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…
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
Geological setting The Canadian Rocky Mountains rise majestically from the interior plains of Alberta. Let’s ponder the general geological setting of Canada. In a nutshell, where the central craton of…
Beneath the Labrador Sea
First oil was produced on the Grand Banks in 1997 from the Hibernia Field and since then the world-class oil-producing fields Terra Nova, White Rose and North Amethyst have come…
Unleashing the true potential of the Mad Dog oil field
Mapping on a 1996 vintage 3D seismic survey over the southern Green Canyon area of the Central Gulf of Mexico revealed a broad, simple, anticlinal high. Reflectivity was very poor…
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…
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…