Uruguay – from totally open to totally licensed in just a few years
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…
South America
Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin
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
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
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
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?
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…
Why it is not a slam dunk to ramp up gas production in Bolivia
Bolivia is still a gas-exporting country, with Brazil and Argentina being the two customers. But, with production on a long-term decline, and with Argentina now developing its own resource in…
Tidal influence in a deep marine turbiditic succession
The Suriname-Guyana basin is a genuine exploration hotspot these days. But it is not only a hotspot from an economical point of view, it is also an area where new…
Santos Basin, Brazil: Understanding the CO₂ exploration risk with ultra-deep seismic
Location of pre-salt blocks in the Santos Basin, the Nebula-C polygon and exploration well results. Santos Basin: New seismic data helps de-risk CO₂ contamination for pre-salt exploration CGG’s latest imaging technology…
Staatsolie announces bid round for eleven shallow water blocks
On the back on exploration success in deep water, Staatsolie is now putting the spotlight on the shallow part of the shelf.
The source rock for Venus
Duncan Macgregor and his colleague Colin Reeves are working on a project that will result in the creation of a series of paleotectonic and paleogeographic maps of the African continent.…
Is there an equivalent of the Orinoco heavy oil belt in Colombia?
Many geologists in Colombia, at some point during their career, had a pressing question in mind: “Is there an equivalent of the Orinoco Heavy Oil as present in Venezuela in…