Halfdan Carstens, Author at GeoExpro

Posts by Halfdan Carstens

«A historic moment»

Following a 12-minute trip from the seafloor to the production vessel Hidden Gem, nodules were dewatered and sent along a conveyor to the vessel’s hold for storage. The entire operation took about one hour upon which nodules were collected along…

Halfdan Carstens

October 17, 2022

Toward Responsible Deep Sea Mining

In parallel with the development of a seafloor nodule collector (Patania II) for use in the deep Pacific Ocean, the Belgian company Global Sea Mineral Resources NV (GSR) initiated the development of a new system – COMPASS – integrating different…

Halfdan Carstens

October 14, 2022

Getting ready for nodule harvesting

Early October, The Metals Company commenced the next phase of an extensive environmental baseline and impact monitoring campaign in preparation for the company’s subsidiary NORI’s ongoing pilot nodule collection system trials (“geoexpro.com: Green Light for NORI”). Equipment aboard the monitoring…

Halfdan Carstens

October 11, 2022

Public understanding is the main victim

“The history of the nuclear power industry offers a cautionary tale for the growing deep-sea minerals (DSM) industry, with many of the same players involved in the anti-DSM campaign and using the same playbook, amplified with mastery of social media,”…

Halfdan Carstens

October 10, 2022

Green Light for NORI

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has recently recommended that The Metals Company (TMC) subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI), proceeds with independently monitored pilot collection system trials in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) between Hawaii and Mexico. With this green…

Halfdan Carstens

October 4, 2022

Three weeks to go

The second international industry conference about deep-sea minerals in Bergen, Norway, October 25-27 – Deep Sea Minerals 2022 – has an impressive programme with speakers from many parts of the world and some of the major players in deep-sea mineral…

Halfdan Carstens

October 3, 2022

Impossible Mining re-emerges as Impossible Metals

After careful consideration of the fractious debate surrounding seabed critical minerals, along with firstly, the novel approach to harvesting metals in a way that keeps the ecosystem intact, and secondly, processing metals using naturally occurring bacteria, Impossible Mining has decided…

Halfdan Carstens

September 28, 2022

The very first licences for nodule exploration

As of February this year, three seabed mineral exploration licences were awarded in the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone: Cobalt (CIC) Limited, Moana Minerals Limited and Cook Islands Investment Company (CIIC) Seabed Resources Limited, the latter co-owned by the Cook…

Halfdan Carstens

September 22, 2022

The green future is also metallic

The consequence of building a green future, according to Gerard Barron, Chairman & CEO of The Metals Company, is that “our generation will need to mine more metal than we have mined in our entire history”. “Electric cars, wind and…

Halfdan Carstens

September 15, 2022

The race is on

The Cook Islands with – to say the least – a huge Exclusive Economic Zone, did earlier this year issue three 5-year contracts for the exploration of polymetallic nodules in the abyssal plain surrounding this tiny country. While there is…

Halfdan Carstens

September 11, 2022

Manganese Nodules: Innovative Harvesting and Processing

Impossible Mining, a battery-metal mining start-up only two years old, is now working on Proof of Concept for both environmentally friendly nodule harvesting and bio-extraction technologies. No wonder the marine mining industry is curious. Avoiding the plume The most talked-about…

Halfdan Carstens

September 7, 2022

A Big Step for a Small Company

The Norwegian company Green Minerals AS and Oil States Industries (UK) Ltd (“OSI”) have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a collaboration for the development of a Harsh Environment Deep Sea Minerals System (HEDSMS) – against a long-term contract…

Halfdan Carstens

September 5, 2022

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Posts by Halfdan Carstens

«A historic moment»

Toward Responsible Deep Sea Mining

Getting ready for nodule harvesting

Public understanding is the main victim

Green Light for NORI

Three weeks to go

Impossible Mining re-emerges as Impossible Metals

The very first licences for nodule exploration

The green future is also metallic

The race is on

Manganese Nodules: Innovative Harvesting and Processing

A Big Step for a Small Company

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