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Jan 7, 2025 | 
geoexpro.com | Karyna Rodriguez |Neil Hodgson |Lauren Found |Marzena Pyteraf
Offshore Ecuador as the sweet spot for oil explorationIt is about time to conclude that a single gas field does not do the prospective nature of Ecuador enough justiceHollywood loves a geological sequel. Just about any film with “The Rock” in it will spawn a more successful follow-up or two, so after California showed the way for discovering oil on a destructive margin, the rest of the Pacific margin was sure to follow.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
geoexpro.com | Neil Hodgson |Karyna Rodriguez |Lauren Found |Marzena Pyteraf
Left hand side: 2024 Pelotas Basin, Brazil Quick Look 2.5 D Post-STM depth converted Right hand side: 2023 Orange Basin, Namibia, GAP Fast Track Pre-STM depth converted. Both sections are at the same horizontal and vertical scale – neither are depth-shifted to achieve the tie.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
geoexpro.com | Lauren Found |Neil Hodgson |Karyna Rodriguez |Helen Debenham
Holding out for a hero: How evolving geophysical technology revolutionised a Frontier BasinA lot can change in twenty years. In 2004, the Nintendo DS had just been released, Facebook was taking its baby steps and Jennifer Saunders graced the world with one of the best covers of a pop song known to man in Shrek 2.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
geoexpro.com | Lauren Found |Neil Hodgson |Marzena Pyteraf |Karyna Rodrigues
East of Eden: The Mialara basin, the Philippines’ last low-risk frontier for exploration greatnessArguably the first subterranean explorer to return from the untrodden lands below was the Argonaut Orpheus, descending to the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice. Although the geology of this adventure is not recorded, it was a successful retrieval until just short of success, he looked behind him to check his wife was following and in doing so, Eurydice was lost forever.
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May 13, 2024 | 
geoexpro.com | Neil Hodgson |Karyna Rodriguez |Lauren Found |Lisa Julianne Nystad
On any 2D dip line, we can see several almost triangular notches, divots or holes in the seabed, some 1.5 km in width and 250 m deep. Upslope, the divot wall is at a lower angle than the downslope face, which is truncated, and erosional. The upslope face is mirrored in the subsurface by a set of reflectors that extend to the same depth. Look for all appearances like prograding units marching back up the slope.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
geoexpro.com | Lisa Julianne Nystad |Neil Hodgson |Karyna Rodriguez |Lauren Found
Gondwanan break-up-basins and their multiple source rocksThe advantage of Namibia’s conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil is likely to be the sand and clay deposited by the Rio Grande In the face of the embarrassment of riches discovered in the Namibian Orange Basin over just the last two years, one might speculate that had F. Scott Fitzgerald been trained in geology, the Great Gatsby might have opened as follows.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
geoexpro.com | Neil Hodgson |Lauren Found |Karyna Rodriguez |Henk Kombrink
Four 3D seismic surveys comprising the “Big Buzz” dataset. Buzzard II: the sequelHow about looking for another Buzzard field, next to the one that was found over 20 years ago? Our geological understanding is only ever a transient one – based on integration of well and seismic data at any given time. To change the story we have two choices; re-understand the integrated models we build, or change the data.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
geoexpro.com | Neil Hodgson |Karyna Rodriguez |Lauren Found |Lisa Julianne Nystad
3D that’s fast, cheap and good! And all three together in the Hottest basin on Earth So far this year, approximately 18,000 square km of new 3D was acquired in the white-hot Orange Basin of Namibia, aiming to delineate the Venus and Graff plays and constrain similar related plays and development opportunities in the basin. 6,700 square km of this 3D data was multi-client, the first of which was acquired over PEL85, operated by Rhino Resources.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
geoexpro.com | Neil Hodgson |Lauren Found |Karyna Rodriguez |Henk Kombrink
Two for the price of one: Source rocks aplenty fuel South America’s next exploration frenzyAcross the globe, explorers are waking from a disturbing dream where the oil and gas industry was vilified into a new dawn where ‘accessible’, ‘available’ and most importantly ‘affordable’ hydrocarbons still have a role to play in propelling humanity towards a sustainable, better world.
