South Atlantic – a raging bonfire of memes

South Atlantic – a raging bonfire of memes

By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher In the words of Fat Boy Slim, the best time in the history of our industry to be an explorer is “right here, right now”. In the South Atlantic, the deepwater plays are now low risk and huge as the biassed...
Orpheus in the Mialara Sub-Basin

Orpheus in the Mialara Sub-Basin

By Karyna Rodrigues, Lauren Found and Neil Hodgson, Searcher In the East Palawan area, modern seismic data has revealed extensional horst-graben systems with more than 10 km of sedimentary fill in the Mialara Sub-Basin. Pre-rift, syn-rift and post-rift petroleum...
Namibia’s Orange Basin and the holey slope mystery

Namibia’s Orange Basin and the holey slope mystery

By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found, Searcher In the Orange Basin of Namibia and South Africa, a hole appears on the gently dipping clastic slope. In time, it slowly creeps down the slope as if moving under gravity and leaving a filled-hole trail behind...
The Big Buzz of Buzzard II

The Big Buzz of Buzzard II

By Neil Hodgson, Lauren Found and Karyna Rodriguez – Searcher In 2011, Dave Bamford reported the old adage: “The best place to find oil is in an oil field!” Dave was writing about methods of improving recovery, and of course, the simplicity of the observation is what...