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…
North America
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…
Establishing a Working Petroleum System in the Kavango Frontier, Onshore Namibia
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…
Critical Minerals From Sedimentary Basins
Exploration for critical minerals in sedimentary rocks and basins is rapidly growing in the US as the country seeks to decrease its dependency on China, which has been the dominant…
Vietnam: Drilling Campaign in the Song Hong Basin
Eni appraise gas and condensate at Ken Bau in their 2021 drilling campaign in Block 114 of the offshore Song Hong Basin, Vietnam. Map showing location of Eni’s Block 114…
Alaska: Lease Sale Struggles
After decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the 78,000 sqkm Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) went ahead in the last months of the…