Australasia

Australia’s Beetaloo shale play

The Beetaloo Basin has, until recent years, been underexplored, with explorers believing the Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic (1.0–1.7 billion years ago) sequences too old to support hydrocarbons. However, following successful drilling…

Searcher Diversifies into Mining Sector

Searcher, a leading service provider of geoscience products for oil and gas exploration and production companies, has announced its expansion into the mining sector. Searcher, a leading service provider of…

Taste the Geoheritage of Auckland, New Zealand

Boutique volcanoes, fossil forests and pillow lava fans are some of the amazing geological features around New Zealand’s largest city. Most tourists coming to New Zealand land in Auckland and,…

US $11 Billion of Australian Gas Projects

Wood Mackenzie’s Australasian upstream 2021 outlook report shows at least US$11 billion of gas projects poised for Final Investment Decision (FID) in 2021. Wood Mackenzie’s Australasian upstream 2021 outlook report…

Cleaning Up Oil Spills

Waste to tackle waste. Researchers at Flinders University in Australia have come up with a novel way to clean up oil spills, using waste cooking oil from fast food outlets.…

Australia’s Amazing South West Corner

The iconic drive along the Great South West Edge of Australia is the trip of a lifetime with plenty to interest both the geo-tourist and the nature lover.   The…

Australia: depth reprocessing rejuvenates Gippsland Basin

Changing perceptions ReGeneration project overcomes the imaging challenges of the Gippsland Basin. Over the last ten years CGG has gained extensive experience in the processing and reprocessing of legacy datasets…

Oil and Gas Exploration in Australia

After several low years of oil and gas exploration activity in Australia, it looks as though drilling potential is picking up. At the beginning of 2018 exploration spend offshore Australia…

Licensing Update – New Zealand

New Zealand has a long history of petroleum production, dating back to 1865, when the Alpha well was dug near seeps in Taranaki. This was followed by other wells in…

Australia: New imaging of the vulcan sub-basin

The Vulcan Sub-basin The Cygnus survey is located in the southern Vulcan Sub-basin, one of the most prospective areas of the Bonaparte Basin, containing oils that are normally very light.…