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…
South America
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…
Peru – Not just a tourist destination
After many years of civil unrest and terrorist activity Peru has now experienced relative economic and political stability for more than 15 years. A well-established hydrocarbon industry offering attractive terms…
Can sparse OBN equal savings and data quality?
Geology The study area is in ultradeep waters (2 km) of the Santos Basin and the geology is comprised of a 2–4 kilometer-thick sequence of mostly clastic sedimentary rocks overlaying…
Offshore Colombia: discovering new value in legacy data using modern workflows
Figure 2a: Basemap showing ION’s Colombia Caribe Reprocessing project, highlighting the 18 vintage surveys in offshore Colombia, PanamaSPAN and AntillesSPAN of the western Caribbean. Figure 1: Regional tectonic framework…
Hydrocarbon Discovery Offshore Suriname
In January 2020, Apache Corporation announced several oil and gas shows in the Maka Central-1 well, offshore Suriname, in the Campanian sands and the Upper Cretaceous Santonian clastics. Location of…
Offshore Argentina: Tertiary play potential in the Malvinas Basin
Figure 1: Elevation grid and superimposed magnetically derived chronostratigraphic lines, supporting the timing of opening of the Scotia Plate. Searcher’s 19,182 km pre-stack reprocessed seismic data is part of a…
Alfredo Guzmán: Making a Case for Mexico’s Oil & Gas Future
Alfredo Guzmán is an untiring advocate for Mexico’s oil and gas industry and its people. He tells GEO ExPro about his years exploring new geographic and technical frontiers in the…
Trinidad: A Move to Gas
Since August 2019, Touchstone Exploration of Canada have been quietly logging impressive net gas pays and proving up significant gas reserves in Trinidad’s mature southern onshore trend. Map showing location…
Onshore Argentina Oil and Gas Explorers Package
Multi-client geoscience provider Searcher offers Argentina Explorers Package, which includes seismic and well data, to support oil and gas exploration in the onshore Neuquén and Cuyo Basins in the Mendoza…
The Guyana–Suriname Connection
Following the trend and showing that the Canje source kitchen does not stop at borders. The proposed Kwaskwasi well lies between the Maka Central discovery to the north-west and Sapakara…
The Bolivian Altiplano: The High Plateau in the Mountains
As Olivier and Caroline continued their epic cycle through South America, they found crossing the high plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano to be a direct encounter with pristine and pure…