The team at GEO EXPRO wishes you a great New Year, full of energy!
As many people will have headed back to either their (home) office today – brutally ignoring all of those who have continued working on site regardless of whether it is…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
A truly global event focused on prospecting, business transactions, and deal-making for the oil and gas E&P sector
A catalyst for deals to be struck and new ventures to be undertaken, BEOS will bring together Oil and Gas Majors, IOCs, NOCs, Independents, E&P firms and Governments, whilst also…
Geothermal resources show their limits
Development of geothermal capacity in Turkey has seen a rapid increase over the past decades but has recently slowed down.
A unique well at a unique time
“It is easy to reconstruct the rifting and drifting history between South America and Africa. Similarly, it is straightforward to piece together the extensional history between Norway and Greenland. But…
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…
“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…