Exploration
Article
May 2020
Exploration sunset?
Article
April 2020
New algorithms, from an innovative seismic toolbox, generate a different approach to stratigraphic and structural event studies by combining large datasets, to identify hidden trends and subtle changes around geologic features.
Article
April 2020
The sky is falling or contango?
Article
March 2020
Reasonable competition?
News
February 25, 2020
Equinor ASA has dropped plans for oil drilling deep in the ocean off Australia’s south coast following a sustained campaign from environmentalists who said the project posed too big a risk to the marine ecosystem.
Article
February 2020
2020—Had enough yet?
News
January 17, 2020
Oil production in Angola has slumped by a third in the past decade to less than 1.4 million barrels a day, reflecting years of underinvestment in new projects.
News
January 16, 2020
Turkey will issue new exploration licenses in the eastern Mediterranean now that it’s set a maritime border with Libya, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday, a step liable to exacerbate strains with Greece and the European Union.
News
January 16, 2020
Gulf Energy Information announced the availability of EWA TechLink, a new spatial research tool pairing comprehensive technical content with detailed project data.
News
January 16, 2020
The new contract was effective January 1, 2020, with a maximum value of $250 million over 5 years, subject to appropriation by Congress.
News
January 14, 2020
PETROSEN has partnered with TGS, GeoPartners and PGS to provide over 14,000 km of 2D data, over 10,000 km² of 3D data and over 50,000 km² of Multibeam data with associated shallow cores and geochemistry, to interested parties.
News
January 13, 2020
Norway’s vision of establishing a new major oil province off its northern tip has suffered another blow.
News
January 09, 2020
South Sudan's President, Salva Kir, seeks to reverse the "lack of environmental standards and guidelines" in its oil and gas activities, as the East Central African nation seeks to ramp up production.
News
January 09, 2020
China said it will open up oil and gas exploration to private and foreign firms, offering further details of a policy that will help assuage concerns over access to the industry ahead of next week’s signing of an interim trade deal with the U.S.
News
January 08, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said officials would announce a plan by mid-February that would make clear how private companies could participate in the nation’s energy sector.
News
January 07, 2020
The Maka Central-1 well successfully tested for the presence of hydrocarbons in multiple stacked targets in the upper Cretaceous-aged Campanian and Santonian intervals and encountered both oil and gas condensate.
News
January 07, 2020
The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority has announced the launch of its next offshore licensing round in the Harper basin, one of the last unexplored and undrilled regions offshore West Africa.
Article
December 2019
Reducing exploration to save money or “climate” is stupid
News
January 02, 2020
The independent oil producer’s first discovery of the new year comes after a calamitous 2019 in which its stock declined 64% and the chief executive officer and exploration chief stepped down.
