Southern Chile’s Ring of Fire
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…
South America
3D Seismic and SHarp Broadband 2D – UtStord and South Viking Graben
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
New deepwater frontiers an ocean apart
The South Atlantic Equatorial Margin represents new, deepwater exploration frontiers. The 2007 Tullow Oil discovery of the Jubilee Field off the West African margin, located 60 km offshore Ghana in…
Challenges ahead for Venezuela
Oil prices did not react sharply to the news that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez passed away in March after 14 years in office. Now an election will be held within…
Brazil’s Sub-Salt Discoveries Extend North
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…