The Santos Basin, Brazil: Unlocking the pre-salt potential
The interpreted seismic line extends across the fast-track results from the Phase VI-B survey in the Santos Basin. The survey covers an area of 14,000 km2 and has been acquired using…
South America
The Pelotas Basin oil province revealed
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…
Recorded broadband 3D: Improving reservoir understanding and characterization with recorded broadband seismic
To see the full seismic lines please download our PDF for the print issue available through this link: GEO ExPro Vol. 10 No. 2 Extracting more than mere frequencies Recorded broadband…
Deepwater fans across a transform margin, Offshore East Africa
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…
Offshore Uruguay
Uruguay has gained significant interest due to its unique positioning on the conjugate margin with West Africa, in particular offshore Namibia where significant hydrocarbon discoveries have occurred. Also, key…
Santos Basin: Complex salt structures and pre-salt potential revealed by new CGGVeritas 3D data
New Geological Insights Into the Santos Basin New PSDM 3D seismic reflection data over the highly prolific Santos Basin provides comprehensive insight into, and enables a better understanding of, the…
Exploration potential of deep water offshore Trinidad, Tobago and Barbados
Thrusted Cretaceous to Oligocene stratigraphy below a Tertiary unconformity can be observed proximal west of the islands of Trinidad, Tobago, on the island of Barbados and in the Tobago Basin.…
Colombia Rediscovered
Colombia’s regulatory reforms are paying dividends, with dozens of new oil and gas discoveries over the past two years – yet ‘rediscovered’ older fields are carrying the country to new…
The Other North Atlantic
Canada’s offshore oil and gas industry was born off the coasts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and is seeing promising signs of a rebirth. Exploration drilling for oil and gas…
Ghana/Sierra Leone lookalike plays in Northern Brazil
Brazil Equatorial Margin Shows Promise As the Equatorial Atlantic opened, major oceanic fracture zones, ranging from the Chain Fracture Zone (FZ) in the south to the Monrovia FZ in the…
Two Frontier Basins Come to Light
Off the western Irish coast, new regional 2D seismic data is providing key information on the petroleum potential of a large and underexplored area. The roughly south-east to north-west trending…
Brazil’s Newest Independent
A new spin-off from HRT Petroleum, South America’s largest service company, HRT Oil & Gas, is staking their fortunes deep in Brazil’s Amazon Jungle. “With Brazil’s prolific offshore fields and…