Steamy headlines do not guarantee steamy results
“The geothermal potential of Geneva is confirmed”, stated the press release that was issued by website geothermies.ch in November 2022. This headline was not the result of a successful geothermal…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Challenging old concepts: Røver South discovery
New discoveries in mature areas are still possible. This is particularly true in the area north of Troll, where Equinor and partners have now made seven discoveries since 2019. This…
UKCS – a decommissioning hotspot
In two separate social media posts this week, Tom Morgan from Well Info nicely showed why the UKCS is such an active player when it comes to decommissioning wells in…
“I got kind of bored and underutilised sitting on the sidelines “refreshing” job pages”
“I decided to put my work out there and keep myself active, rather than just reposting work from others”, Jamie Vinnels wrote in an email. Jamie has been compiling subsurface…
Pensacola discovery could be one of the largest natural gas discoveries in the SNS in over a decade
The Pensacola well – 41/05a-2 – was spudded in November 2022. Deltic Energy worked up this Zechstein Hauptdolomite prospect, but with operator Shell farming in in 2019, drilling Pensacola became…
Very high level of confidence in long-term CO2 containment following injection, study finds
Deep geological storage of CO2 is safe. That could well be the main summary of an extensive report published by the UK Government last week. The UK Climate Change Committee…
Three small countries with little gas left
The daily news in the E&P sector is obviously focused on success stories. New finds in the East Med, the first shipment of LNG from Mozambique or another oil discovery…
Islands by night or…
In an article we recently published, Olav Walderhaug from Equinor shared his thoughts on the possible presence of a deeply buried gas source rock in the North Sea. The line…
Recognising Key Stratigraphic Markers During Drilling – The Balder Tuff
The Eocene Balder Tuff is an important and widespread stratigraphic marker in the North Sea. For most wells drilled in the area, it sits in the overburden, far away from…
An Onshore CCS Debacle
The owners of the Petra Nova CO2 plant, built at a Coal Power Station in Texas, went for it. Rather than constructing a 60 Mwe facility according to the first…
Abandoning a well with a CCS mindset
“The geoscience behind well abandonments is getting more challenging when we want to accommodate requirements for potential CCS projects in the area,” said Scott Liebnitz during last week’s Aberdeen Energy…
The Prospective Foresets Situated Below a Polar River
In August last year, Australia-based Santos decided to develop the Pikka discovery on the North Slope of Alaska. It was not Santos that discovered the field, which contains almost 400…