North America

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…

A UK Shale Gale Coming?

A new report estimates that the UK Bowland Shale resources could amount to over a quadrillion cubic feet of gas in place. Exploitation of onshore shale gas resources in North…

Africa Spearheads New Acreage Drive

Guinea Guinea is working to put in place a new oil code by the middle of 2013 and will then invite companies to explore 21 offshore blocks, according to Guillaume…

Geochemical surface expression of oil and gas in arctic terrains

Located in Canada’s farthest northern region, the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk lies on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula at the tip of the Northwest Territories on the coast of the Beaufort Sea. Anglicised…

Peru: Repsol Gas Strike

Repsol has made an important gas discovery with its Sagari-1 wildcat in its sub-Andean Block 57 in Peru, establishing gas pay in both the Nia Superior and Nia Inferior formations.…

Emma Summers: Oil Queen of California

“A woman with a genius for affairs – it may sound paradoxical, but the fact exists. If Mrs. Emma A. Summers were less than a genius she could not, as…

Central American Opportunity

According to Energy and Mining Minister Erick Archila, Guatemala will be opening seven blocks covering nearly 8,000 km2 in the onshore Petén Basin to international bidders and has already made several…

Conference on Prolific Zagros Area

London to host conference on hydrocarbon exploration in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran The Zagros Mountains stretch for 1,500 km from south-east Iran through Iraq and into…

Coal Takes Charge

Fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix. Their market share is 87%; fossil fuels therefore still dominate energy consumption. Renewable energy continues to gain markets, but still only accounts,…