Geomechanics is the study of how subsurface rocks deform or fail in response to changes of stress, pressure and temperature and it is becoming increasingly important in oil and gas exploration.

Bringing world-class geological field locations into the classroom using virtual reality technology.

Enhanced mega-regional hydrocarbon play and reservoir fairway maps in the Gulf of Mexico have resulted from improved tectonic restorations of its US and Mexican conjugate margins.

Integration of sediment provenance analytical techniques is yielding critical new insights for hydrocarbon explorers around the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

The oil and gas industry has everything to gain from high-quality structural maps and this article from Dr. Francis Richards aims to tell you just how to generate the best structural maps.

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

Seabed samples from the Baffin Bay document an active hydrocarbon system offshore northwest Greenland.

The final part of this 2-part article reviews the validity of the potential plays in the area in terms of the Golden Zone concept.