Faroe Islands: Success Near
For years the Faroe Islands have had to look on while their larger neighbours in north-west Europe have extracted untold riches in hydrocarbons from offshore acreage. Has their turn finally…
North America
A Hot Spot in the Barents Sea
3D seismic in the Barents Sea reveal promising traps and convincing flat spots. As the twenty-first Norwegian licensing round approaches, the Barents Sea remains an area of high exploration interest…
Eagle Ford Shale
What started as a major shale gas play, the Eagle Ford Shale could be the sixth largest U.S. oilfield ever discovered and the largest in forty years. Like many of…
Andaman Basin
India’s Andaman Sea Basin is still considered frontier with respect to hydrocarbon exploration. Recent 2D seismic reprocessing has highlighted the potential of this area and has identified likely source, reservoir…
Western Canada’s First Oil Discovery
It took nearly a year for the cable-tool rig to reach a total depth of 427m. The Lineham No. 1 well had oil shows throughout the drilling process, and oil…
Western Florida: A new exploration frontier in the US Gulf of Mexico
A new perspective on rifting Long-offset seismic reflection data over the western Florida shelf and eastern Gulf of Mexico provide new insights into local geology, illuminate new exploration plays and…
Big Time for Small Companies
Although some major oil producers view the prospects offshore UK as too small for their attention, their exit leaves interesting opportunities for smaller companies. The recent 25th UK offshore Licensing…
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico Basin has proved to be a highly successful hydrocarbon province, and the vast untapped volume of both oil and gas ensures that the basin will continue…
New Data Reveals Sub-Salt Levantine Basin
New data using GeoStreamer® gives extraordinary imaging of sub-salt and deeper events in the Levantine Basin in the eastern Mediterranean. The recent giant sub-salt gas discoveries (7Tcf) offshore Israel in the Levantine…
The Smell of Crude Oil
Very few places on Earth combine stupendous scenery, recreation, and oil production. But in the central Colorado Plateau of southeast Utah, the San Juan River has carved two deep canyons…
Striving to Define an Oil Province
The future of the Norwegian Barents Sea, following almost 30 years of exploration, is still in the making. A new look at the petroleum systems in combination with high quality…
Deepwater Frontier Exploration
Offshore Indonesia, TGS has recently come up with innovative ways of combining data from a number of sources to examine the prospectivity of underexplored deepwater frontier basins in a cost-effective…