New high quality 2D seismic datasets and a regional prospectivity study bring greater understanding of the distribution and extent of prospective hydrocarbon plays throughout the Banda Arc.

South East Asian oil and gas explorers started 2020 with new licensing rounds and extensive exploration drilling and seismic programmes planned but the current economically challenging conditions created by Covid-19 is likely to extend, delay or temporarily suspend these activities.

Korean company Posco International has discovered a new gas field in Myanmar with exploration well Mahar-1, located in offshore Block A3 in the Rakhine Basin.

This 'Hot Spot' feature gives a brief overview of the exploration and production activity of gas in the Eastern Mediterranean.

In October 2019 the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) launched the county’s second licensing round, releasing a total of 18 new blocks for public tender, covering a large percentage of the total on and offshore area of the country.

Proven oil and gas reserves up for grabs in Malaysia’s next world-class acreage offering.

Full Tensor Gravity GradiometryTM (FTG) has entered a new era with multiclient acquisitions.

PETRONAS and PetroEDGE have embarked on a project to bring favourite geological field trip locations to a wider audience.

The use of innovative technologies opens up huge volumes of remote oil and gas resources in the Yamal Peninsula in Russia.

A Minute to Read: Following the devastating Gorkha earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015 there has been an intensification of earthquake research on and beneath Mounth Manaslu.

Insights from the only five wells drilled to date, together with modern seismic data, reveal that there is still much to be unraveled in the East Palawan Basin of the Philippines.

A number of high value prospects in the Azeri sector of the Caspian Sea have piqued the interest of major operators, fostering a resurgence of oil and gas exploration activity in Azerbaijan.

In February 2019 Repsol announced that its Kali Berau Dalam-2X (KBD-2X) well had found at least 2 Tcf of recoverable gas, making it the largest discovery in Indonesia for 18 years.

The implications for hydrocarbons are different from previously interpreted in this new study on the petroleum geology of Eastern Indonesia.

Despite having a long history in petroleum production – and being the place where the anticlinal trap was first recognised – there is much left to learn about the geology of Myanmar and its remaining hydrocarbon potential.