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…
South America
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…
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…
Oil Jackpot in Guyana
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
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…