12. Galapagos

Galapagos’ Production Rates Above Forecast (USA)
Press Release, July 11, 2012

The Galapagos development includes three deepwater fields. The fields – Isabela, Santiago and Santa Cruz – are being produced using subsea equipment on the floor of the Gulf.

Noble Energy: Galapagos Wells Producing Oil, Gas
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 – 11:21am

Galapagos: Volcano Erupts After Series of 9 Earthquakes
Published 17 June 2018



13. Somalia

Offshore Somalia: East Africa’s Oil Frontier
Hannah Kearns, Jake Berryman, Neil Hodgson and Karyna Rodriguez, Spectrum

Peace is bringing hope, seismic exploration and evidence of exciting hydrocarbon-bearing structures offshore Somalia.

This article appeared in Vol. 13, No. 2 – 2016

Somalia’s offshore hydrocarbon systems have been slowly maturing since the Jurassic period. Now, after ten years of relative political peace, Somalia is set to emerge as the new hot-spot for the industry, offering not only vast reserves to match the Rovuma Basin of Mozambique, but also the most elusive of prizes in East Africa – black oil.

New seismic data from offshore Somalia are revealing extraordinary structures, in an oil-prone frontier province that has never been seen or explored before. The data correlate closely with the potential field results, and the most recent seismic is imaging gigantic structures that have never been mapped before.

Striking resemblance to the astonishingly successful plays in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique indicate that offshore Somalia is about to become the hottest area offshore East Africa, with not only the promise of huge hydrocarbon potential, but also a strong indication that this time the hunt is on for black oil.“.

14.  Spain, Canary Islands

From Spanish: Tax on national hydrocarbon production

The ‘fracking rate’ collides with the fall in oil and only collects 2 million
07/11/2016 02:55

One of the first measures that the new government has on the table will be to approve the distribution of the first income obtained by the so-called fracking rate. This is the tax approved in December 2014 to tax the production of hydrocarbons in Spain with which it is intended to reward the neighbors of those territories in which the surveys are carried out.

New gas fields near the Canary Islands lures the interest of some business sectors
by Carlos Sánchez, 12/01/2015

Manrique de Lara, believes it is “wonderful news” that the US multinational Kosmos Energy has confirmed a new deposit of gas 1,200 kilometers south of the islands. In the opinion of this business leader “Africa’s environment development generates wealth and new opportunities to the Islands’ economy” since it means consolidating the strategy of the Canarian ports to serve as a logistics center in the Atlantic that offers services related to logistics, repairs , vessels supply, support industries, etc. In fact, the president of the Industrial Association of Canary (Asinca), Eugenio Castillo, is cautiously optimistic about how this can impact on the secondary sector of the islands. For Castillo short-term benefits will not be many until the reservoir is operated and its production marketed. On a longer term the economic impact will indeed be felt in the islands by the movement of ships and rigs and demand by utilities.

Morocco Not Exploiting Canary Islands Waters: Spanish Minister
By Morocco World News – Jan 31, 2018/

In December 2017, Morocco’s National Bureau of Hydrocarbons and Mines signed an agreement with Italy’s ENI for offshore operations near Tarfaya. The agreement raised the concern of some in the Canary Islands due to the close proximity of Moroccan waters to the islands which depend heavily on tourism.

Spain’s Canary Islands fume over oil exploration
August 14, 2014

Spain’s government sparked an outcry Thursday by giving oil group Repsol the all-clear to explore for oil and gas off the coast of the tourism-dependent Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands may be the new Aberdeen of the Mid-Atlantic
12/9/2015

With geological similarities to marine sedimentary basins in Brazil, the potential of “pre-salt” reserves of West Africa have gained increasing interest for exploration, and the oldest oil rigs in use in the waters of Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico have moved to this region. Currently there are about 100 oil rigs carrying oil and gas production in the Gulf of Guinea.

Oil and gas giants Chevron, Petrobras, Total, Seadrill, Transocean, Odebrecht, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Ocean Rig and Cols are just some of the companies who have trusted in the highly competitive services of operators like Zamakona Yards, Astican, Hidramar, Tenerife Shipyards, RNT Canary Feed Repair or Atlantic Ship Diving to repair many of their oil rigs in recent years.


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4 COMMENTS

  1. Dear Gall,
    there is no separation between “fossil” & “non-fossil” fuels. Methan is the base molecule of the carbon-hydrogen molecules or we could say that all the other carbon-hydrogen-molecules (2CH6, 3CH8, 4CH10, 5CH12 etc) are a chain of methane molecules (CH4).

    Carbon-hydrogen molecules form if the carbon and hydrogen are available and pressure and temperature are suitable. This can be in the digestions system of animals, in the crust and mantle of the Earth, in a laboratory or a factory.

    Methane from Earth crust is the main product which is broken out of the underground rock formations by Nuclear Fracking! So framing this fracking methane as a “renewable energy” is deadly wrong. Yes it is reproduced all the time in all layers of Earth’s crust, but that doesn’t mean it would be available without any danger and pollution.

    If there wasn’t the radioactive contamination, earthquakes and tsunamis, fracking out gas from deep rock formations would be a good solution. The same applies for fracking plus underground gasification of coal beds.

    Currently all this is done without risk avoidance and compensation of death and damage. In some states of the USA and also in Netherlands and Great Britain there are controls and limitations about the earthquakes, but in countries like Haiti and Indonesia, there is no limit and accordingly 200K+ of dead people. But no one cares because all think that these earthquakes and tsunamis as well as the deadly storms were “natural catastrophes”.

  2. Thanks for recommendations Gall.

    In our times the native people all over the world are abused to promote global colonialism and sad to say particularly the people of the pacific island states fall perfectly into this trap. They are bombarded by geophysical technical storms, experience death and damage, but buy the story about the “rising sea level”.

    In climate conferences their politicians are allowed to speak as marionettes and their music and art groups to present their culture of naivety and submission.

    When the corporations get access to their or neighboring shores and start exploding nuclear bombs in the underground for fracking and cause deadly earthquakes and tsunamis, the media is filled with “helping hands” and collecting money, which all lands in the accounts of Clinton Foundation and other perverts.

    I don’t only blame the gruesome imperialists, but also all the people who love to be victims and live in a psychology of victimization.

    Under the conditions of geoengineering, now all people, all animals and plants are in danger. Globalist Colonalinalism/Fascism/Corporatism is not racist. It kills all, without any exception.

  3. Dear Gall,
    please look at the statistics of CERES about fracking, which are quoted in this article.
    I could write more about fracking in the USA. More background knowledge is collected in other articles which also will be published here on VT.

  4. “Fossil Fuel is Nuclear Waste” > CanadaFreePress(.)com
    Hydrocarbons exist throughout the Universe and on Earth, are a fission heat and elemental atoms (nuclide) byproduct. Methane has Specific Gravity of 0.44 and when outgassed has four year half-life in the atmosphere. Responsible capture and use of this renewable resource could be a benefit to all humanity. Capture and misuse by demonic plutocrats is detrimental to humanity.

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