Onset of Maturity: A tool for getting your oil finding game on

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 investigate several of...
The future has arrived

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 evenly distributed...
Deepwater exploration: It’s the hope that keeps us here

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 the gap” between the...
Pacific oil rush: The sequel – and this time it’s Ecuador

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 USA. Offshore...