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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Middle East

Ghawar keeps on going

Henk Kombrink
In November last year, Aramco announced that it produced its first unconventional tight gas from the Ghawar South project, producing up to 300 mmscf/day of gas and 38 kbpd of…

New studies in the Levant Basin offshore Israel

Nick Stronach & Barbara Holzweber, GaffneyCline; Michael Gardosh & Maria Kachkachev-Shuifer, Israel Ministry of Energy
The Israeli Ministry of Energy has been at the centre of these activities, both from a technology and analysis and interpretation perspective. It has also facilitated recent initiatives and research…

An Exposed Salt Dome

Stuart Harker
The salt exposed here consists of halites of the Ara Salt, which was deposited around 540 million years ago during the earliest Cambrian. The core of the dome, where the…

Mesopotamia – the Cradle of Civilization

Halfdan Carstens
Several thousand years ago, between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, the rich and fertile soil of Mesopotamia gave birth to civilization. Today, deeply buried oil and gas reservoirs provide Mesopotamia…

Encouraging Exploration

Halfdan Carstens
In the barren landscape of the Syrian desert you may find an occasional drilling rig exploring for hydrocarbons. In the years to come several more rigs are expected to enter,…

Iraq: Targeting Giants in Kurdistan

Halfdan Carstens
Oil is flowing to the surface in several seeps within the license area, and nearby giant fields have been producing for decades. The well Tawke # 1 is certainly being…

Yemen – for the smaller players

Mona Holte
Despite Yemen’s modest and, as yet not fully explored, oil resources, the country has shown an impressive progress in the business. Since the preliminary geological studies started in the eighties,…

UAE – Looking Outward

Peter Elliot, NVentures Ltd
A cautious road to international participation in upstream exploration in the UAE, with hydrogen in hot pursuit. The Middle East is not a region associated with open international participation, since…