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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...
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...
Affordably making the invisible unmissable
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
A big beast makes a big point
By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher Geo ExPro Issue 5 2023
Hacking the source rock code in Nova Scotia’s deep water
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...