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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

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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…

Offshore Uruguay

Lauren Penn, Gary Scaife and Richard Spoors, Spectrum
  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…

Colombia Rediscovered

Thomas Smith
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

Thomas Smith
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

Steve Henry, Naresh Kumar, Al Danforth, Peter Nuttall AND Sujata Venkatraman, ION Geophysical
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

Ian Davison, GEO International Ltd.; Menno G. Dinkelman and Wouter Kool, ION’s G
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

Thomas Smith
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…

Reality Hits Brazil’s Pre-Salt Play

Thomas Smith
Recent news of at least three dry wells and suspension of the Tupi extended well test illustrate some of the challenges facing the pre-salt play that Brazil’s government has touted…

I-Guazú: Great Water – Great Volcanism

Thomas Smith
Iguaçu Falls is one of the most spectacular natural sceneries in the world, caused by a wide-spread volcanic event in conjunction with continental rifting in the Early Cretaceous. This rifting…