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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

North America

Driven to success on the seismic superhighway

Phillip Hargreaves, Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Ashleigh Hewitt (Spectrum)
3D seismic risk reduction for license round Phillip Hargreaves On Australia’s North West Shelf, acreage in shallow water multi-TCF neighborhoods is highly prized and competitively sought. To assess the value…

Palaeozoic Plays of the Great Basin

Rasoul Sorkhabi, Ph.D.
The Palaeozoic tectonic history of the Great Basin of Nevada in south-western USA parallels that of the US east coast, where the Marcellus Shale has been a target of intense…

Congo: Significant Westward Extension

GEO ExPro & IHS
Eni’s Nene Marine 3 exploration well in the offshore Marine XII Block encountered a significant wet gas and light oil accumulation in the pre-salt clastic sequence, thereby outlining a significant extension to…

Russia: Major Reserves Boost

GEO ExPro & IHS
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…

The Great Black Giant

Thomas Smith
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

Bruce Farrer, Borders & Southern Petroleum; Chris Rudling, RPS
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

Thomas Smith
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?

Will Thornton
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

Dylan Mair and Evonne Tan, IHS Energy
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

Paul Barrett, Franklin Petroleum
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

Eugene Petrov, Geology Without Limits
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

Thomas Smith
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…