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 five targets that fall within 1 kilometre of a verified oil or gas well, including the giant Brent and Forties 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. For that reason the odds below describe a single blind point landing this close to a real well across the full survey area. They do not rely on, and are not inflated by, the fact that some areas contain many wells; each figure is the probability for one point on its own.
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 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.