Latin America Leads the Way with FSPO Developments
South America’s upcoming floater projects could help sustain fabrication yards that are struggling to keep their doors open, with FPSO developments driven by Brazil and Guyana. While the rest of…
North America
Hydrocarbon exploration in New Zealand: A beginning or the end?
In April, OMV, with partners OMV Sapura and Mitsui, announced the success of the Toutouwai-1 well in the Taranaki Basin Block 60093 offshore New Zealand’s North Island. However, further exploration…
Calculating Fluid Saturation in Unconventional Reservoirs
A new way to accurately model and calculate true moveable fluid phase saturation in unconventional, organic-rich shale reservoirs. New and greatly improved technologies in drilling, hydraulic fracturing and imaging have…
Locating Sweet Spots: Shale Petroleum Systems
Petroleum system analysis has been a major tool in petroleum geoscience and exploration – but can it help locate shale ‘sweet spots’ and thus increase production, reduce risk and minimize…
Rakhine Basin Gas Discovery, Offshore Myanmar
Korean company Posco International has discovered a new gas field in Myanmar with exploration well Mahar-1, located in offshore Block A3 in the Rakhine Basin. Location of the Posco…
Egypt: A New Regional LNG Hub?
Egypt became a net importer of LNG in 2015. However, the country announced its intention to cease imports and begin exporting LNG through its main LNG terminal at Damietta in…
Underexplored Shallow Offshore Suriname
Suriname is offering eight new offshore blocks in the underexplored Shallow Offshore (SHO) acreage, which are in close proximity to a string of deepwater hydrocarbon discoveries and billion barrel in-place…
Preventing Pitfalls in Petrofacies Prediction
Using reservoir description and regional geology to recognize problematic non-reservoir facies in Equatorial and South Atlantic Margin Basins. Despite the advances in seismic and log lithology interpretation techniques in recent…
Liberia: Undrilled Harper Basin
Liberia progresses with 2020 licensing round, offering nine offshore blocks for oil and gas exploration in the underexplored, yet prospective, Harper Basin. Unlike many countries, Liberia has decided to continue…
New Multi-Client Seismic Surveys Planned in the Permian Basin
CGG and Fairfield Geotechnologies will acquire a series of large-scale, high-density, multi-client seismic surveys in one of the most prolific hydrocarbon regions in North America – the Central Basin Platform…
Suriname: Extending Cretaceous Fairway?
Petronas, with new farminee ExxonMobil, have now spud Sloanea-1 on Suriname Block 52, along trend and 60 km south-east of Kwaskwasi in Block 58. Map showing the location of the…
The First Offshore Lebanon Well
Despite earlier rumours of a gas find, Lebanon’s first offshore well Byblos-1 did not encounter the predicted Tamar sandstone reservoir formation. Location of the failed Byblos-1 well offshore Lebanon. Byblos-1,…