Arctic Availability
Is the rapidly melting Arctic ice unlocking opportunities for hydrocarbon exploration? Conflict or Cooperation? The Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, a development that some believe will be a…
North America
BGP – A Fast-Growing Company
BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation is one of the world’s leading geophysical service companies and undertakes more land-based geophysical surveys worldwide than any other company in the industry. We…
Exploration Update Vol. 11 No. 1
China: Extending Deep Objective Campaign The Tarim Basin, situated in north-west China, is considered one of the most petroliferous provinces in the country. Source: NASA/wikipediaPetroChina claimed an important gas discovery…
How Much Oil in the Middle East?
Part Two of a two part series by author Rasoul Sorkhabi, focussing on oil and gas in the Middle East. Part One – Why So Oil in the Middle East?…
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…
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…