Licensing Update – Israel
First Round Announced A string of recent giant gas discoveries in Israeli, Egyptian and Cypriot waters in the Eastern Mediterranean have heightened interest in this previously relatively overlooked area. Encouraged…
Middle East
Doha – The Pearl of Qatar
Over the last 70 years, Doha has risen from the sands of the desert to become a major, glamorous regional power. Qatar is a peninsula 160 km long and up…
Where Wise Birds Stay Awhile
Qeshm Island: Geoheritage Pearl versus Gasfields in the Persian Gulf? WEB UPDATE 2016 This article first appeared in our iPad edition (2013) and as we were preparing it for debut on…
East Baghdad Super-Giant Field Under a Populated Area
The super-giant East Baghdad oil field lies in the heavily populated outskirts of Baghdad. Can it be successfully and safely exploited? Prior to 1956, the eastern part of the Baghdad…
Unlocking the Petroleum Potential of Iran
GIS databases are a powerful tool for minimising exploration risk in Iranian hydrocarbon basins through geospatial analysis. Iran’s enormous surface area stretches over 2,300 km in a north-west to south-easterly…
Petroleum Basins of Yemen
Yemen’s petroleum resource base will be a critical part of reconstruction efforts once peace is restored, but this will require high-resolution exploration and development in both onshore producing basins and…
Khuff: A Major Reservoir
The Permo-Triassic Khuff reservoir is one of the most productive gas fields in the world. What are the factors which have helped it to become so prolific? Available online for…
Iran After Sanctions: Opportunities and Risks
Iran provides a significant opportunity to access low cost production for the right companies. In response to the removal of sanctions, we take a look at the opportunities and challenges,…
Lebanon. The New Levantine Exploration Opportunity.
Lebanon lies at the centre of known regional hydrocarbon systems, but it is poorly explored and understood, possibly due to topographic challenges to terrestrial geophysical acquisition. A recently acquired suite…
The Petroleum Gulf
Oil Discoveries off the Arabian Shore In that gulf, there was no continental shelf; its waters were not very deep and nowhere exceeded 75 fathoms. The geologists had ascertained that…
Markets Behaving Differently
The Middle East – one of the most stable E&P markets The Middle East is the largest producing area within the E&P industry, with a total production of around 41 MMboepd…
The Triassic Margin Play
The Triassic margin is a significant but underexplored frontier play in the Levant region, particularly in Jordan. The Levant covers a large onshore area in the East Mediterranean region including…