Yet Another Final Frontier? Honduras
Following on from his article about the prospectivity of Jamaica in GEO ExPro, Vol. 7, No. 6 Chris Matchette-Downes moves westward to take a look at the eastern part of…
North America
Conference That’s a Cut Above
The Bob F. Perkins Research Conference provides geoscientists with a unique, yearly format to present cutting-edge research papers and share ideas on selected subjects. For the past 33 years, the…
South Sudan: “The Oil is Now Flowing”
South Sudan is to resume oil production – a positive move for the new country, but uncertainty remains. After a 15-month stalemate, South Sudan has announced it is to resume…
Ready to Explore the Offshore Arctic?
To unlock the vast, technically recoverable oil and gas resources that are attracting international oil companies to the Arctic will take Herculean effort. For example, Shell has spent billions of…
Scenic Geology of the Icefields Parkway
The drive from Lake Louise to Jasper on the Icefields Parkway, through the Banff and Jasper National Parks, Alberta, Canada, is a scenic tour that attracts people from all over…
New Deepwater Frontiers an Ocean Apart
Large oil finds in the African Equatorial Margin have led to recent oil discoveries along the South American Equatorial Margin. Similar geologic and geochemical characteristics suggest analogous petroleum systems with…
Iceland Exploration Revived
Recent license awards suggest that active exploration may soon resume in Iceland’s freezing waters Iceland is currently not producing oil or gas. However, the very first oil and gas offshore…
Beneath the Labrador Sea
A new seismic dataset helps clarify the deepwater hydrocarbon potential offshore Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada First oil was produced on the Grand Banks in 1997 from the Hibernia Field…
South Australia’s Unconventional Resource
A newly published guide outlines the opportunities and risks involved in exploiting unconventional reserves in South Australia. Once regarded as something that would happen in the future, recent exploration results…
Unleashing the True Potential of the Mad Dog Oil Field
Technological imaging advances and a phased development in the 15 years since discovery have begun to unlock the full potential of the Mad Dog Field, increasing its known oil-in-place nearly…
Geophysics: A Simple Guide to Seismic Inversion
Seismic inversion is a complex topic with many different methods. This can make it confusing for the non-specialist to understand the various flavors of seismic inversion and choose the most…
Petroleum: A New Economic Boost for Suriname
Good proven source rocks and reservoirs, and analogs with the conjugate margin across the Atlantic – could the waters offshore Suriname be harboring great riches? The Republic of Suriname, with…