Over the last 70 years, Doha has risen from the sands of the desert to become a major, glamorous regional power.

The super-giant East Baghdad oil field lies in the heavily populated outskirts of Baghdad. Can it be successfully and safely exploited?

GIS databases are a powerful tool for minimising exploration risk in Iranian hydrocarbon basins through geospatial analysis.

Yemen’s petroleum resource base will be a critical part of reconstruction efforts once peace is restored, but this will require high-resolution exploration and development in both onshore producing basins and offshore frontier areas in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Yemen has plenty of potential – but the country’s war has significance far beyond its boundaries.

Qeshm Island: Geoheritage Pearl versus Gasfields in the Persian Gulf?

Iran provides a significant opportunity to access low cost production for the right companies. In response to the removal of sanctions, we take a look at the opportunities and challenges, both technical and commercial, of working in the country.

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?

Lebanon lies at the centre of known regional hydrocarbon systems, but it is poorly explored and understood, possibly due to topographic challenges to terrestrial geophysical acquisition. A recently acquired suite of airborne geophysical measurements complemented by sub-surface regional resistivity data aims to remedy this situation.

Oil Discoveries off the Arabian Shore

The Triassic margin is a significant but underexplored frontier play in the Levant region, particularly in Jordan.

The Middle East – one of the most stable E&P markets

Mahmoud Abdulbaqi, retired VP of E&P at Saudi Aramco, and one of the founders of the Bahrain GEO series of conferences, tells us about his career and his belief that the way forward for the industry is through finding, educating, training and retaining the right people.

Understanding the complex structural history of the Zagros is key to unlocking the potential of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Buraimi: The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia, Michael Quentin Morton. I.B. Taurus (2013)