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For years the Faroe Islands have had to look on while their larger neighbours in north-west Europe have extracted untold riches in hydrocarbons from offshore acreage. Has their turn finally come?
 Brazil’s Newest IndependentA new spin-off from HRT Petroleum, South America’s largest service company, HRT Oil & Gas, is staking their fortunes deep in Brazil’s Amazon Jungle. 26.05.2010
Read more |  The Dinosaur CoastThe steep, towering cliffs along the Yorkshire Coast of northern England have become a favoured field excursion destiny for petroleum geology students. Excellent analogues to the Middle Jurassic Brent reservoirs in the North Sea make a perfect excuse for students who need practical exercises in sedimentology. 29.05.2010
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 Drilling UphillIn Brunei, Shell has an ongoing programme drilling into the reservoir from below. Drilling, completing and producing an upside-down well, however, poses a number of interesting questions. 31.05.2010
Read more |  Jurassic TargetsWhile the first deep water wells in the Norwegian Sea failed to reach the Jurassic, significant data improvements may now make it possible to delineate Jurassic targets in deep grabens and structural highs. 26.05.2010
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The giant Forties Field was discovered in 1970, only the second oil field to be found in the UK North Sea. Originally predicted to run dry by the early 1990, it has now produced 2.64 billion barrels – and is expected to continue for another 20 years.
Installing a Life of Field Seismic system on Ekofisk will help understand reservoir depletion and ensure future production wells are drilled where there is still oil left.
3D seismic in the Barents Sea reveal promising traps and convincing flat spots.
A thirty year independence struggle with Ethiopia means that the natural resources of Eritrea remain largely untapped, but there is ample evidence that this now peaceful country is highly prospective for oil and gas.
“This is a historic day. We have reached a breakthrough in the most important outstanding issue between Norway and the Russian Federation,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg prior to the signing of an agreement between the Norwegian and the Russian negotiating delegations on the bilateral maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
One of the major challenges in understanding the nature of the subsurface is to accurately depict geology when data is sparse. By combining well logs and seismic data, seismic inversion can be used to visualize subsurface geostructures in a realistic form.
Miocene deep water sands were the target for the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252, and it is probably from one of these sands that the blowout originates.
In late April it became known that Norway and Russia had agreed upon a common marine border in the Barents Sea. An area equivalent in size to the North Sea fairway was made available overnight. Fugro Multi Client Services has an extensive data base and good geological knowledge covering both sectors of the Barents Sea and Idar Horstad, General Manager, volunteered to share his thoughts about the prospectivity of this huge area.
The third and final Geocontroversy debate at the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference last year centred on the future of one of the most mature hydrocarbon areas in the world, as delegates discussed the motion: ‘Is exploration in the North Sea finished?’
Offshore Ghana has been one of the most talked about new frontier areas in recent years. Three fields that have been discovered lately now make a huge difference.
A largely untested 15,000 m of syn-rift and post-rift succession of Middle Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous sediments in the offshore Ceduna Sub-basin beckons exploration.
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