A sleeping giant
As the United States pours funding into the development of clean, reliable energy, the competition among candidates – including geothermal, nuclear and batteries – seems like a horse race as…
North America
OBN Seismic Unlocks New Play Potential in the Gulf of Suez
Rejuvenating exploration in the Gulf of Suez through the application of modern wide azimuth OBN seismic technology. The Gulf of Suez is a prolific rifted hydrocarbon province that has been…
Venus-1X: Introducing a New Distal Basin Floor Fan Play for Margins
TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil with associated gas on the Venus prospect, located in Block 2913B in the Orange Basin, offshore southern Namibia. Map showing location…
Karau-1:Onshore Success Revives Hydrocarbon Activity in Timor-Leste
Good news from onshore Timor-Leste: Karau-1, which spudded late October 2021 in Block TL-OT-17-08, was reported in mid-December 2021 as discovering oil and gas. Good news from onshore Timor-Leste, where…
South America – Licensing Slows
South America and the Caribbean is currently seeing less licensing activity, at least partially because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on frontier exploration, which has prompted international oil…
Mexico: Onshore to Offshore
From the 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to modern times, Mexico has been bound to oil. Although no longer in the top ten of the world’s leading producers, shale gas may change…
Global Wildcatting – Going with the Flow
The extended impact of uncertain oil prices, combined with the Covid-19 pandemic and dwindling investor sentiment for hydrocarbons, have resulted in further delays, and in some cases cancellations, of already…
Graff-1: On the Cusp of Hydrocarbon Success in Namibia
Shell has made a ‘significant oil and gas discovery’ at the Graff-1 well offshore Namibia. Shell has made a ‘significant oil and gas discovery’ at the Graff-1 well offshore Namibia. It is unclear…
An oil prone frontier basin
A multitude of geological data suggests that the petroleum system is in place. Rich, voluminous source rocks, likely migration paths, good reservoir rocks and huge traps all make the Seychelles…
Market Update
2008: Planet Earth, Sound of Geology; International Workshop in Bergen, 26.-28. April 2006, Software for the Asset Team, Will there be a Saudi oil shock to shake the World economy?,…
Episodic Global Tectonics: Sequence Stratigraphy Meets Plate Tectonics
Based on recent advances in plate tectonics, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, I suggest that the Earth is affected by relatively short-lived episodes of increased tectonic activity separated by longer intervals…
Contributing to a Greater Good
Dr. Lee T. Billingsley is presently President-Elect, and from July 1 he will be President of AAPG for one year. We have talked with Dr. Billingsley about his views on…