Sarawak Discoveries Boost Malaysia
Malaysia’s bid to turnaround the decline in its ageing petroleum reserves has exceeded expectations thanks to a series of major discoveries offshore Sarawak. Malaysia has long been a heavy hitter…
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Indonesia: New Regime Creates Expectations
What effect will the new modernizing president have on the oil and gas industry in Indonesia? Indonesian presidential elections held on July 9, 2014 saw Joko Widodo, leader of the Indonesian…
China Seeks More Gas
With its vast shale gas resources proving harder to access than anticipated, China is looking to Russian gas to satisfy its rising demand. China is believed to hold the world’s largest…
PNG Lands on the Petroleum Map
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is set to join the exclusive club of LNG exporting nations before mid-year when first cargoes ship from its US $19 billion LNG project. The ExxonMobil-operated facility was completed ahead of schedule…
North Korea – Hydrocarbon Exploration and Potential
Despite a challenging political situation, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea offers relatively low cost, low risk exploration opportunities, with nearby energy-hungry markets. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),…
The Kutch Basin of Western India
The fault blocks of the Kutch Basin in western India offer to the visitor a unique opportunity to observe the Jurassic-Cretaceous-Paleogene sediments rarely outcropping anywhere else on the Western Indian…
Turkey Moves Forward
Turkey revises 60-year-old law in a bid to attract investment for exploration Despite a lack of domestic production, Turkey remains pivotal for the international gas market as the country is the…
Rinjani: The ‘Big’ Volcano
Harry Matchette-Downes describes a trek to the summit of the volcano Rinjani, on Lombok, Indonesia, and down to the shores of its crater lake. The trek begins near the village…
Caspian Sea: Frontier exploration in the middle Caspian basin
CGG’s study area covers the offshore Middle Caspian Basin within Russia and Kazakhstan. A regional 2D seismic grid has been used to assess the area’s petroleum geology. This CGG multi-client dataset…
Kashagan comes onstream
Hailed as the largest oil field discovered in the last four decades, the Kashagan field is located about 80 km offshore Atyrau in the northern Caspian Sea. Discovered in 2000…
Power up! Selecting a 3D dataset for the 2013 licence round offshore Lebanon
Lebanon offshore: Promising play fairways and structures With the opening of the first Lebanese Offshore Round coming up, it is time for companies to assemble a ‘bidding dataset’ to support…
Preparing for the Global Economy
The donation made through GeoScienceWorld has helped educate Indonesia’s emerging workforce by increasing the breadth of the university’s library holdings and making peer-reviewed research more accessible and easier to use…