Ocean-bottom seismic acquisition is encroaching on the traditional marine streamer market by offering unique, scalable and efficient solutions for exploration and development of oil and gas.

Dr. Munim M. Al-Rawi, a highly-respected and pioneering Iraqi-Irish geologist, and popular contributor to GEO ExPro Magazine, died suddenly but peacefully on 1 November 2018 at his home in Ireland.

Integrating technologies for basin analysis improves geological and geophysical models, enabling the next generation of hydrocarbon exploration.

The licensing round, which opened in July, focuses on frontier and underexplored hydrocarbon regions in the UK Continental Shelf.

Africa is struggling to convert discoveries into producing fields however further hydrocarbon discoveries will shape the future success for oil and gas production in Africa.

After several low years of oil and gas exploration activity in Australia, it looks as though drilling potential is picking up.

With an annual average of 1,100 cubic metres of water plunging down its 108m-high face each second, Victoria Falls is unquestionably one of the world’s greatest natural wonders.

With over 1.4 Bbo of resources discovered in Uganda in recent years, including several giant fields, we look at the history of recent hydrocarbon exploration and its progress to first oil.

ConocoPhillips successfully drilled and tested discoveries on the Narwhal Trend, onshore Alaska.

On 30 August 2018, ExxonMobil announced its ninth hydrocarbon discovery on the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana.

Promising deepwater hydrocarbon find on the Guanxuma prospect in the Santos Basin, Brazil.

What does 30,000km2 of seismic data from offshore western Ireland tell us about the hydrocarbon prospectivity and drilling potential of the Porcupine Basin?

PGS modern broadband seismic coverage of Côte d’Ivoire now provides complete coverage of the area from source to sink.

Both Sub-Saharan Africa and North West Europe have a long history in oil and gas production and they both continue to keep on surprising us.

Propelling the science of geophysics through cooperation to meet the grand challenges of tomorrow.