Breakeven prices are similar, but tight oil has the largest growth potential.

In 2018, Sharjah's first onshore licencing round opened, offering companies 30-year contracts in an area with a production history demonstrating a 90% recovery factor.

Shell encountered more than 244m of net hydrocarbon pay in the Mississippi Canyon Block; exploration update Gulf of Mexico Basin, offshore USA.

Eni has made a new offshore oil discovery in Angola; exploration update offshore Angola.

The Dorado-1 well discovers more oil in the Triassic Caley Sandstone Reservoir and gas condensate in the Baxter Member; exploration update for offshore Australia.

Strike slip faults can extend for thousands of kilometres, and envelop many of the typical geological structures we use in basin exploration to define different petroleum play systems in particular in the tectonic evolution of East Africa.

Trace fossils and ichnofacies can compensate for a lack of preserved sedimentary structures in core and outcrop studies.

A newly developed method for detecting petroleum seepage using surface geochemical exploration.

PetroMarker’s unique 3D vertical EM technology acquires robust data for new development opportunities in already-explored areas such as the Norwegian Sea.

SDX Energy has made a gas discovery on the onshore Lalla Mimouna exploration permit in the Gharb Basin, northern Morocco.

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announces a new Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP).

PGS superior GeoStreamer PURE pre-stack broadband seismic imaging reveals super producer hydrocarbon discoveries in the North Sea Viking Graben injectite structures.

Sapura Energy confirm success for exploration in the Sarawak Block of Malaysia's Greater Sarawak Basin.

New high resolution 3D seismic data acquired by TGS redefines exploration opportunities in the Norwegian North Atlantic Margin

The deliberate search for additional reserves in proximity to producing assets pays off.