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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

North America

Exploration Update Vol. 11 No. 1

Ken White
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…

Yet Another Final Frontier? Honduras

Chris Matchette-Downes
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

Thomas Smith
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”

Scarlett Barclay
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?

Thomas Smith
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

Anne Hargreaves
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

Marcio Rocha Mello, Nilo Chagas Azambuja Filho, André Bender, HRT Oil & Gas, Silvana Maria Barbanti, Tikae Takaki, IPEX, Carlos Alberto Fontes, GeoHub, Webster Mohriak, Consultant, WMGC
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

Kim Gunn Maver and Paolo Esestime
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

Kai Floistad, Jerry Witney, Ron Borsato, James Carter, Richard Wright & Thomas Neugebauer
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

Elinor Alexander
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

Thomas Smith
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

Ashley Francis, Earthworks Reservoir
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…