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.

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?

Revealing your drilling target’s sweet spots using seismic reservoir characterization techniques.

The next phase for Santos Basin appraisal and development will require new seismic data that captures the pre-salt accurately.

The geological exploration success of two deepwater underexplored basins; the Ceará and Potiguar Basins of Brazil, indicate working petroleum systems and potential deepwater reservoirs.

Since the discovery of Tupi in Brazil and Jubilee in Ghana, the search has been on to prove that discoveries on one side of the Atlantic can be mirrored across the ocean. But is a conjugate margin an analog?

The 2006 discovery at Tupi, offshore Brazil, opened up a new chapter for petroleum reservoirs: lacustrine carbonates capable of producing hydrocarbons at extremely high rates.

Cost-effective screening of frontier acreage is an essential early part of any deepwater exploration strategy at continental margins.

David Sturt, Chief Operating Officer of Azinam Limited, a Namibia-focused exploration company, tells us about the hydrocarbon potential off Namibia.