The challenge at Gorgon
“Every CO2 project will have its unique challenges”, said Chris Stavinoha from Chevron during his presentation at SEAPEX last month. And as he explained during his talk, Chevron’s Gorgon CO2…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Geothermal energy production can be profitable
“It kept me in the job”, said Elliot Yearsley when asked about scale and corrosion in geothermal wells by a participant during the recent Seapex Conference in Singapore. Yearsley had…
“It’s the amplitude anomalies that brought us back”
“When I prepared the slides for this talk”, said Nick Comrie-Smith from Harbour Energy during his presentation at the Seapex Conference in Singapore early March, “I considered the title “Shooting…
Spotted at…
A conference about digitalisation and subsurface data in Norway – it is a platform where one would mainly expect people from energy companies and the related service sector. But the…
A shallow geothermal borehole in a single day
“We’re operating five rigs continuously across the UK,” Ashley Lowthian from GreenGlove Boreholes tells me when I visit him and his colleague at a drill site in Garthdee, Aberdeen. Ashley…
The next step in a digital journey
Sometimes one hears people from operators moan about service company folk trying to sell their products at conferences. Such remarks do not do justice to these companies, as they are…
“I felt like in a knowledge vacuum”
“When starting out my career at Saga Petroleum in the late 1970s, about ten years after the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector in 1968, I was curious to…
Swimming in subsurface data
In the UK, it is not that long ago that people had to go to the Department of Energy and Climate Change – which is now the North Sea Transition…
More wells should be drilled with water-based mud
“All cuttings brought to surface need to be shipped ashore when they are contaminated with oil-based mud (OBM)”, says Anita Hansen in a recent conversation. Anita has decades’ worth of…
Loke acquires deep-sea mineral licences in the Pacific Ocean
Loke Marine Minerals announced yesterday that it acquired UK Seabed Resources’ deep-sea mineral business. UK Seabed Resources (UKSR) holds a 100% interest in two deep-sea mineral licences located in the…
“Shooting a fish in a barrel”
Conversations at conferences are a good way to verify what people think. And there were many people at this week’s Seapex Conference; with more than 400 participants the number exceeded…
The eyes of North Sea geology
“I never intended to join the oil and gas industry”, says Peter Thorn whilst we are being served a coffee in a café overlooking Aberdeen Harbour on a cold and…