North America

A sleeping giant

As the United States pours funding into the development of clean, reliable energy, the competition among candidates – including geothermal, nuclear and batteries – seems like a horse race as…

OBN Seismic Unlocks New Play Potential in the Gulf of Suez

Rejuvenating exploration in the Gulf of Suez through the application of modern wide azimuth OBN seismic technology. The Gulf of Suez is a prolific rifted hydrocarbon province that has been…

South America – Licensing Slows

South America and the Caribbean is currently seeing less licensing activity, at least partially because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on frontier exploration, which has prompted international oil…

Mexico: Onshore to Offshore

From the 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to modern times, Mexico has been bound to oil. Although no longer in the top ten of the world’s leading producers, shale gas may change…

Global Wildcatting – Going with the Flow

The extended impact of uncertain oil prices, combined with the Covid-19 pandemic and dwindling investor sentiment for hydrocarbons, have resulted in further delays, and in some cases cancellations, of already…

Graff-1: On the Cusp of Hydrocarbon Success in Namibia

Shell has made a ‘significant oil and gas discovery’ at the Graff-1 well offshore Namibia. Shell has made a ‘significant oil and gas discovery’ at the Graff-1 well offshore Namibia. It is unclear…

An oil prone frontier basin

A multitude of geological data suggests that the petroleum system is in place. Rich, voluminous source rocks, likely migration paths, good reservoir rocks and huge traps all make the Seychelles…

Market Update

2008: Planet Earth, Sound of Geology; International Workshop in Bergen, 26.-28. April 2006, Software for the Asset Team, Will there be a Saudi oil shock to shake the World economy?,…

Episodic Global Tectonics: Sequence Stratigraphy Meets Plate Tectonics

Based on recent advances in plate tectonics, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, I suggest that the Earth is affected by relatively short-lived episodes of increased tectonic activity separated by longer intervals…