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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

South America

2019 bid round treasures exposed by ocean currents

Karyna Rodriguez and Neil Hodgson, TGS
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…

Oil Jackpot in Guyana

Peter Elliot and Rog Hardy, NVentures Ltd
With 14 oil discoveries adding up to an estimated six billion barrels of recoverable oil over the last two years in just one block (Stabroek), offshore Guyana is proving to…

Deepwater Santos Basin: extending the pre-salt play outboard

Cian O'Reilly, James Keay, Jianli Song, Griselda Martinez, Seung Yoo Taejong Kim, Eric Newman and Pedro Zalan; TGS
Huge potential in undrilled Southern Santos Basin The prospectivity of the deepwater outboard Santos Basin is revealed by new 3D seismic. With a daily oil production in the region of…

The Pre-Salt Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of the South Atlantic

Paul Wright, Carbonate Geoscience
There are wide lessons to be learned from the controversy over the origins of the enigmatic Cretaceous lacustrine carbonate reservoirs of offshore Brazil. Figure 1: Location of Santos and Campos…

A Closer Look at the Hydrocarbon Plays of the South Atlantic

Hermann Lebit, Jeff Tilton, Sriram Arasanipalai, Pascal Ollagnon; PGS
The timing of continental extension relative to salt deposition and the impact of pre-salt faulting is critical to reservoir formation and exploration success in the South Atlantic. Major advances in…

Overcoming Seismic Imaging Challenges in Highly Congested Areas

Paul Sandvik and Ed Hager, Polarcus; Mhammad Adnan and Daniel Sturko, Dubai Petroleum
Combining streamer and node technology to provide high resolution seismic in congested areas with a fast turnaround. This year, Polarcus was challenged by Dubai Petroleum to provide a high-resolution, fast-turnaround,…

Caribbean Atlantic Margin Deep Seismic Imaging

Jennifer Masy, Tom Wolden and Robert Sorley; MultiClient Geophysical AS (MCG)
A new regional study of the South-Eastern Caribbean hydrocarbon exploration opportunities using deep seismic imaging. In March 2019 MCG completed acquisition of 16,433 km of long-offset high resolution 2D seismic…