New Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in Brazil
Polarcus brings clarity to the seismic imaging of the pre-salt geology in the Santos Basin. On Friday 27 of October, the results of the 2nd and 3rd Production Sharing Round…
South America
Geoscience in a Worldwide Climate Change Initiative
Homeward Bound: the largest-ever all female expedition to Antarctica. Climate Change & Gender Equality Paola at “Antarctica for the Brave” workshop in Antioquia, Colombia. Homeward Bound is an Australian initiative…
Exploration Update – Uruguay
2m oil-saturated sand marks the first technical discovery in the country. Hopes that Uruguay had made its first oil discovery were dashed when Australian operator, Petrel Energy, which has a…
New light on Northern Argentina
Map showing Argentina deepwater survey outline. A hibernating giant? The new long-offset data reveals insights into crustal architecture. Northern Argentina has a continental volcanic rifted margin, segmented by major transfer…
Brazil regional prospectivity: highlights for future rounds
Prospectivity highlights of open blocks in Brazil main basins Foz do Amazonas Basin Foz do Amazonas is the most northern of the Brazilian equatorial margin basins. The ANP 11th Round…
Exploration Update – Mexico
Significant Oil Discovery Talos Energy made history in late July 2017 when it made the first ever private sector discovery of a new structure offshore Mexico. Its Zama 1 wildcat,…
Exploration Update – Grenada
In late October 2017 Grenada’s Prime Minister, Keith Mitchell, cautiously confirmed the country’s first discovery, saying that Global Petroleum Group (GPG) found indications of natural gas while drilling the Nutmeg…
Exploration Update – Colombia
Purple Angel Confirms Gas In recent years, Colombia has become Latin America’s fourth-biggest oil producer, behind Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil, and it is now following that with a number of…
The Oil Within
Susan Morrice, co-founder and chairperson of Belize Natural Energy “A passion for what you are doing makes the difference,” says Susan Morrice, co-founder and chairperson of Belize Natural Energy –…
Beneath Belize
New online data repository with all seismic acquired since the late 1960s A new online national data repository for Belize provides access to a digital catalog of all seismic data…
Exploration Update – Guyana
New Discovery Near Liza One of the most exciting discoveries of 2015 was Liza, in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek Block, which opened up a new South Atlantic play and was the…
Sergipe Basin: Undrilled potential surpasses giant offshore discoveries
Figure 1: Spectrum seismic data and 2017 blocks. Figure 2: Constrained gravity model. Sergipe Basin Potential Revealed Integration of key data has resulted in a better understanding of the petroleum…