Russia: Major Reserves Boost
Appraisal drilling by Gazprom at its Kirinskoye Yuzhnoye field in the Okhotsk Sea off Sakhalin Island has resulted not only in the addition of gas reserves, but also in the discovery of a big oil…
North America
The Great Black Giant
On a dream – and a bit too close to her garden – the old wooden derrick was skidded to its third location on Mrs. Daisy Bradford’s 970 acre, East…
South Falkland Basin: Darwinian Evolution
The South Falkland Basin has remained below the industry radar. Pioneering exploration efforts are slowly revealing the potential of this new frontier. Filter Collections EXPLORATION SOUTH AMERICA South Falkland Basin:…
Big D
Dazzling Dallas rose up from the north Texas plains as a technical and financial center for the oil industry following the 1930 discovery of the supergiant East Texas oil field.…
Endgame for the North Sea?
Decommissioning brings uncertainty and there are many concerns but also possible opportunities ahead. Chess theory allows for an opening, a middlegame and an endgame. The boundaries are somewhat blurred but…
South East Asia: Deepwater Activity in an Environment of Oversupply
As explorers in Asia Pacific undertake the search for high-cost deepwater-targets, global production levels remain high and oil prices slump. This article investigates the impact on these deepwater projects. High…
Oil Exploration in the Canadian Beaufort
A frontier environment with conventional resources, where exploration risk is low, execution risk is manageable and the plays are world-class. The Arctic represents both a challenge and an opportunity for…
Political Geology in the Arctic
Geology has been used to argue for the rearrangement of maritime borders of states, often to the prejudice of geology as a science. This is especially true in the Arctic,…
Midland, Texas: Gateway to the Permian Basin
If there is any city that deserves the title of ‘Oil City’, it would have to be Midland, sitting as it does atop one of the most prolific oil-producing areas of the US. Starting…
Senegal Revisited.
In 2010 we reported that after over 50 years of exploration, Senegal had only delivered a number of small fields and produced 11 Bcf of gas, but was still waiting…
Like Everywhere You’ve Never Been
One of the last intact wildernesses left on earth, Papua New Guinea is experiencing an unprecedented resurgence of interest from the hydrocarbon industry. Is it possible to encourage the advances…
That’s Not a Very Prospective Basin…
Time was when industry interest in the MSGBC Basin was lukewarm to say the least: not any more. The recent world-class oil discoveries by Cairn-FAR-Conoco-Phillips offshore Senegal and by Kosmos…