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 makes this powerful. So, in the spirit of stating the blindingly obvious to reveal a subtle truth: ‘The best place to explore for oil is next to the last oil field you found.” Whilst patently untrue in the case of the UK’s giant onshore geo-unicorn of the Wytch Farm Field, it is absolutely true just about everywhere else.
With these words in mind, Neil Hodgson, Lauren Found and Karyna Rodriguez find that the best place to explore for oil is next to the Buzzard oil field in the Outer Moray Firth of the UK’s North Sea, especially now that a reprocessed vintage seismic dataset is set to change an old narrative.