The Gex Permit covers an area of 932 square kilometres and is located in eastern France near the Swiss border.

The area is located in the Alpine Molasse / Jura Basin where active oil seeps, bitumen mines and shallow drilling has proven an extensive zone of shallow (<500 metres) oil in the Molasse sands and deeper drilling indicates a working hydrocarbon system with trapping potential. The majority of wells on the block encountered oil.

The initial focus on the deeper targets will be the large surface Grand Cret anticline which has closure at Triassic level. Analysis of recently collected oil samples, geological studies and the interpretation of the existing seismic should give increased definition of both the Grand Cret and the other illustrated anticlines.