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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

North America

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…

Senegal Revisited.

Jane Whaley
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

Jane Whaley
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…

Gerry Sheehan, T5 Oil and Gas
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…

Beaufort West: new insight into a Frontier Basin

Ann E. Walker and Brian W. Horn, ION Geophysical
Location of foldout line BW1-2800 within the ION Geophysical BeaufortSPAN™ seismic program: Canada Basin, south western Arctic Ocean. The Alpine, Kuparuk River, and Prudhoe Bay fields are located within the…

Colorful Calgary A Modern Blend

Thomas Smith
Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, portrays the cattle and oil industry image of Dallas with the cosmopolitan feel of London. Beginning as a western Canadian frontier town where the Bow and…

The PESGB Celebrates Its 50th Birthday

Jane Whaley
Formed just as the first discoveries were being made in the North Sea, the Petroleum Society of Great Britain’s mission is to promote, for the public benefit, education in the…

A 25-year anniversary

Halfdan Carstens
The Valdez spill was the largest ever in US waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident. A massive clean-up effort was instigated immediately, with more than 11,000 Alaskan residents involved. While the…

Unconventional Oil and Gas Conference Breaks the Mould

Thomas Smith
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines unconventional as: ‘not conventional: not bound by or in accordance with convention: being out of the ordinary.’ Just as unconventional resources have rewritten the exploration and production play…