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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…

Brazil’s Sub-Salt Discoveries Extend North

Thomas Smith
Recently announced deepwater, sub-salt discoveries in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin extend that trend into Brazil’s north-eastern continental margin, over 2,000 km north of the Santos Basin discoveries. The smaller onshore portion…

North West Europe – Optimism or Pessimism?

GEO ExPro
Consider North West Europe to be past its prime? Hannon Westwood’s Jim Hannon and Andrew Vinall take a look at the region’s future. Is North West Europe a mature province?This…

The Pelotas Basin oil province revealed

Mike Saunders, Spectrum, Scott Bowman, Petrodynamics, Laurie Geiger, Spectrum
Map showing the location of Spectrum 2D Seismic Data in the Pelotas Basin (7,500 km new acquisition and 6,000 km re-processing). The 200 km long line of section in the…

Deepwater fans across a transform margin, Offshore East Africa

A. Danforth, J. W. Granath, J. S. Gross, B W. Horn (ION Geophysical); KJ. Mcdonough (KJM Consulting, LLC); E. J. Sterne (Independent Consultant)
Map showing location of recent major discoveries in East Africa and the location of the main foldout line shown here. A developing province East Africa has undergone extension since the…