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Invisible gold discovery in Japan

The tiny volcanic island of Aogashima, located 360 km south of Tokyo, consists of Quaternary extrusive rocks and experienced its last eruption in 1785. 12 km from its shores is a submarine caldera, aptly named Higashi-Aogashima, which literally means “east…

Ronny Setså

November 9, 2026

Using new data to unlock prospectivity in the Philippines

Figure 1: Philippines and fields, discoveries, and dataset as mentioned in the text. Odysseus of the Philippines “Sing, O Muse, of the basins hidden beneath the seas of the Philippines, of oil and gas-soaked reefs that rise as towers beneath…

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher

November 3, 2026

The core of Khorat

Surrounded by the Phetchabun and Annamitic foldbelts in Thailand and Laos / Vietnam respectively, sits the only mildly deformed Khorat Plateau. The region has seen a long history of exploration. Union Oil was the first company granted exploration rights on…

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co

October 22, 2026

The jewel in the crown

The Philippines’ upstream sector is seeing a resurgence, bolstered by Prime Energy’s successful wells at Malampaya East-1 and Camago-3 just ahead of the recent SEAPEX Conference and Exhibition in Manila. Together with a string of recent concession awards, this has…

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co

June 30, 2026

Japex’ hopes to prove commercial gas offshore Japan down following completion of exploration well in Hidaka Trough

Japex completed an offshore exploration campaign in the Hidaka Trough last week, a tectonically active foreland basin in the north of Japan. The well, drilled at a water depth of 1,900 m, has however failed to find commercial volumes of…

Henk Kombrink

June 15, 2026

Japan retrieves rare-earth-rich mud from 6,000 m in deep-sea’s first

Japan has successfully retrieved sediment containing rare earth elements (REE) from the seabed off Minami-Torishima Island in the Pacific Ocean, some 1,900 km south-east of Tokyo. At nearly 6,000 m below the sea surface, the mission marked the world’s first…

Ronny Setså

June 2, 2026

Carbon capture and mineralisation pilots in the Middle East

44.01 named their company after the mass of the molecule that is central to their business: Carbon Dioxide. They use CO2 captured from industry or the atmosphere and dissolve it in water to create a carbonated injection fluid, a kind…

Mariël Reitsma

April 29, 2026

Eni’s success in the Kutei Basin continues

Eni announced a major gas discovery at the Geliga-1 wildcat in the Ganal block, offshore Indonesia’s Kutei Basin in April 2026. The well, approximately 70km offshore, is estimated to contain around 5 Tcf of gas and 300 million barrels of…

Jonathan Craig, NVentures

April 28, 2026

Geliga-1 – the gas discovery sourced by sandstones

Today, operator ENI and partner SINOPEC (18%) announced a new giant gas and condensate discovery in the Kutei Basin, offshore East Kalimantan in Indonesia. According to ENI, the new find may host up to 5 Tcf of gas and 300…

Henk Kombrink

April 20, 2026

Conjugate margins in the Indian Ocean

The concept of conjugate margins as a geological model on which to base exploration strategy is well established in the Atlantic, where the extensional plate boundaries and geomorphology are clear and definitive. But other oceans also have conjugate margins, and…

Madeleine Slatford, NVentures

April 15, 2026

A big new discovery or a confirmation of what was already known

The Chinese are quite good at issuing press releases at interesting moments, and the one announcing the discovery of 100 M t (around 720 MMbbl) of oil in the Bohai Basin is yet another good example. Published on the 24th…

Henk Kombrink

March 3, 2026

Karabash – West Siberia’s new frontier?

The region of Karabash sits in the southern part of Khanty-Mansiysk and Tyumen. Historically, oil and gas developments have been more limited in this part of West Siberia, as the region is underlain by a series of grabens which have…

Dominic Lewenz, Welligence

February 6, 2026

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Asia

Invisible gold discovery in Japan

Using new data to unlock prospectivity in the Philippines

The core of Khorat

The jewel in the crown

Japex’ hopes to prove commercial gas offshore Japan down following completion of exploration well in Hidaka Trough

Japan retrieves rare-earth-rich mud from 6,000 m in deep-sea’s first

Carbon capture and mineralisation pilots in the Middle East

Eni’s success in the Kutei Basin continues

Geliga-1 – the gas discovery sourced by sandstones

Conjugate margins in the Indian Ocean

A big new discovery or a confirmation of what was already known

Karabash – West Siberia’s new frontier?

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