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Why target the surface synclines in the flat foreland of a fold-and-thrust belt?

Graham Banks, Route to Reserves Consulting

October 13, 2025

Imagine an onshore petroleum province that has three proven plays and a supergiant oil field suddenly opening up for international business and exploration companies. Except, it has no modern seismic…

Steadily, Saudi Arabia keeps finding more hydrocarbons

Henk Kombrink

June 18, 2025

Volumes weren’t mentioned in the press release that was issued early April, but the tone was clear nonetheless; Aramco is determined to find new volumes of oil and gas, and…

Not-so-hot volcanic rocks in Saudi Arabia

Henk Kombrink

April 16, 2025

This in what a team of researchers concluded in a paper published in the journal Geothermics this year. It must have been a bit of a surprise to find very…

Oil in porous intrusive rocks

John Smewing

March 10, 2025

Basement plays are found in quite a few areas globally and have been well studied and reported on. Norway, Yemen, Vietnam and China are amongst those places where oil is…

A major and not-on-trend discovery in Kuwait

Henk Kombrink

October 28, 2024

Kuwait is not the first country one would associate with places ramping up efforts to discover more oil. At the end of the day, the small Gulf country is home…

United Arab Emirates – unlocking the new sources of oil and gas

Jessica Elliott, Middle East Analyst, NVentures Ltd

August 5, 2024

Eni, RakGas and SNOC have started drilling their first exploration well Fennec 1 on Onshore Block 7, Ras al Khaimah, a key project in the UAE’s energy sector. This well…

Not one, but seven new discoveries announced in Saudi Arabia

Henk Kombrink

July 3, 2024

Just a couple of days ago, Reuters published a short article stating that Saudi Arabia’s energy minister announced the discovery of seven oil and gas accumulations in the country. As…

In the heart of the global economy

Henk Kombrink

May 23, 2024

The Aramco compound – where most of the work is done to keep the Saudi oil machine turning – is still situated in the exact same area where the story…

Oil – and increasingly gas – on steroids

Henk Kombrink

February 21, 2024

“We went from two to nineteen mudlogging units recently”, said a representative from Geolog at the IPTC Conference in Saudi Arabia this week. “It is obvious that things are picking…

A tent and a rig

Henk Kombrink

February 15, 2024

Looking out of the plane window when approaching Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s oil capital, the darkness of the desert is interrupted by star-shaped lights in places. I wondered what they were…

Are outcrops the key to unlock the CCUS potential in the Middle East?

Raffik Lazar - GeomodL International

February 7, 2024

The Middle East region is under the spotlight of the carbon-neutral worldwide ambition. COP28 was a testimony of the effort put by the regional energy powerhouses. What if the success…

Oil in the Dammam field overburden – lateral migration or an imperfect seal?

Henk Kombrink

February 6, 2024

Next week, I’ll be attending the IPTC Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It made me look at the local geology of the area, only then to realise that Dammam is…

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Middle East

Why target the surface synclines in the flat foreland of a fold-and-thrust belt?

Steadily, Saudi Arabia keeps finding more hydrocarbons

Not-so-hot volcanic rocks in Saudi Arabia

Oil in porous intrusive rocks

A major and not-on-trend discovery in Kuwait

United Arab Emirates – unlocking the new sources of oil and gas

Not one, but seven new discoveries announced in Saudi Arabia

In the heart of the global economy

Oil – and increasingly gas – on steroids

A tent and a rig

Are outcrops the key to unlock the CCUS potential in the Middle East?

Oil in the Dammam field overburden – lateral migration or an imperfect seal?

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