Study de-mystifies sediment plumes
Oceanographers at MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and elsewhere have developed a model that makes realistic predictions of how a sediment plume generated by mining operations would be transported…
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Honoured for Deep Sea Minerals initiative
Bloomberg Media has since 2011 published a ranking of the 50 Most Influential with “the ability to move markets or shape ideas and policies”. In this year’s ranking, Ståle Rodahl…
Plenty of “rock batteries” on the ocean floor
Figure caption: Manganese nodules are formed as accretions at 4500 meter in the deep Pacific Ocean. They grow very slowly, about 1 cm per every million year, meaning that the…
From New York to Bergen
On July 8, the Norwegian company FREYR was listed on the New York stock exchange. On October 20-21, the company will present at Deep Sea Minerals 2021 in Bergen. As exploring for…
The Deep Sea: A Potential “Copper Mine”
As clearly pointed out by IEA in the May 2021 report (“The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transition”), solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, wind farms and electric vehicles (EVs)…
“Found” 7 profitable MMboe
Lime Petroleum acquires 33.84% of producing Brage Field in Norway from Repsol. As of 15 June 2021, Lime Petroleum entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Repsol Norge…
Large discoveries in the Triassic are still possible
“Within EMGS, we would have been very excited if additional prospectivity had been proven within the Snadd level related to the observed resistor. This could have been a play opener…
“Remarkable success”
“The success rate over the last 18 months has been remarkable for such a mature area [as the NCS],” Torgeir Stordal, director of technology and coexistence at NPD, said during…
In the forefront of exploration technology
“Finding new commercial oil and gas is becoming increasingly difficult,” Torgeir Stordal, said director of Technology and Coexistence at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) in his opening keynote at the…
We will know in a few weeks’ time
Equinor is currently drilling 7322/6-1S (Shenzhou), a prospect some 40 km west of Wisting, in an area of the Bjarmeland Platform that has not been explored extensively before. It is…
The size of small fields tends to be overestimated
Based on an analysis of 40 fields that started production since 2010, Anders Wittemann from Wittemann E&P Consulting (WEPC) concludes that it is predominantly smaller fields that appear on the list…
The Barents Sea Conundrum
Looking at the present-day creaming curve, it will take up to 100 years to find 7 billion barrels. If these barrels are there to be found in the first place.