South America

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…

Improving 3D images

A deep, structurally complex carbonate reservoir offshore Philippines has been imaged with great clarity and resolution, despite the severely rugose water bottom and stratigraphically complex overburden. This has been accomplished…

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…

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…

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…

2019 bid round treasures exposed by ocean currents

Location of the Angoche Basin and Spectrum 2D seismic lines. Drifting towards 2019 bid round treasures Mixed/hybrid deepwater turbiditic-contouritic depositional systems are only just beginning to be understood, but show…