A personal Petex
When I attended Petex for the first time, it must have been around 2010, I took it all for granted: the big booths, the enormous exhibition floor, the large number…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
A 1 % error margin is not acceptable anymore
It is something that many geoscientists may not think about daily, but there is a whole community in the upstream oil and gas sector that is working to make sure…
A leak – but what next?
The E&E News website, part of Politico, recently published the news that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a violation notice to the operator of the Decatur CCS project…
The exploration legacy of Bernard Looney
In a speech delivered to people at Stanford University in March 2002, then bp chief executive Lord John Browne declared that his company needed to reinvent the energy business. “We…
A huff-and-puff reservoir
“I would not be in this business if we would not think we can produce competitively priced energy”, said Mike Eros from Sage Geosystems during his talk in the Geothermal…
AOW moving out of Cape Town is the talk of the town
It is the first time for me to attend the Africa Oil Week Conference in Cape Town. And it will also be my last. For the time being at least.…
Never say no
“I was born disciplined”, says Aluka at the start of the interview. “With my parents both being academics, it was no surprise that I wanted to learn”, she continues, “but…
Your “catch of the day” causes plumes and marine devastation at a much larger scale than any deep-sea mining activity will cause anytime soon
In the fourteenth century, British fishermen from Essex sent a petition to King Edward III from England. They wanted him to ban a new type of fishing gear that some…
The time of deep resistivity
Times are gone that deep resistivity tools are only being used for geo-steering. The inverted data help build geomodels, help estimate net pay thickness away from well data and see…
The geoscience of decommissioning
“ Let’s not try to sugarcoat it, it wasn’t always easy”, she continues. “The pandemic unfolded, and taking care of homeschooling, a full-time job and completing the university modules on…
Drilling deeper than the primary target – the next frontier?
The idea for this story was born when I saw a LinkedIn post from Mike Smith in the USA in which he wrote about a well in the Gulf of…
What it takes to organize a conference
“As a geoscientist, it is very rewarding and useful to help shape a conference like IMAGE”, says Daniel Sutton when we catch up at the fringe of the exhibition floor.…