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Petronas ambitious 2025 drilling campaign offshore Suriname

Andres Mesa, NVentures

July 25, 2025

Petronas has reinforced its position in Suriname’s prolific offshore Block 52 with a series of successful discoveries since 2020 – Sloanea-1, Roystonea-1, and Fusaea-1-along the Upper Cretaceous Golden Lane trend.…

Back on the shelf

Henk Kombrink

June 16, 2025

As TotalEnergies is moving ahead developing its deep-water discoveries in Block 58 in Suriname waters, there is a drive to discover more resources nearby. And rather than focusing on deep…

Sandwiched between two major petroleum provinces, Suriname’s shallow offshore bid round acreage will be popular

Jonathan Leather - NVentures

February 27, 2024

The second shallow offshore bid round in Suriname was launched in November 2023 at the ICE Conference in Madrid. Management Presentations and Virtual Data Rooms have been available since 18th…

Have bottom currents defined the Golden Lane and determined updip prospectivity?

Nick Cameron - GeoInsight

February 19, 2024

Since the prolific Cretaceous oil kitchen of the Canje Formation offshore Guyana was demonstrated by Lawrence and Bray (1989), an anomaly related to the lack of exploration encouragement away from…

Tidal influence in a deep marine turbiditic succession

François Raisson, TotalEnergies

January 18, 2024

The Suriname-Guyana basin is a genuine exploration hotspot these days. But it is not only a hotspot from an economical point of view, it is also an area where new…

Hit and miss, but the Suriname trend stretches east

Guest Author

October 5, 2022

The well was drilled by the Noble Gerry de Souza drillship between July and August 2022 in 1140 m water. TD was reached at 5,290 m, similar to the 5…

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