A room full of the best intentions
London, Thursday 14 December, GESGB CCS Symposium. I must admit that I’m getting a bit tired of the ongoing CO2 storage discussions. Why? Because I feel that we keep on…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
“Rigs are fantastic places for R&D”
“I have always wanted to have one foot in the field and one foot in the lab, to better solve practical problems in the oilfield”, says Guy Wheater on a…
Why do cables get stuck during open-hole wireline logging operations?
In his book “Oil Notes”, geologist Rick Bass describes the importance of logging operations. Only after completing a log run, the well can be properly classed as a success or…
“I think it is going to be mission impossible”
“The key challenge when it comes to storing CO2 is containment”, says Raffik Lazar, CEO of Dubai-based GeomodL International. “And the only element I can trust in the containment scenario…
Are the glory days over?
As the magazine’s last issue of the year is now being printed, I have a bit of time to reflect on some of its content. That’s the advantage of being…
A famous North Sea unconformity in outcrop
The most important gas fields in the Southern North Sea region are reservoired in Upper Permian Rotliegend aeolian and fluvial sandstones. Thousands of wells have been drilled to test this…
Shifts in the seismic acquisition space
“In the past, we as a provider of OBN and streamer technology would mostly liaise with seismic acquisition companies; our exposure to oil companies was very limited,” says Gaetan Mellier,…
Heating a block of houses rather than a single one
Closed loop geothermal systems, with a heat pump superimposed, form a new and promising way of domestic heating systems. Hundreds of small rigs are actively drilling these loops across many…
A deeper oil-bearing reservoir in the Gulf of Suez
In August, Cheiron announced the discovery of a 165 feet oil column in pre-Miocene Nubia Formation sandstones in exploration well GNN-11. The well was drilled into a fault block to…
A can-do mentality required
“It’s funny, says Iain Brown, “I had been an avid reader of the magazine for years when I was asked to take over the editor position from Jane Whaley, but…
Drilling twice as fast in basement rocks
John Gibb’s Aberdonian accent is noticeable even though he has spent many years in Houston. “I drilled many wells throughout my career”, he says, “including highly deviated development wells on…
“It’s a great excuse to initiate a conversation with people”
What does it mean to co-chair a major geoscience energy conference? That is what I asked Max Brouwers in a call yesterday when we spoke about the AAPG ICE Conference…