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.

What is the hydrocarbon potential of the Mozambique Channel, and what has the ‘Golden Zone’ theory got to do with it?

The geological history of the Davie Ridge tells us how tectonic, erosional and climatic forces shaped this part of the earth, pushing the mountains of west Madagascar, which once abutted what is now the coast of Somalia, southwards into the Indian Ocean.

The Permo-Triassic Khuff reservoir is one of the most productive gas fields in the world. What are the factors which have helped it to become so prolific?

Is it possible to generate hydrocarbons over the oceanic crust?

Using blue sky science data to aid in de-risking black gold exploration.

Last year a giant crater was discovered on the Yamal Peninsula south of the Kara Sea in the Russian Arctic, just 30 km south of the giant Bovanenkovo oil and gas condensate field. It rapidly became world famous as the Yamal crater, holding secrets to the degasification of the Earth’s core.

An insight into some highlights of the offshore hydrocarbon potential available in almost virgin exploration territory.