South America

Offshore Brazil: Reducing risk with regional 3D reprocessing

Coloured Pre-Salt Isopach Map relating mature Lagoa Feia source rock presence with Base of Salt structure contours displaying the fetch and hydrocarbon migration pathways to the pre-salt lead. Interpreted seismic…

Revealing new exploration potential onshore Colombia

Location of area of interest and data available for Searcher’s reprocessing project onshore Colombia. Shale or Salt – diapiric dance onshore Colombia Despite having positive well results in the 1920’s…

New life for the extended Orange Basin

The Orange Basin – An underexplored oil giant? The Orange Basin offshore Namibia and South Africa The Orange Basin is part of the volcanic-rifted passive margin south of the Walvis…

Energy opportunity: Offshore Jamaica

Figure 1: Generalised map showing the Walton Morant Licence area, the identified prospectivity, well locations and seismic coverage. Geoseismic cross-section A–A’ is shown in Figure 7. Figure 2: A prominent…

South America – Riches and Strife

In this short editorial, GEO ExPro Editor in Chief Iain Brown talks briefly on the energy situation in South America and introduces the latest edition of the magazine (Vol. 19,…

Exploring the Heartland of the Incan Empire

From the iconic ruins of Machu Picchu to the ancient capital of Cuzco, the Inca’s intimate relationship with some of South America’s most spectacular geology is brilliantly displayed in modern-day…

Brazil: Losing Its Way

Brazil has been a leader in the energy transition – but is now being left behind. In many ways, Brazil is well ahead in the energy transition game. Its energy…

Northern North Sea: a dual-azimuth solution

Figure 1: Overview map.The Northern North Sea is very active for oil and gas exploration with several commercial discoveries made over recent years. CGG’s Northern Viking Graben (NVG) multi-client survey…

From agua caliente (‘hot water’) to aceite caliente! (‘hot oil!’)

Please note: due to online file size limits we have had to scale down the resolution of this foldout. You can find the higher resolution version on pp42-46 of GEO ExPro…