Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 3 is now available for download. This issue of GEO ExPro focuses on Europe; Robotics and Automation; Unconventional Resources and the Energy Transition.…
Hermann Lebit, Yermek Balabekov and Taylor Buckley; PGS
Figure 1: Major tectonic and structural elements of the Grand Banks. The pull-apart geometry of the Orphan Basin is well outlined by the breakup (Cretaceous) unconformity as well as the…
Last year, the North American E&P community saw a symbolic negative oil price blink, rig counts and production rates plummeting, a new US administration slapping moratoriums on federal land and…
BP with partners Cue Energy, Beach Energy and NZOG have completed drilling the Ironbark-1 wildcat in Block WA-359 offshore in the North Carnarvon Basin. BP with partners Cue Energy, Beach Energy and NZOG have completed drilling…
The Biden–Harris administration is continuing its comprehensive review of the offshore and onshore oil and gas leasing programmes in the Gulf of Mexico, with more environmental, social and governance (ESG)…
A multi-decade marathon to develop a unique African resource. In Johannesburg in 1998, a Rwandan government delegation came looking for assistance to develop an energy supply for their country. They…
Do the low volumes of hydrocarbons discovered – and produced – in Morocco suggest that its petroleum basins are simply underexplored or is it underperformance? There are three productive basins…
This article, from the second of our joint GEO ExPro student competition winners, focuses on overlooked onshore UK oil and gas prospectivity. A Rich History In 1851, wide seams of…
Susan Nash, the Director of Innovation and Emerging Science/Technology at the AAPG talks about how US unconventionals are adapting to a transitioning world Susan Nash, Director of Innovation and Emerging…
In mid-April this year, Angola’s National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) started a virtual and physical roadshow for its 2020/21 bid round. The acreage on offer comprises a total…
PTTEP announced in May its offshore Sirung-1 exploration well as an oil and gas discovery, intersecting a column of more than 100m in Miocene clastic reservoirs, in the shallow waters…
With drilling, coring and logging operations now complete on ReconAfrica’s PEL 73 6-2 well, clear evidence of a working conventional petroleum system has been shown in the Kavango Basin, onshore…