Asia

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…

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…

Singapore – Slings, Storage and Success

A small, crowded, vibrant island – where there are few barriers if there is money to be made. As you sip an incredibly overpriced Singapore Sling in the famous Raffles…

Cairn Discovers Gas Offshore Sri Lanka

Cairn Lanka, a subsidiary of Cairn India, has struck gas in the offshore Gulf of Mannar Basin between Sri Lanka and the southern tip of peninsular India. ter a successful…

Along the Yangtze river

Approaching Chóngqìng Airport from the air, you fly in over the valley alongside the city for what feels like forever. The whole place appears to be balancing on several mountains,…

The South China Sea enigma

The South China Sea (SCS), which spans from Singapore and the Malacca Strait in the south to the Strait of Taiwan in the north, and from Borneo and the Philippines…