by admin | Mar 5, 2025
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 oil discoveries....
by admin | Jan 7, 2025
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...
by admin | Oct 21, 2024
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 huge as the biassed...
by admin | Sep 16, 2024
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 into an...
by admin | Jul 8, 2024
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 post-rift petroleum...
