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…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
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…
How to attract the majors?
When it comes to finding new oil and gas fields, there’s not much that can beat the excitement of frontier exploration. Drilling wells in areas where no one has gone…
The slick anomalies that led to the drilling of Ephesus
The Ephesus prospect – or Cape Freels as it is called by OILCO – lies in the western part of the Orphan Basin. This basin finds its origin in the…
What a meeting at a conference can do
“As many people from my generation, I started my career with Saga Petroleum”, says Tore Karlsson. Having graduated as a geophysicist from the University of Bergen, at Saga he was…
Ampfing’s flirt with the subsurface is not over yet
There are probably not too many climate activists in the small village of Ampfing in Southern Germany, as the information plaques and monuments dedicated to the local history of oil…
Dropping nodes from a supply vessel
“While the node market has evolved in the sense that individual nodes have become smaller and therefore lighter to handle”, a completely new way of operating these devices has not…
Oil is out, CCS and Geothermal are in at EGC1
When the plenary keynotes concluded on the first day of the Energy Geoscience Conference (EGC1) in Aberdeen last week, a very interesting thing happened. The room, which had been pretty…
Revolutionising shallow geothermal borehole drilling
“We have been drilling in London’s complex geology for years now. The progression from completing only one borehole every two days, to now having the capability of delivering two in…
This is why Ephesus is a well to watch
Sometimes a map says more than a lengthy story. That is the case here. We plotted the exploration wells drilled on the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf on a bathymetric map…
Norway creates room for more exploration, but it won’t get a thank you from Europe
“I am touched and excited with this government”, wrote E&P analyst Anders Wittemann on LinkedIn yesterday. He referred to the announcement of the 2023 APA Round – Awards in Predefined…
Is it possible to differentiate between meandering and braided river deposits using gamma-ray logs?
For most people working in subsurface teams, discussions related to the interpretation of depositional facies on the basis of well logs are part of the daily routine. The more geologists…