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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...
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...
Exploration of the Papuan Plateau: How revolutionary geophysical technology reveals new seismic insights
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...
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...
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...
Why the conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil may have even more to offer than the Orange Basin in Namibia
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...