Asia

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…

Burma: Bid rounds both onshore and offshore

Myanmar, or Burma as it was previously known, is a south-east Asian country covering a total land area of approximately 678,500 km2 flanked by India and Bangladesh to the west, Thailand…

Will Lebanon be the next oil province?

MegaSurvey Key to Understanding Prospectivity The Ministry of Energy and Water of the Republic of Lebanon opened their first bid round on 2 May 2013 with a closing date of…

Central Asia: Cutting Edge Technology in Frontier Exploration

Central Asia represents an exciting frontier for oil exploration, from sub-salt to sub-thrust exploration. The region remains a hive of activity, boasting some of the largest oil and gas fields…

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: A Turbidite Paradise

Kota Kinabalu, the largest town in Sabah, Borneo, is a rapidly developing urban centre and a tourist attraction in South East Asia. To the geologist, this part of Sabah is…