Asia

Investing in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Condor Energies (“Con­dor”) is a Canadian, Cal­gary-based, publicly listed (Toronto Stock Exchange) energy transition company focused on Central Asia. The company has distin­guished itself by building significant operations in KazakhstanKazakhstan…

Drilling around mud diapirs

Mud diapirs have long been enigmatic struc­tures in the subsurface. With older seismic data being of insufficient resolution to properly map them, companies often took a careful approach when it…

India to auction first offshore mineral blocks

India’s Ministry of Mines has announced that the country is en­tering offshore mineral production for the first time in its nearly 75-year history. This initiative aligns with India’s vision of…

Iran – not at a standstill

Iran is one of those countries you normally don’t hear a lot from. This is obviously exacerbated by the USA sanctions that are still in place and prevent the ex­change…

Iran to finally start producing helium

Redrawn after IHS Energy and Google Earth. Iran is set to join the exclusive group of helium-producing coun­tries. With the launch of its pilot project to extract and purify heli­um…

Indonesia bid round push continues

In Asia Pacific, Malaysia has been arguably the most successful coun­try in promoting its exploration and development opportunities over the past few years, with the vast majority of its acreage…

Large hydrogen seep found in the Philippines

The natural gas seeps at Mount Chimaera in Tur­key have been known since antiquity. They are easily recognis­able due to the constant burning of methane and hydrogen gas that seeps…

Action in Andaman

Before taking a dive into the past, recent and future ex­ploration activity in the An­daman Sea, it is good to take note of an important above-ground advantage of the area.…

The home of the world’s first deep-water gas development

Following World War II, a number of US-com­panies drilled onshore but never found anything commercial despite the presence of surface seeps. Fortunes changed in the 1970s with Cities Service making…

Can Oman engineer a subsurface hydrogen kitchen?

Exploration for geological hydrogen has taken off over the past few years. However, nothing close to a major success case has been reported yet. Companies such as Gold Hydrogen in…

Major new oil discovery in Cuu Long Basin Vietnam

Murphy Oil announced on 7th January that the Hai Su Vang-1X offshore exploration well, in block 15-2/17, Cuu Long Basin, has discovered oil. The well was spud in late September…