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New plays in Southern Santos Basin revealed by large-scale, high quality 3D multi-client seismic

Milos Cvetkovic and Francisco Colina, TGS

July 1, 2024

Figure 2: Map showing extent of Santos 3D Sul project in relationship with other TGS 2D and 3D programs. Leveraging integrated workflows and fast track data for prospect evaluation during…

Is the Colombian Basin on its way to become the next big frontier?

Luis Carlos Carvajal-Arenas, Lucia Torrado, Juan Pablo Ramos, and Paul Mann

June 13, 2024

The demand for replacing O&G reserves along with the development of modern drilling and imaging technologies has pushed the boundaries of offshore exploration to new limits. By applying data-lead concepts,…

Much more than an oil country

Marel Sanchez, Juan Francisco Arminio, Katya Casey and Kevin Schofield, U3 Explore

June 4, 2024

With 202 Tcf, Venezuela accounts for 73 % of South America’s total natural gas resources, but gas production has been minimal in localized domestic markets due to limited existing infrastructure…

How to explain these rates?

Marcos Asensio

May 22, 2024

The Jurassic Vaca Muerta unit is a treasure trove with an estimated potential of 308 TCF of gas and 16.2 billion barrels of oil. While there are various types of…

Chasing Orange Basin success on the South American conjugate margin

Jonathan Leather - NVentures

May 15, 2024

The basins of interest span from the Pelotas of southern Brazil and Uruguay, through the Punta del Este and into North Argentina. Historically, this has been an underexplored region, with…

Natural Gas: The best ally for Colombia’s energy transition

Juan Pablo Ramos, University of Houston

May 6, 2024

Although natural gas production (1,050 MMcfd) in Colombia exceeds daily demand (960 MMcfd), the contrary could occur in the coming years with increasing demand and a slowdown in discoveries and…

Uruguay – from totally open to totally licensed in just a few years

Ian Cross - Moyes & Co

April 19, 2024

When the Kudu gas field was discovered offshore Namibia in the early 1970s, Chevron jumped to the other side of the Atlantic to take acreage in Uruguay in a similar…

Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin

Henk Kombrink

April 10, 2024

Yesterday, Petrobras announced the discovery of hydrocarbons in the ultra-deep waters of the Potiguar Basin in Brazil. The well, named Anhangá, found hydrocarbons in turbidite reservoir sands of Albian age.…

A new and unique multi-client core scanning and thin section digital catalog from pre-salt reservoirs offshore Brazil

James Shreeve and Lucas Rocha Frascaroli, Geotek and Félix Gonçalves, Solintec

April 8, 2024

The Pre-Salt reservoirs in Brazil are home to some of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves and one of the most exciting exploration frontiers. However, until now the exceptional…

Why the conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil may have even more to offer than the Orange Basin in Namibia

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher, and Pablo Rodriguez and Bruno Conti, ANCAP

March 18, 2024

Gondwanan break-up-basins and their multiple source rocks The advantage of Namibia’s conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil is likely to be the sand and clay deposited by the Rio…

Sandwiched between two major petroleum provinces, Suriname’s shallow offshore bid round acreage will be popular

Jonathan Leather - NVentures

February 27, 2024

The second shallow offshore bid round in Suriname was launched in November 2023 at the ICE Conference in Madrid. Management Presentations and Virtual Data Rooms have been available since 18th…

Have bottom currents defined the Golden Lane and determined updip prospectivity?

Nick Cameron - GeoInsight

February 19, 2024

Since the prolific Cretaceous oil kitchen of the Canje Formation offshore Guyana was demonstrated by Lawrence and Bray (1989), an anomaly related to the lack of exploration encouragement away from…

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