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Oil & Gas
Unlocking the deep offshore potential of the Mahanadi Basin
The eastern Continental Margin of India (ECMI) is a 2,500 km long passive margin that…
Will Greenland be the next oil hotspot?
These days, it is quite common to hear that frontier exploration is a thing of…
Exploration in the vast marine expanse of Oceania
Texas-based Palau Pacific Energy (PPE) is the operator of the North Block Concession, off the…
Predicting viscosity in an undrilled panel of a deep-water field in West Africa
In 2023, the rapid oil production decline from the Bombadil Field (fictitious name), deep-water West…
Before the collapse in oil production, Venezuela saw another collapse – the mass firing of most of PDVSA’s technical staff
Many people on LinkedIn wrote about the dramatic decline in oil production from Venezuela from…
The Gambia’s offshore acreage is hot again
The West-African margin is back in the exploration spotlight, not only because of yesterday’s announcement…
On the Horizon
NAPE Summit
Houston, USA, 18–20 February
Orphan, Abandoned, Idle, and Marginal Wells
Tulsa, USA, 18–20 February
GeoTHERM 2026
Offenburg, Germany, 26–27 February
EAGE Digital
Stavanger, Norway, 9–12 March
Geothermal 2026
Aberdeen, UK, 11–12 March
Seabed Minerals 2026
Bergen, Norway, 24–26 March
SEG
Luanda, Angola, 24–26 March
EGYPES 2026
Cairo, Egypt, 30 March – 1 April
AAPG CCUS
Houston, USA, 30 March – 2 April
EAGE Sub-Saharan Africa
Maputo, Mozambique, 13–15 April
SRC 2026
Manila, Philippines, 13–15 April
Energy Transition
Carbon Capture & Storage
Being smart with data
On the fringe of the EAGE GET Conference in Rotterdam, I meet with May Zhang,…
Are the problems around the Gorgon CO2 storage project proof that CCS does not work?
“The world’s largest CCS project, the one that underpins CCS as a climate solution, as…
How a sandbox model caused an epiphany
“I think I watched it about 50 times,” Sean tells me when we meet online…
Geothermal
A very expensive fart in the wind
Early December last year, Eavor announced the start of electricity production from their Geretsried deep…
Where the earth yawns
I first visited Iceland a decade ago. Recently, I returned, courtesy of a European Geothermal…
Denmark to embark on an innovative geothermal drilling project
Green Therma, in collaboration with Aalborg Forsyning (the local utility company), is currently preparing to…
Seabed Minerals
Deep-sea mud trial extraction to begin in 2026
Japan is set to launch test mining of a unique deposit of rare earth element…
American company eyes seabed mineral opportunities in Norway
“Earlier in my career, I have had the privilege of working in Norway, which is…
World’s first deep-sea mineral reserves declared
The metals Company’s (TMC) August release marks a milestone in its history, as well as…
New Gas
France’s first stimulated natural hydrogen project
Clean hydrogen production from electrolysis remains expensive and difficult to scale, leaving industry without the…
A “monumental deposit” or an attempt to revive coal-seam gas exploitation?
A discovery of hydrogen in Lorraine, France, made headlines in 2023. “Hydrogen deposit of staggering…
Natural hydrogen exploration offshore Southern Cuba
It is generally accepted that most of the natural hydrogen is generated by reaction with…
Exploration Opportunities
From cuttings to clarity: AI unlocking the Norwegian Continental Shelf
This project enables geoscientists to gain access to a groundbreaking digital dataset - the Analytics-Ready Cuttings Dataset, available through EarthNET AI Images under a commercial software license. Developed by Rockwash Geodata (RW) and Earth Science Analytics (ESA), this collaboration transforms decades of geological cuttings from the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) into an intelligent, machine-interpreted data product designed for exploration, CCS, and renewable-energy applications.
Sweetness and light in Oman’s Indian Ocean
Around 375 BC, Plato used the “Socratic Method” to ask philosophical questions that led to deeper understanding of what it means to be Human. In 2025 Searcher reprocessed legacy seismic data from Oman’s Indian Ocean margin, seeking to challenge conventional exploration models. What we found was a brave new world of source rocks and trapped hydrocarbons that challenge what it means to be an Explorer.
Cameroon: Unlocking potential and reigniting exploration
Cameroon’s Douala/Kribi-Campo (DKC) and Rio del Rey (RDR) Basins offer significant exploration opportunities, underpinned by advanced seismic reimaging, integrated geological evaluation and modern interpretation techniques. In the RDR Basin, focus is shifting from the mature shallow Miocene-Pliocene plays to deeper Cenozoic turbidites and the Cretaceous succession, where improved imaging and regional analogues point to significant untapped resources. Meanwhile, reimaged 3D data in the DKC Basin illuminates stratigraphic, structural, and combination trap opportunities, adjacent to the Kribi-Campo High, and improves understanding of complex channel systems and salt-related plays. Together, these insights demonstrate how modern imaging and integrated geological analysis can unlock prospectivity across both basins. With the 2025 Licensing Round now open, Cameroon presents a fresh opportunity for discoveries and renewed exploration success.
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From the Industry
Mitigation, precaution, and exclusion zones: Aligning science with policy
A Global Focus The energy geoscience industry operates offshore worldwide, engaging with governments, regulators, communities,…
Leading the wave: Environmental impact assessment for offshore geophysical operations
Environmental Impact Assessments, or EIAs, are a critical tool for evaluating the potential effects of…
Geoscience & marine life: Sustainably coexisting
Since 1995, the geophysical industry has become accustomed to mitigation protocols that aim to minimize…
Subsurface
In the news
Subsurface noise, Issue 5, 2025
MOPANE DOES NOT GIVE AWAY ITS SECRETS Namibia is an exploration hotspot, and for that…
A loss of connection to our energy system
Three essential pillars of modern society are food, energy and access to clean water. The…
EMGS in troubled waters
Yesterday, I was browsing through some of the early GEO EXPRO magazines when I stumbled…
Geology & Geophysics
The absurdity of security… or… comfortable being uncomfortable
My father, 90, is a product of the random precariousness of this world. His mother’s…
Going deeper for salt mining
The Dutch subsurface is well known for its gas resources, hosting the world-famous Groningen field.…
What do air hockey and induced seismicity have in common?
At first glance, air hockey – a fast-paced arcade game – and induced seismicity –…
Portraits
When geology just happens, and you happen to be quite good at it
Geology? Going to university? It was not on his mind at all when he finished…
Escaping the relentless cycle of re-orgs
“The reactions were overwhelming,” Samuel says at the start of our conversation in October. He…
The value of seismic attributes and the value of having your own business
“We need this,” said a geoscientist from a major operator in Houston once Laurie Weston…
Technology
Producing more by producing less
“The pressure in the separation unit, where the produced oil is separated from gas, is…
Quantifying the hydrogen-generation potential of iron-bearing rocks
Everyone working in basin modelling and geochemistry knows what Rock Eval machines do; they provide…
It’s time to introduce chromostratigraphy
“Off-white, grey, quartz-rich, some occluded quartz and kaolinite.” Simon Molyneux cites the description of a…
Stories on Camera
Coring process step by step
We often talk about core being the only ground-truth data from the subsurface, but how…
How new seismic and old core have shed new light on the Zechstein play along the Mid North Sea High
As part of the Aberdeen Energy Talk series, PhD student Thomas Houghton from Aberdeen University…
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