One Year On
The first anniversary of the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been marked in a number of ways. Foremost it has been an opportunity to remember the eleven…
North America
A Growing Atlantic Play
Recent discoveries in West Africa have highlighted the importance of the Upper Cretaceous throughout the Atlantic Margin. The Barents Sea is the Northern extension of this growing play. Sandstones of…
E³ = ST
Harnessing Dr. Scott Tinker’s enthusiasm and boundless vivacity may not instantly solve the global energy equation; however he is delivering a clear directive on energy that we all can embrace.…
Gateway to the 49th State
Having evolved from a tent city to Alaska’s commercial and tourist hub within less than 100 years, Anchorage offers both economic opportunity and endless adventure. I took my first oil…
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…
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…