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Onset of Maturity: A tool for getting your oil finding game on
By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher In the hunt for oil and gas, explorationists work in convolution space between the sensory, observable or empirical world, and the conceptual constructs of idealized systems. Here we...
The Renaissance Tour: A revival of frontier basins with data-driven exploration
Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson & Lauren Found - Searcher The Renaissance Tour: A Revival of Frontier Basins with Data-Driven Exploration explores advancements in seismic technology and their transformative impact on petroleum exploration in...
The Gulf of Papua: Challenging industry perspectives of prospectivity with evolving geophysical technology
Lauren Found, Simon Crellin, Helen Debenham - Searcher The offshore Gulf of Papua is a significantly under-explored region of the world, with only 32 offshore wells drilled in an area covering over 180,000 km2. These wells are constrained to the...
The future has arrived
By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher Cyber Punk’s visionary pioneer William Gibson wrote, "The future has arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet”. And certainly the future on the Atlantic’s passive margins is not...
Deepwater exploration: It’s the hope that keeps us here
By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher You are reading this at both the end and the beginning of extraordinary Eras. Humanity is engaged in a desperate mission to search for the carbon-based energy resources that will “fill...
Developing the Kuda Tasi and Jahal discoveries offshore Timor-Leste
By Aaron Bond and Shane Westlake, Finder Energy with acknowledgements to Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher The chase for first oil is on in the Northern Bonaparte Basin where Finder Energy holds licenced acreage with legacy, fully appraised...
Pacific oil rush: The sequel – and this time it’s Ecuador
By Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher The first Pacific oil rush 100 years ago in California was driven by natural oil seeps onshore driving the exploration of what was to become the fourth largest oil producing state in the...
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...