Ireland: Barryroe project back on track?
Irish based Providence Resources P.l.c. strives to secure the Barryroeoil field farm-out process.
Posts by Halfdan Carstens
Wintershall Dea with promising discovery
The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Early and Middle Jurassic (the Ile Formation and the Tilje Formation). The secondary exploration…
NCS: Slowdown in drilling activity
«The number of explortion and appraisal [E&A] wells will most likely drop below 30 this year, and the low oil price is of course the reason,» says Anders Wittemann with…
POSTPONED – UNTIL OCTOBER
We will reschedule the event to October 2020 and revert with further information about dates and venue. We appreciate all the efforts made by the program committee in putting together…
Provides a higher recovery factor
– Permanent reservoir monitoring is a powerful tool and an important part of the complicated work of producing as much as possible of oil and gas in the most cost-efficient…
A Global Ambition
With ten years as drilling engineer in Statoil, Lundin, VNG and AGR, and with experience from locations as far apart as the North Sea, the Middle East and Africa, Jim…
High-Value Barrels
Out of 17 discoveries made on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) last year, a minimum of ten of them will be presented at the conference NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries…
A revolution in seismic interpretation
Ever since computers began to become part of everyday life for geologists and geophysicists, many have feared the evolution. The frightening scenario has been that the rapid increase in engine…
How geology made America great
A combination of political, social and economic events is used to explain the rise of the United States into an industrial power. However, there is another factor that played a…
Disappointing exploration
Only 12 Bboe of conventional oil and gas were discovered globally last year, according to Rystad Energy. This is about the same as in 2018 and 2017, but far less…
New senior editor in Expronews
GeoPublishing, the publisher of Expronews.com, has increased its editorial capacity and competence, aiming for better products. Terje Solbakk started this year as a senior editor with a special focus on…
Equinor to develop field in Siberia
“This is an important milestone in the joint project that we have been working on for seven years,” says Elisabeth Birkeland Kvalheim, Country manager for Equinor in Russia. The North Komsomolskoye…