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By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher The article "Sweetness and Light in Oman’s Indian Ocean" explores the groundbreaking reprocessing of seismic data by Searcher in Oman’s Indian Ocean margin. This advanced analysis has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Lauren Found, Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Helen Debenham, Searcher This is the story of how a basin that was previously thought of as "cold", with only a thin veneer of Tertiary sediments deposited on top of oceanic crust, was transformed...

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...

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...

By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher, and Pablo Rodriguez and Bruno Conti, ANCAP The success of the Orange Basin in Namibia is mostly thanks to a thick Aptian drift source rock. However, it suffers from a lack of overburden...

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...

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez, Helen Debenham and Lauren Found demonstrate how reprocessing vintage data can bring new prospectivity to basins in Oman and East Coast India. Click here to view PDF First Break, Issue 41, December 2023

By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher Geo ExPro Issue 5 2023

Natasha MacAdam, Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson, Catie Donahue, Graham Spence show how a modern WAZ 3D survey in the salt basin, combined with reservoir, trap and DHI studies, demonstrate significant, ready-to-drill prospects on the Nova Scotian...

By Neil Hodgson, Lauren Found and Karyna Rodriguez, Searcher Geo ExPro Issue 4, 2o23 “The time for a conjugate leap from the significant discoveries of Namibia’s Orange Basin to the unexplored Pelotas Basin of Southern Brazil and Uruguay is upon...

By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher Geo ExPro Issue 3, 2023 How slumping, sliding and folding of passive margin stratigraphy creates the elements for successful exploration while the latest seismic imaging still enables...

By Karyna Rodriguez and Neil Hodgson, Searcher Geo ExPro Issue 2, 2023 The story of exploration off the shelf of Nova Scotia has been written by the courageous achievements of exploration giants equipped with only 2D data to locate their wells,...

By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Andres Mesa, Searcher Geodata UK LTD & Rob Yorke, AGT Geo ExPro Issue 1, 2023 Once again, reprocessing of legacy seismic data, this time in the Sinu Basin onshore Colombia, is providing a critical tool for...