Licensing Update Somalia: A Final Frontier Opens Up
Somalia’s first offshore licensing round commenced in August 2020, opening up one of the final frontier regions of the world for oil and gas exploration. Offshore Somalia is one of…
Africa
The Nile Delta: Oil & Gas Exploration Hot Spot of North Africa
The various plays of the Nile Delta continue to attract investment for major oil and gas exploration campaigns, with onshore and shallow water successes already in motion. For minnow and…
Kwanza Basin, Angola: Neogene tectonics and exploration
The Neogene dynamics of the onshore Kwanza Basin have significant implications for oil and gas exploration of blocks offered in the ongoing onshore licensing round. With the ongoing bid round…
Gabon: Staying ahead of the herd in the ultra-deep waters
Insert on main foldout line: AVO gradient intercept plot. De-risking deepwater plays offshore Gabon A seismic- and well-based approach reduces uncertainty over source rocks to bring insight to the hydrocarbon…
Australian Energy from Hydrogen
Following the launch of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain pilot in 2018, Australia has taken important step towards developing a hydrogen industry in May 2020 as key legislation passed through…
Could LNG Prove Transformational for Mozambique?
The LNG project in Mozambique started with the discovery of huge reserves of natural gas off the northern coast in 2010, will provide a range of social and economic benefits…
Morocco: Lixus offshore – how new data analysis techniques are transforming a basin
Figure 2: Merged Miocene top reservoir seismic amplitude map. Figure 3: Location map of the Lixus license in the offshore Rharb Basin (3D seismic extent in blue). Resolving Neogene clastic…
First independent hydrocarbon discovery in Ghana
In November 2019 Springfield Exploration and Production Limited are reported to have made two hydrocarbon discoveries totalling over 1.2 Bb of oil in offshore deepwater Ghana. In November 2019 Springfield…
Mauritania: Year’s largest gas find
The largest gas discovery of 2019 to date, which was made in the BP / Kosmos operated BirAllah area of offshore Mauritania, was announced in late October. The largest gas…
Billions at Play: The Future of African Energy and Doing Deals
Oil and gas in Africa – resource curse or blessing? Billions at Play By NJ Ayuk Clink Street Publishing, 2019. The phrase ‘resource curse’ is widely used in political economy…
North Gabon: lightning strikes connect the Gulf of Mexico subsalt trend to North Gabon
Figure 1: Final Velocity model (TVDSS). Detached salt bodies and well-defined salt flanks resulting from several iterations of manually picked salt bodies provided to constrain the tomographic updates. The tanzanites,…
Comoros Islands: Multi-Billion Barrel Deepwater Hydrocarbon Potential
Hopes are high for an exciting new frontier, with multi-billion barrel oil prospects in the same plays that have found giant gas fields in Mozambique. The ylang ylang tree in…