North America

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…

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…

Buried Treasure in Jamaica

The beautiful Caribbean Island of Jamaica was home to pirates and their loot in the past, but is there treasure of a different sort in its sparkling waters? Data collated…

Bay of Bengal

Flanked by the young, growing and energy hungry populations of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Bay of Bengal finds itself an increasingly hot property in the search to discover new…

A Long and Winding Road

The North Slope of Alaska is a cornerstone of US oil production with several giant fields, notably Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk and Endicott, plus extensive heavy oil at Ugnu and West…

Hot Spot: Greenland

A recent well drilled by the Scottish company Cairn Energy has, for the first time, proven oil offshore West Greenland. “The presence of both oil and gas confirms an active,…

The North Falkland Basin

What have we learned from this summer’s exploration drilling activity around the Falkland Isles? This year six wells have been completed or are drilling around the Falkland Islands, with one…