Salt for geothermal energy
You would not notice when driving across the flat rural landscape of the north of the Netherlands, but in a few places major salt domes almost reach the surface. Within…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Small gas fields to be developed for Europe
Back in the early 2000’s, when I had just embarked on my working life, I remember that someone told me that fields the size of 1 Bcm were now being…
Is there more in the basement?
What if the Rolvsnes Extended Well Test, which is currently being performed by Lundin on the Utsira High, goes well and reports good production figures? Will there be an increased…
Drilling success at Johan Castberg
It’s been silent in the Barents Sea for a while, but Equinor and partners have now announced another oil discovery. It is a near field find, so far from frontier…
CeraPhi Energy awarded first of its kind offshore geothermal study
Deep geothermal delivery specialist CeraPhi Energy has been awarded the first of its kind geothermal study to undertake repurposing of offshore oil and gas wells using its proprietary advanced closed…
The faster the better
The North Sea Brent province is – or better, was – awash with oil, but gas has always been a critical fuel too because of its use to power the…
ConocoPhillips keeps exploring the Cretaceous play in the Norwegian Sea
According to NPD Factpages, the Jurassic Victoria discovery in the Norwegian Sea is unlikely to be taken in production. But what if a gas accumulation in the Cretaceous overburden of…
Drilling into subsurface data continues to be a matter of stuck pipe
Do you want to do a local geological reconnaissance for your project through looking at a previously drilled well onshore UK? Be prepared to enter into a long email conversation…
A digital grain size card
“I was first introduced to the CoreDNA methodology a few years ago when the ‘Wombat’ machine was installed at Stratum’s facility in Sandnes,” says John Paul Cummings who joined recently…
Finalists for Exploration Innovation Prize 2022 announced
At the upcoming NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries Conference, taking place June 8 & 9 in Oslo next month, you will be able to hear the latest about the three…
Bokje and Anteater prospects targeted by Dana in Dutch sector
In 1971, NAM drilled a dry exploration well (F03-02) just 500 m away from where Dana is currently drilling F03-09 in licence F03C. It seems unlikely that the target of…
Will there be another oil discovery with the latest geothermal project in Germany?
In 2003, a geothermal exploration well was drilled near the village of Römerberg in the south of Germany. Situated in the north-south trending Upper Rhine Graben, with up to 4…