Goodbye to the Gas Guzzler!
The price of petrol at the pump in the US is – in fact, in some places has already exceeded – the psychologically important $4/gallon (EIA). Petrol prices have risen…
North America
Florida – the next US frontier
Map of the Gulf of Mexico showing the lines used to make the composite seismic lines shown on this page in purple. Offshore Florida A west-east seismic line on the…
Africa: Continent of Discoveries
Africa conference will examine exciting new plays and developments. Africa continues to deliver exciting new oil and gas discoveries in emerging plays. There is great excitement offshore East Africa, from…
Afghanistan Taking Off?
CNPC becomes first international player to secure Afghanistan acreage. Ravaged by years of war, geo graphic ally disadvantaged, land locked and mountainous and carrying genuine fears of political instability; hardly…
Shell to Drill Arctic This Summer
In the first exploratory drilling program in US Arctic waters in two decades, Shell is to start drilling prospects in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off northern Alaska this August.…
Liberia: Significant Oil Discovery
Liberia’s race to join its West African neighbours Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire and especially Ghana has moved an important step forward. Source: African Petroleum In late February African Petroleum, which…
What is Tight Gas?
Since its production is tied to technological developments, well cost, and fraccing gas prices, tight gas is an economic issue A practical definition of a tight gas field at present…
Kenya Hits the Jackpot
After discoveries in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, Kenya hopes to join the club. For too long a backwater in hydrocarbon terms, dependent on imported oil and gas, East Africa is…
Extended North West African Margin Survey
Since May last year, Dolphin Geophysical has been acquiring long-offset, high specification, regional 2D data along the North West African Atlantic Margin (NWAAM). Initially covering Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and the…
Force Majeure in Syria
The much-vaunted Arab Spring, which has brought new life to the Libyan oil industry, where production is reportedly already nearly back to pre-revolution volumes, is having a less satisfactory impression…
Collaboration is the Future
A new atlas of the North East Atlantic region is the outcome of collaboration between national survey organizations. In the present straitened times, finances are tight for all research organizations,…
Cyprus: Historic Gas Discovery
The inhabitants of the island of Cyprus had a very exciting late Christmas present, when Noble Energy announced that they had made a significant gas discovery offshore on December 28…