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,…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Dutch flagship CCS project given the go-ahead in court
More than 1000 people listened to the online broadcast of a hearing that lasted for about 3 minutes. There was something important at stake; the future of carbon storage in…
Can Aberdeen become a center for minerals needed for the energy transition?
On a rainy day in March, on a quiet countryside road north of the village of Ellon in Aberdeenshire, northeast Scotland, I am welcomed by geologist Drew Craig from Aberdeen…
CO₂ leakage out of a reservoir should be accepted as a risk
Rather than telling people that no CO2 will ever leak from a subsurface reservoir, geoscientists should rather use their expertise to explain that there are always risks associated with drilling…
“It’s not difficult, it’s different”
Many people think that heavy oil developments are even worse than lignite, but that is not the case according to Maurice Bamford who recently gave a talk on the Pilot…
Groundwater flow – a potential cost-saver for shallow geothermal loops
The energy transition is all about pipes. Where a single gas well was sufficient to deliver energy to power an entire city until recently, closed-loop geothermal boreholes are now increasingly…
Using old wells as gravitational energy storage devices
The ticket item in the energy transition is the efficient buffering of energy in order to overcome the intermittent nature of solar and wind. Old wells can help with that,…
A significant gas discovery at the right time
“Norway is the gift that keeps on giving,” said DNO’s Executive Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani in a press release last week, when the discovery of gas and condensate in well 35/10-10A…
An industry insider for more than 40 years
“I started my career in 1977 as a geologist with Decca Survey, working offshore on shallow, high-resolution seismic surveys; I was always the only woman on board and I think…
Directional drilling is going Wild
Twitter can be a good source of information as to what is going in the oil and gas sector, especially in the US. There are a few people from the…
From Statfjord Øst to Suriname – this week’s subsurface news and observations
Longboat – Acquiring interest in Statfjord Øst A small surprise this week was to see Longboat Energy acquiring a 4.8% share from INPEX in one of the most mature fields…
Where to drill in the Dutch offshore?
The GEODE platform, an online viewer and database compiled by EBN and TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands – provides an overview of the exploration potential and risks associated…