It’s the temperature that matters
“The Golden Zone concept and its clear significance for understanding oil and gas occurrence seem not to be widely known within the petroleum industry”, write Paul Nadeau, Shaoqing Sun and…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Extended reach drilling for geothermal energy production
The energy transition is about pipe, lots of pipe. Where gas can be transported across the globe, geothermal energy, especially the low-temperature version of it that is mainly used for…
Why did it take so long to develop Rosebank?
Rosebank was discovered in 2004 by Chevron and partners DONG, OMV and then StatoilHydro. The reservoir quality of the Paleocene/Eocene Colsay Sandstone Member was shown to be good (around 20%),…
Half full or half empty
“Oil major ExxonMobil bets that through technological advances, shale producers can manage to double crude output from their existing wells.” That was one of the headlines from an article published…
Embracing change
“My parents approached my upbringing in different ways”, says Hayet when we met up on Teams to do the first part of this interview. “My father, an accountant, is curious…
A passion for the product
“My best tip for salespeople new to the job is to establish long-term relationships with clients. Let them know you will go the extra mile and show them a passion…
Are Sleipner and Snøhvit calling into question the long-term viability of CCS?
It appears that the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), headquartered in Ohio US, is overly critical towards the future of Carbon Capture and Storage projects. The Institute…
Dynamic model giant Groningen field publicly released
With the imminent cessation of production from the giant Groningen gas field in the north of the Netherlands, the operator NAM – a joint venture between Shell and Exxon Mobil…
Applications for the current UK Licensing Round reveal a focus on gas
As Paul de Leeuw from Robert Gordon University noted during the panel session at a Westwood Energy event in Aberdeen last week: “Before the COP26 Conference in Glasgow, new oil…
A geothermal gold rush
When it comes to producing geothermal energy, Munich is without a doubt the place to be in Germany. As the map here clearly shows, the city is dotted by wells…
inApril successfully completes first project of the North Sea season
The initial nodes from the company’s rental pool have already seen successful service on one North Sea project and are now being deployed on a second for a different OBN…
Doing it differently
Approved in 2002, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada, US, looked to become the country’s final destination for high-level radioactive waste for quite a few years. Until 2011,…