The points on this map are target coordinates produced by GeoVENA, a proprietary predictive targeting system, in a single run across the full offshore survey area of the North Sea (approximately 778,000 km²).
Shown here are seven targets that fall within 1 kilometre of a well that found oil or gas, according to the official UK well records, including the Brent, Forties and Cygnus fields. Each target is paired with its well, marked by a production facility symbol; the well name, coordinate, oil or gas result, and the distance are on each marker.
The system holds no information about any location, no well, no field, no map, nothing. Every target is produced blind. To measure the role of chance, the same number of random points was placed across the same survey area and compared with all 8,522 UK wells that found oil or gas:
An important point about these distances: the surface facility marks where the drilling entered, not where the resource sits. Offshore wells are drilled from a surface position that can stand some distance from the reservoir itself, which lies deep below and to the side, and a single reservoir can extend for kilometres. A gap of a few hundred metres between a surface wellhead and a target falls within the extent of the same accumulation.
Every target is produced through a single, repeatable run of the system. Nothing about the method, its inputs, or its workings is disclosed.