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…
North America
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…
The Canadian Beaufort Sea
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
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
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
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
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…
Illuminating Basin-Scale Architecture
The Canadian portion of the Beaufort Sea has been the site of intense interest and bidding in recent licensing rounds. Regional reconnaissance 2D seismic programs designed to image down to…
Concerned About the Environment
Syncrude, the Canadian energy giant that is producing some 350,000bopd from the oil sands in Alberta, has been charged with the deaths of nearly 500 ducks in a massive, toxic…