Since August 2019, Touchstone Exploration of Canada have been quietly logging impressive net gas pays and proving up significant gas reserves in Trinidad’s mature southern onshore trend.

BP’s much-anticipated Ironbark-1 offshore wildcat was finally spudded at the end of October 2020 offshore the North West Shelf of Australia.

New pre-salt hydrocarbon opportunities have been identified in the ultra-deepwater areas of the Santos Basin.

Multi-client geoscience provider Searcher offers Argentina Explorers Package, which includes seismic and well data, to support oil and gas exploration in the onshore Neuquén and Cuyo Basins in the Mendoza province of Argentina.

Patterns are emerging in the Guyana-Suriname hydrocarbon hotspot as further successes are announcement - indicating an even more promising future for oil and gas exploration in the region.

The source possibilities offered by the Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic in coastal East Africa are promising - but seriously underexplored.

Angola’s Onshore Kwanza Basin offers an underexplored basin with a world class petroleum system, presenting many oil and gas exploration opportunities for the upcoming Onshore Angola License Round.

The state oil and gas firm of Turkey, TPAO, has announced a major gas discovery at Tuna-1 in the western Black Sea.

Total, with partners Africa Energy, Qatar Petroleum and CNR, have returned to the deepwater Block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua Basin, offshore South Africa, to spud the Luiperd-1 well.

Eni, with partner Essar E&P, has appraised a large gas find with the Ken Bau-2X well in Block 114 of the Song Hong Basin, offshore Vietnam.

Despite optimistic expectations at the start of the year, with several high-impact wells planned, 2020 is the bleakest year in a decade for African oil and gas exploration.

Norway surprised many observers in June by announcing plans for a licensing round that signalled a major expansion of the availability of areas for oil exploration in the Norwegian sector of the Arctic Sea.

Using reservoir description and regional geology to recognize problematic non-reservoir facies in Equatorial and South Atlantic Margin Basins.

Review of new 3D seismic data in the Faroe-Shetland Basin has revealed new hydrocarbon potential of the Early Cretaceous syn-rift and Precambrian fractured basement plays along the northern extent of the Rona Ridge - one of the least mature producing regions on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

A triangular feature identified in modern seismic on the Papuan Plateau went 'viral' on social media amongst the geoscience community as geoscientists from all over the world debated their theories on this geological puzzle.