South America

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…

Priority onboard

Onboard processing: field geophysicist Andrey Seliverstov utilising the interactive map view. How to break the stereotype A priority service without compromise. Sometimes in an industry, we have to ask ourselves:…

Exploration Update – Guyana

ExxonMobil announce fifth discovery offshore Guyana. ExxonMobil announced on 5 October 2017 that it had made its fifth discovery offshore Guyana with the Turbot-1 new field wildcat. Located in the…

Mexico Revival

The revival of successful exploration is a much-needed breather for the Mexican oil industry. Production has been decreasing in Mexico since 2007, in recent years by almost 9% annually, primarily…