Tractors and Technology
“Remember, oil is a product of nature”, says César Patiño when we meet on Teams in April. In his role as a delegate for the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration…
South America
Argentina’s first deep water well
2022 saw the award of around 60 blocks in Brazil, most as a result of the ANP’s 3rd Open Acreage Concession Bid Round. However, licensing activity in South America has…
Guyana-Suriname Basin: predicting facies in undrilled successions using new sea-level curve
The Guyana Basin formed during the Jurassic opening of the North Atlantic. Plate reconstructions suggest rifting and early seafloor spreading began with NNW/SSE extension (c. 190–160 Ma). Since the Liza…
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…
The striking similarities between Namibia and Brazil’s conjugate margins
Regional seismic lines indicate that the Pelotas Basin in Brazil contains the same play ingredients as the Orange Basin in Namibia where the Venus discovery was recently made.
Krabdagu-1: Extending the Play Eastwards in Suriname
TotalEnergies (with 50% partner APA Corp) announced in late February 2022 that their Block 58 well, Krabdagu-1, is a discovery, encountering ~90m net oil and gas pay. Krabdagu-1: Extending the…
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,…
Unifying offshore Brazil: from the Abimael propagator to the Abrolhos Islands
Figure 1A: Regional map with red line cross-section location. 3D processing integrates regional seismic, offshore Brazil The new Picanha 3D dataset provides the ideal foundation for an exploration and production…
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…