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…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
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…
Is it only the windfall tax to blame?
The recently imposed windfall tax by the UK Government has made many oil and gas players decide to postpone, cancel or reroute investments elsewhere. For instance, Total UK announced that…
The production chemistry challenges of geothermal energy
“The geothermal industry requires a much tighter control on scale formation than the oil and gas industry”, said Peter Wilkie from Roemex in a talk delivered during SPE’s online Geothermal…
Cutting data – please handle with care!
“It’s not precise at all, so please handle with care”, is one of the first things Anita Hansen tells me when we meet on Teams. We spoke about working with…
Mapping a fault using induced seismic events
Twenty years ago, Australia saw the start of a big geothermal project in deeply buried basement rocks. Situated in the Cooper Basin, the project included several phases of production testing…
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…
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…