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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

North America

South America – Licensing Slows

GEO ExPro
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

M. Quentin Morton
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

Brought to you in association with NVentures
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

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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

Lane Franks, Daire Sloan, Mark Sloan and Chris J. Matchette-Downes
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

GEO ExPro
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

Ashton Embry, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary
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…

Contributing to a Greater Good

GEO ExPro
Dr. Lee T. Billingsley is presently President-Elect, and from July 1 he will be President of AAPG for one year. We have talked with Dr. Billingsley about his views on…

Storming the Ivory Tower

Raymond Levey, Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah
The oil shock of 1973 transformed the global energy picture. As lines of automobiles snaked down the street awaiting their turn at the pumps,the realization dawned that plentiful, cheap energy…

Cretaceous Park

Halfdan Carstens
Glacial meltwater and subaerial erosion after the ice age has sculptured a badlands landscape within Upper Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks. Abundant dinosaur fossil bones and skeletons have been exposed making…