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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

South America

Paraguay Draws Industry Attention

Ken White
It is fashionable to identify deepwater regions, unconventional plays and the Arctic as the ‘hot spots’ in the current global exploration scene. In recent years, violence, tension with governments and power struggles…

Uruguay. Small Country, Big Opportunities.

Ferro Santiago, Pablo Gristo, Bruno Conti, Cecilia Romeu and Héctor de Santa Ana, ANCAP
Uruguay welcomes you with new opportunities offshore. Uruguay is located in South America between Brazil and Argentina and on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the second-smallest nation…

Southern Chile’s Ring of Fire

Olivier Galland, University of Oslo, and Caroline Sassier
Southern Chile is the setting for the dramatic snow-covered volcanoes of the Pacific Ring of Fire. This stunning volcanic range is the surface expression of the subduction of the Pacific…

3D Seismic and SHarp Broadband 2D – UtStord and South Viking Graben

Nicolas Hand and David Jackson, Dolphin Geophysical Multi-Client New Ventures
3D seismic and SHarp Broadband 2D from the UtStord and South Viking Graben areas of the UK-Norwegian North Sea show improved imaging throughout the entire geological section. In 2013 Dolphin…

Foz do Amazonas Basin: latest exploration enhances prospectivity

Lauren Penn, Paolo Esestime and Karyna Rodriguez, Spectrum
Exciting opportunities and new play concepts The underexplored Foz do Amazonas Basin has huge potential, revealed through integrating seismic and CSEM data. The Foz do Amazonas Basin, the most northerly of…

Sergipe Basin, Brazil: DHIs from calibrated AVO stacks

Mike Saunders and Dan Negri (Spectrum); Christopher Ross (Cross Quantitative Interpretation); Scott Bowman (Petrodynamics)
Map showing the Sergipe Basin, the location of the Barra discovery well and seismic lines discussed in this article. (Source: Spectrum). AVO signatures help identify hydrocarbons In the relatively mature…

Vast Hydrocarbon Potential: Mexico’s Offshore Ronda Uno

Ian Davison, Eoin O’Beirne, Theodore Faull and Ian Steel, Earthmoves Ltd.
An insight into some highlights of the offshore hydrocarbon potential available in almost virgin exploration territory. The Mexican Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) announced its first ever licensing round (Ronda Uno) in…

Gas Hydrates – Part V: The Resource Potential

Lasse Amundsen, Thomas Reichel (Statoil) and Martin Landrø (NTNU Trondheim).
The gas hydrate resource is a function of geology, technology, policy, and market conditions. As we have seen, the commercial resource and recovery potential of gas hydrate strongly depends on…

Ronda Uno

Ian Davison and Theodore Faull, Earthmoves Ltd.
Mexico’s first exploration licensing round is a landmark event in the history of oil exploration in Latin America Mexico’s oil industry is opening up to the private sector after a 76-year…

The Value of Monitoring Fractures

Charles Sicking, Global Geophysical
Real time frac monitoring shows the progression of fractures opened during the fracking process, knowledge which can impact drilling decisions. Unconventional reservoirs are a growing part of the oil and…

Maturing Nicely

Jane Whaley
Following the discovery of gas onshore the Netherlands in 1959 and offshore the UK in 1963, and then oil in the North Sea a few years later, the hydrocarbon industry…

Geology is Cool!

Thina Margarethe Saltvelt
What difference will the death of President Chavez make to the oil industry? Oil prices did not react sharply to the news that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez passed away in…