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Oil & Gas
Japex’ hopes to prove commercial gas offshore Japan down following completion of exploration well in Hidaka Trough
Japex completed an offshore exploration campaign in the Hidaka Trough last week, a tectonically active…
Serendipity maximisation
“When people make a creaming curve for a basin,” says Ian Longley from GIS-Pax, “they…
The Supermajors are scaling up, are you?
In the noughties and 10s, wildcat exploration, the fierce frontline of the E&P sector, was…
New oil in an old field
Whilst attending a webinar the other day, Andrew Latham from WoodMac presented an overview of…
Improving the signal-to-noise ratio in Venezuela’s oil and gas industry revival
One of the dominant themes in the petroleum industry in 2026 remains Venezuela and the…
On the Horizon
Energy Transition
Subsurface Storage
The subsurface is a key factor in explaining the poor result of the recent Danish CCS tender
Denmark is one of the countries that aims to be a leader when it comes…
Carbon capture and mineralisation pilots in the Middle East
44.01 named their company after the mass of the molecule that is central to their…
Diverting the flow: The hidden power of overburden barriers
Since Mark Lakos joined Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD) from Wintershall Dea a bit more than a…
Geothermal
Cape Station and the case of the missing reserves report
In a press release dated June 10 2025, Fervo Energy announced a reserves report by…
The low productivity of enhanced geothermal systems
Fervo Energy operate the world’s most well-funded Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) project at Cape Station,…
Eavor stepping away from operator role in Geretsried
Fair play. I have published about Eavor before, and I’ve been critical not only of…
Seabed Minerals
Japan retrieves rare-earth-rich mud from 6,000 m in deep-sea’s first
Japan has successfully retrieved sediment containing rare earth elements (REE) from the seabed off Minami-Torishima…
The benefits of being a second mover
“I was in oil and gas for most of my career,” says James Deckelman, the…
First seabed copper from Norway
Over the past three years, academia and industry joined forces in the project EMINENT to…
New Gas
A helium prospect without a trap
After the initial hype of helium exploration in the Rukwa basin in Tanzania, things went…
Until now, hydrogen exploration wells were drilled half-blind
There is often an element of coincidence associated with how companies form. That also applies…
Western Pyrenees foothills – the hotspot for natural hydrogen
The growing interest in hydrogen within the context of the energy transition has recently led…
Exploration Opportunities
A Cenomanian- Turonian source rock adventure in the Pelotas Basin
After the Aptian source lying on top of the early-drift oceanic crust, the second most important source rock in the South Atlantic is the Cenomanian-Turonian (CT) sequence, a pelagic organic-rich mud ubiquitously deposited in a global anoxic event. Seismic velocity inversion of 3D seismic data in the Pelotas Basin reveals a nuance to the CT-driven play, interpreted to be partly
reworked by contourites. The hunt for tools to chase this phenomenon is on…
AI-driven integration for deeper subsurface insights
Artificial intelligence is transforming geoscience, enabling unprecedented improvements in seismic interpretation, reservoir characterization, and multi-disciplinary data integration. Traditional subsurface workflows – often slow, siloed, and constrained by manual interpretation – are being reshaped by foundation models, multi-modal learning, physics-informed neural networks, and agent-driven automation.
Recent breakthroughs in seismic foundation models (SFMs), multi-modal geoscience transformers, and generative AI have demonstrated substantial gains in speed, accuracy, and generalization across surveys. These advances mark the beginning of a new era in earth modelling: One that promises holistic, continuously updating digital twins of the subsurface.
From image to insight: Why seismic data quality matters for CO₂ storage
High-quality subsurface imaging, especially of the shallow stratigraphic section, is critical to the success of CO₂ storage projects. In 2014-2018, Viridien began acquiring a regional broadband 3D seismic survey in the Northern Viking Graben (NVG). This regional dataset covers the Horda Platform in the north and Stord basin in the south, as seen in Figure 1 below. This dataset has been reimaged with Viridien’s latest proprietary technologies through continuous development, as industry demand for higher-quality data has grown. The newly reimaged NVG data (see map) reveals potential opportunities in semi-open aquifers with substantial storage capacity in the Stord Basin, where suitable reservoirs and seals may enable efficient injection and trapping of CO₂.
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Hybrid terrain, unified technology – GT’s land‑nodal system for high‑quality transition zone seismic data acquisition
For sixty years, Geofizyka Toruń (GT) has built its reputation by pushing technological boundaries and…
UH EAS Professional Master’s Programs: World-Class Petroleum Geoscience Education, Built Around Your Career
The University of Houston’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers two fully accredited professional…
Collaborative solutions to above-ground exploration challenges
EnerGeo Alliance programs are structured, collaborative initiatives designed to address non-competitive challenges facing the energy…
Subsurface
In the news
Subsurface noise #8
THE REALITY BEHIND FLASHY JOB TITLES I recently spoke with someone who works for a…
Europe versus US oil majors
European oil majors face a structural dilemma: How to balance near-term hydrocarbon revenue with long-term…
Geology & Geophysics
The tricky part of resource assessments within gas-dominated basins or petroleum systems
When conducting prospect resource assessments within gas-dominated basins, there is a low likelihood of oil…
The very first core cut in the UK North Sea
It is boxing day 1964, a day most people in the countries around the North…
What are we risking and why is it important?
Risk is about the chance of finding producible hydrocarbons; uncertainty is about the volume of…
Portraits
“Running a company is like having a long-term relationship – you have to give and take, but always carry on”
“Moscow was a dark place near the end of the 1980s. Literally, dark. It was…
The story behind Mexico’s biggest discovery in decades
What does it take to make the biggest discovery a country has seen in decades?…
Technology
Turning the tide
There is a big difference between conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon production when it comes to…
Drilling problems? Ask your CEO
Henrik Tingström didn’t need much time in the industry to see how much unstructured data…
Mistaking speed for progress
Much of the AI we see today is very domain-specific and, in my mind, one-dimensional.…
Stories on Camera
Coring assembly
During our second visit to Reservoir Group’s coring warehouse and workshop in Aberdeenshire, Steve Rait…
Coring process step by step
We often talk about core being the only ground-truth data from the subsurface, but how…
How new seismic and old core have shed new light on the Zechstein play along the Mid North Sea High
As part of the Aberdeen Energy Talk series, PhD student Thomas Houghton from Aberdeen University…
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