La Brea Pitch Lake: The Largest Tar Pit in the World
The largest tar pit in the world, La Brea Pitch Lake in Trinidad, has a fascinating history and awaits approval as a Unesco World Heritage Site – even if it…
South America
The Pre-Salt Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of the South Atlantic
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
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…
Santos vision: innovative seismic data processing in a super giant oil basin
Figure 1: Structural map of the top of salt encompassing the 34,000 km2 of the Santos Vision program and including the outline of the next phase extension. The survey covers…
Oil and Gas Exploration in Latin America: From Shallow Shelf to Deepwater
A brief overview of the history and future of oil and gas exploration in Latin America. Explorers first stepped out from prolific onshore basins into shallow water just after World…
Aiding the Next Steps of Oil and Gas Exploration in the MSGBC Basin
A new integrated approach to oil and gas exploration in the MSGBC Basin, North West Africa. The Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea Conakry (MSGBC) Basin is home to several…
Overcoming Seismic Imaging Challenges in Highly Congested Areas
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
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…
Ceará to Potiguar: new insights into an underexplored hydrocarbon province
GeoStreamer Data Reveals Exploration Potential PGS GeoStreamer 3D datasets are positioned to give explorers in Ceará and Potiguar the best opportunity to de-risk these play fairways and prospects. Significant shallow…
Pre-Salt: The Brazilian shining star
Location of the XArray Triple Source project which will cover the Aram, Carcará and Uirapuru areas. Map showing fields and location of newly awarded acreage (Uirapuru) and the Aram,…
Exploration Update: Guyana
On 30 August 2018, ExxonMobil announced its ninth hydrocarbon discovery on the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana. Operator ExxonMobil Announces Ninth Hydrocarbon Discovery Offshore Guyana ExxonMobil on 30 August 2018 announced…
Geological Treasures of The Puna Plateau
A tour of the geological treasures of The Puna Plateau in northern Argentina and Chile. Continuing Olivier and Caroline’s epic cycle journey through South America. “What’s the altitude?” I look…