North America

AAPG ACE 2018

GEO ExPro’s Conference Round-Ups: AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. AAPG ACE Salt Lake City Conference Round Up Another Successful Annual Convention Beautiful backdrop…

Exploration Update: Malaysia

Sapura Energy confirm success for exploration in the Sarawak Block of Malaysia’s Greater Sarawak Basin. Exploration Success in the Sarawak Block, Greater Sarawak Basin In April 2018 Sapura Energy confirmed…

Geology of The Rocky Mountains

Aspen, Colorado – home to the Rocky Mountains: draws jet-setters from around the globe and presents geologists with a tantalizing geological puzzle to deduce when and why these beautiful mountains…

Exploration of The US Atlantic Margin

Covering an area roughly the size of California and Texas combined, the US Atlantic margin is underexplored, but prospective basins along the margin may once again be open to exploration.…

Regional Update: US Gulf of Mexico

After a lack of success in oil & gas exploration worldwide, Chevron and Shell bring new hope for US Gulf of Mexico oil production following two significant discoveries in the…

Recent Hydrocarbon Discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico

Exploration update on the United States as Chevron and Shell hit two major discoveries. Discovery for Chevron in the Mississippi Canyon & Shell in Alaminos Canyon Location of Chevron’s Ballymore…

A Century of Geoscience Publishing

The important adaptation of digital publishing for oil and gas. In 2017 the American Association of Petroleum Geologists celebrated 100 years as a respected independent publisher of geoscience articles, all…

Newark East Barnett – Shale’s Spindletop

The Barnett Shale gas discovery, like ‘Spindletop’ nearly 100 years prior, changed an industry by unlocking huge new volumes of oil and gas, this time from shales. A unique formation,…

URTeC 2018: Getting Down to Business

GEO ExPro Oil & Gas Conference Round-Ups: Unconventional Resource Technology Conference 2018, Houston, USA. Fuelled by SPE | AAPG | SEG. URTeC 2018: Unconventional Play Development The 6th Unconventional Resources…

Benin – The Low Cost, High Impact Frontier

The overlooked potential of Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary plays within the onshore and shelfal Dahomey Embayment. The Gulf of Guinea is characterised by a number of Mesozoic sedimentary wedges,…

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Great Sand Dunes

While the story behind the Great Sand Dunes is still being unraveled, visitors to this part of Colorado will be enveloped by a geologic wonder and a truly spectacular sight…

Licensing Update – Brazil

14th Exploration Round and 3rd Production Sharing (Pre-Salt) Round in 2017 The Brazilian Government has recently confirmed the blocks to be offered in the 14th Exploration Round and proposed areas…