An analogue for Ephesus?
BP has just completed the Ephesus or Cape Creel exploration well off the northeast coast of Canada, which has unfortunately been reported dry. The main target of the well was…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Norway inches closer to opening up for deep-sea mining
“We need minerals to succeed with the energy transition. Today, resources are controlled by a few countries, which makes us vulnerable. Seabed minerals can become a source of access to…
Using GR and dipmeter, it is possible to differentiate between proximal and distal settings (parallel to flow) in deep-water environments?
Deep-water depositional environments add another level of complexity compared to many other environments”, says expert Bryan Cronin when I visit him in his sea-front cottage in Aberdeen. Bryan has been…
Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?
Twenty years ago, the first edition of Devex took place in Aberdeen. At the time, the conference revolved around extending the life of oil and gas fields. “Not much has…
95% of seismic data was unused – for the wrong reasons
“My first start-up failed”, said Bill Shea at the EAGE Annual in Vienna recently. “But, maybe it was meant to be, because the second time it went much better and…
Schoonebeek oil production is on hold in the Netherlands – again
When looking at a map of the Schoonebeek oil field and its equivalent in Germany (see below), one would almost think that the Germans and the Dutch agreed on the…
“If I do it again, I want to do it even better”
At some point in the last few years, Anders Kihlberg asked himself: “What were the best years of my life?” Soon he came to the conclusion that it was the…
Companies feel pressure to accelerate frontier exploration
“I might as well go gardening if it was not my role to speed up the process of discovering reserves through frontier exploration”, said Neil Hodgson from Searcher. One of…
Coring the seal of a geothermal reservoir
In the little village of Monster, which ironically translates to “sample” in Dutch, operator HVC recently completed a new geothermal well. The well targeted the Lower Cretaceous Delft Sandstone, from…
An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem
Shell is a large company, and with that comes the existence of siloes across the organisation. Management in Shell recognised that as a problem, and therefore it created spin-off company…
Tractors and Technology
“Remember, oil is a product of nature”, says César Patiño when we meet on Teams in April. In his role as a delegate for the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration…
From oil and gas to geothermal
Now known as S3 Smart Seismic Solutions, I met with Jean-Baptiste Chalvidan and Patrick Robert at the EAGE Annual in Vienna last week. “Compared to the years with CGG, where…