Many companies are now re-focusing on play-based exploration, representing a return to our pre-1990s geoscience roots. Play-based exploration involves understanding all elements of the petroleum system for a given basin or play and then examining how, and more importantly where, those elements come together. This paper will examine the fundamental methods using examples across Asia and review step by step procedures of the play-based exploration process.

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