…
Download Africa Oil Week’s Post-Event Report Today
Africa Oil Week 2022 saw the continent define an assertive new position to determine how best to balance sustainability within its own needs. Across the five content streams these important…
The rise of Venus in Uruguay’s Pelotas Basin
Uruguay plays Namibia on number 1 court The “Most interesting Basin in the World” ball has been batted across the Atlantic regularly for the last 30 years. Early deep-water success…
The natural hydrogen field without pressure depletion
Naturally occurring hydrogen is now being produced in Mali from what seems an active hydrogen kitchen.
Baleine discovery: Côte D’Ivoire’s exploration “Black Swan”
The Tano Basin – revealing late cretaceous depositional styles in a frontier basin A recent seismic stratigraphic analysis demonstrates the presence of key petroleum system elements and the potential to…
Chasing the many plays of the Mauritanian Margin
An overview map of the Mauritanian Margin. PSDM transverse with velocity overlay through the Mauritania 3D data, showing the syn-rift section (including allochthonous and partially migrated Triassic salt, deposited in…
The High Impact Hydrocarbon Potential of the Orange Basin
While the Mississippi, Congo, Nile, and many other major deltas around the world have been, and are being, successfully explored and developed, the vast Orange Basin offshore South Africa and…
Exploration opportunities in the Gambia and Senegal
Credit: TGS, GeoPartners. Connecting the shelf to the deepwater A flurry of hydrocarbon exploration activity continues in The Gambia and Senegal, and it is fuelled by drilling successes. The Gambia,…
North Africa Round-Up
The North Africa region offers huge energy opportunities, but the bottom line is that its social challenges need to be solved. The North Africa region offers huge opportunities, but the…