Ultra-Deepwater Santos: A Global Exploration Hotspot
New pre-salt hydrocarbon opportunities have been identified in the ultra-deepwater areas of the Santos Basin. In the past decade, a large number of major discoveries have been made in pre-salt…
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Buscador: The ‘Searcher-Engine for Oil’ in Mexico’s hottest hotspot
Location of Searcher’s seismic datasets offshore Mexico with geological basins outlined and the location of major recent Talos and ENI discoveries. Offshore Mexico: extraordinary hydrocarbon play systems identified Improvements in…
Geochemistry and Microbiology in Seep Prospecting
Studies offshore Nova Scotia have shown that combining geochemistry and microbial genomics can effectively de-risk off shore deepwater oil and gas exploration. Hydrocarbon seep detection is often the first step…
Central Utah Thrust Belt: A Lost Cause?
The 2004 Covenant oil field discovery promised to open up a very favorable, large onshore oil province. Thirty additional wells have been drilled in the play since, but only one…
Orphan Basin, Canada: from regional prospect screening to reliable reservoir attributes estimation
Figure 2: (a) Location of the Long Range, Tablelands and North Tablelands 3D surveys; (b) Locator map looking north across the surveys. The amplitude extraction on the seafloor demonstratesthe modern…
Mexico’s Energy Reform
Five years on, what has Mexico’s energy reform delivered for the country’s oil and gas exploration and production ambitions? The Mexican Constitutional Energy Reform took place in 2014 in response…
Shearwater Enters Deepwater OBS Market
Provider of marine geophysical services Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a major ocean bottom seismic (OBS) deepwater remotely operated survey (ROV) project by TGS and partner in the US Gulf…
A Dreary Investment Outlook for Oil and Gas in Gulf of Mexico?
Gulf of Mexico final investment decisions are likely to be put on hold, as oil and gas exploration and production companies join the budget-cutting parade. Exploration and production companies in…
New Reservoir Modelling Workflow
An innovative new modelling workflow for reservoir characterisation has been developed that is capable of producing an advanced 3D geomodel of any subsurface zone of interest and can identify potential…
Mixed Oil Exploration Results in the Rhine Graben
Neptune with partner Palatina GeoCon are testing oil at Schwegenheim-1 in the German Rhine Graben. Location of the Schwegenheim-1 well in the German Rhine Graben. Neptune with partner Palatina GeoCon…
Gas Discovery Offshore Vietnam
Eni, with partner Essar E&P, has appraised a large gas find with the Ken Bau-2X well in Block 114 of the Song Hong Basin, offshore Vietnam. Location of the Ken…
A Bleak Year for Oil and Gas Exploration in Africa
Despite optimistic expectations at the start of the year, with several high-impact wells planned, 2020 is the bleakest year in a decade for African oil and gas exploration. Expectations were…