North America

Keeping an eye on the Cuban part of the GOM

The island of Cuba has a rich history of oil and gas exploration, dating back as far as the 1860s when commercial discoveries of heavy oil were found. The first…

Doing it differently

Approved in 2002, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada, US, looked to become the country’s final destination for high-level radioactive waste for quite a few years. Until 2011,…

Leslie Kimberlite core

The history of diamond exploration in the Northwest Territories began in 1981 with Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson sampling the Mountain Diatreme in the Mackenzie Mountains. While this prospect did…

How to attract the majors?

When it comes to finding new oil and gas fields, there’s not much that can beat the excitement of frontier exploration. Drilling wells in areas where no one has gone…