The evolving role of seismic reflection data within offshore site investigation.

Waste to tackle waste. Researchers at Flinders University in Australia have come up with a novel way to clean up oil spills, using waste cooking oil from fast food outlets.

Eastern Canada is one of the most promising deepwater exploration areas in the world, where the implementation of state-of-the-art imaging technology is critical to develop a more detailed local subsurface understanding.

Five years on, what has Mexico’s energy reform delivered for the country’s oil and gas exploration and production ambitions?

Provider of marine geophysical services Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a major ocean bottom seismic (OBS) deepwater remotely operated survey (ROV) project by TGS and partner in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Gulf of Mexico final investment decisions are likely to be put on hold, as oil and gas exploration and production companies join the budget-cutting parade.

A brief summary of oil and gas licensing rounds affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, that were announced by date of writing (April 2020).

The locals call them ‘Kerry Diamonds’; beautifully clear, euhedral quartz crystals found in fault zones at the western end of the Dingle Peninsula in south-west Ireland – but the real gem is the Peninsula itself!

The last three years’ technical exploration success rate in the eastern European Pannonian Basin ranges between 83 and 94%, while the commercial oil and gas success rate is at least 50% and will probably approach the technical success rate.

In February, the UAE announced the significant discovery of 80 Tcf of in-place shallow gas resources, named Jebel Ali.

Neptune with partner Palatina GeoCon are testing oil at Schwegenheim-1 in the German Rhine Graben.

ExxonMobil have recently completed a three-well drilling campaign on VIC/P70 offshore Gippsland Basin, south-east Australia.

Geoscience magazine GEO ExPro Vol. 17, No. 2 is available for download. This edition of GEO ExPro focuses on North America and the Gulf of Mexico; New Technologies; Near Surface Geophysics; and Changing Public Perceptions.

Israeli premier Golda Meir once said, “Moses took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil”. We look at the history of oil exploration in this region.

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in some welcome shows of solidarity, as countries help each other out with medical assistance, urgent supplies and, importantly, research into vaccines and cures, and it will undoubtedly have some positive long-term effects on the environment.