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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

North America

Western Florida: A new exploration frontier in the US Gulf of Mexico

James Pindell, ION Geophysical Corporation and Tectonic Analysis Ltd; Barbara Radovich and Brian W. Horn, ION Geophysical Corporation
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

Jane Whaley
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

William E. Galloway, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin
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

Øystein Lie and Per Helge Semb, Petroleum Geo-Services
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

Wayne Ranney
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

Halfdan Carstens
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

Jane Whaley
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…

The Canadian Beaufort Sea

Thomas Smith
Line 5600 is the most seaward ‘strike’ line in the ArcticSPAN Beaufort survey. The 547-km-long line shows the variable basin architecture of the Canadian Arctic passive margin (vertical exaggeration is…

On AAPG, Oil, and Geoscience

Rasoul Sorkhabi, Ph.D.
Although geologists working in the industry have access to tremendous subsurface data, relatively few of the data become public domain, says Dr. John Lorenz, President of the American Association of…

Reaching Out

Thomas Smith
Recognized as an expert in Gulf of Mexico deep-water seismic stratigraphy, Dr. Paul Weimer is now bringing geology to young students “in the way they learn–through animation.” The son of…

From Dinosaur Tracks to Oil

Thomas Smith
Just 25 km west of Denver, the Dakota Hogback at Dinosaur Ridge offers an opportunity to explore striking rock exposures and vistas, ancient dinosaur tracks, and oil seeps at the…

The First Wildcat – A True Adventure

Halfdan Carstens
The modern oil industry is this year celebrating its 150th anniversary. The actual birthday is August 27. In the late afternoon of that Saturday in 1859, the drillbit hit a…