Major Gas Success for Eni in the Mahakam Delta
20 years after the discovery well, Eni has drilled a successful appraisal to the Maha gas field in the mature Mahakam Delta within the Kutei Basin, offshore Indonesia. Eni…
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Private Equity Firms Drive UK Oil and Gas Activity
Despite a drop in new exploration and appraisal drilling in the UK offshore sector, the industry remains very buoyant compared to other parts of the world. Since the first hydrocarbons…
GEO ExPro Vol. 18, No. 3 Out Now!
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.…
The Greater Orphan Basin: unraveling Newfoundland’s emerging energy plays
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…
Hydrocarbon Hot Spot: North America
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…
Australia: Key Farm-in Well Comes Up Dry
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…
Gulf of Mexico: The Wind of Change
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 Long Route to Lake Kivu
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…
Productive Petroleum Basins of Morocco
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…
UK Onshore Palaeozoic
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…
Angola’s ANPG Promotes Onshore Exploration
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…
Extending the Highly Productive Gas Play in Sarawak, Offshore Malaysia
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…