The East African Rift System – A View from Space
Remote sensing data has given a unique perspective on the East African Rift System, allowing both large regional structures and more subtle features to be identified and placed in context…
North America
Exploring the Icelandic Frontiers
Iceland is renowned for its hot springs, geysers and active volcanoes that erupt from time to time, not world-class oil and gas production – but could basins close to this…
Georgia: Oil in the Sub-Thrust Zone
A beautiful country, flanked by mountain ranges and famous for fine wine – but Georgia’s primary contribution to the hydrocarbon industry is as a corridor for oil and gas travelling…
South Atlantic Palaeogeography: Reconstructing Palaeolandscapes for New Ventures
Use of palaeolandscapes is essential for understanding the South Atlantic, where the interplay of plate tectonics and landscape evolution has a direct influence on the development of hydrocarbons. Palaeogeography has…
Indonesia: The Eastern Frontier
New light has been shed on the petroleum potential of the Northern Arafura Shelf area in Eastern Indonesia. The Northern Arafura shelf area is frontier in nature but is on…
Into the ‘White Zone’: Exploration in the North-West Atlantic Margin
Faroe Petroleum’s focussed exploration strategy, concentrated chiefly on the challenging waters of Norway and the Atlantic Margin, is paying off. The North-West Atlantic Margin is the area stretching from the…
New insights into the Levantine Basin
Currently no exploration wells exist in offshore Cyprus and Lebanon, although huge gas discoveries have been made in the vicinity, but continuous seismic coverage from Cyprus to Lebanon provides an…
The Standard Oil Story III: The Rise, Fall and Rise of The Standard Oil Company
In the past two issues of GEO ExPro (No. 2 and 3, Vol. 8), we looked at the profiles of John D. Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell; in this final part of the…
Standard Oil I – Ida Tarbell: Pioneering Oil Industry Journalist
Exactly a hundred years ago Standard Oil, which controlled the oil industry in the US, was forced to split into several companies, due largely to the pioneering work done by…
Start of Something Big
An oil discovery in the Moose Range wilderness on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula would bring a momentous change to the territory and have oil exploration implications far to the north. The…
Pikes Peak or Bust
With the superb backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, the ‘mile high’ city of Denver has one of the most attractive locations of any oil town. Although Denver is now well…
The NE Greenland Continental Margin
Seismic line 3 showing the continuation of a thick Mesozoic basin beneath lava flows of the Northeast Greenland Volcanic Province. The southern extent of the Danmarkshavn Basin quite clearly underlies the northern…