Kraken – overcoming offshore heavy oil field challenges
Heavy oil developments are not straightforward. “This also applies to the Kraken development in Quad 9 of the UK Northern North Sea,” as reservoir engineer Jan Manoharan from Enquest says.…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Poland’s long-term gas strategy pays off
Russia may have cut gas supplies to Poland last week, but the country started a diversification process years ago. These decisions are about to pay off. For Poland, but not…
Maasdijk geothermal project can’t start soon enough
The first geothermal wells in the Netherlands were drilled in the area called “Westland” where a large cluster of greenhouses is located. About twenty years ago, it was the desire…
Exploration success for Neptune at Hamlet
Neptune Energy and its partners Petoro (30%), Wintershall Dea (28%) and OKEA (12%) today announced the discovery of oil and gas at the Hamlet exploration wells (35/9-16S and 35/9-16A in…
PGS awarded 4D GeoStreamer monitoring surveys
Yesterday, PGS announced the award of 4D GeoStreamer monitoring surveys over the Visund field in the North Sea and the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. Further, the company was…
Adding barrels to Johan Castberg
It’s been a few months since the previous Barents Sea exploration well was drilled; this was in Oktober 2021 when Vår Energi completed 7122/6-3S on the Rødhette prospect near the…
How the underburden determines what happens in the overburden
Is it a surprise that the G4 gas leak incident in 2012 happened in a well on the Elgin field and not the nearby Franklin/West Franklin fields? Elgin, Franklin and…
Will Cambozola be a new North Sea play opener?
The Norwegian Sea is known for its potential in the Cretaceous, with the Egyptian Vulture discovery being the most recent positive drilling result. Further south, the Cretaceous is now getting…
Dutch flagship CCS project at risk due to nitrogen
“It seems like we are all in primary school,” says Remco de Boer in his StudioEnergy podcast interview with Public Affairs Manager of the Porthos CCS project Mark Driessen. De…
Serica aims to spud North Eigg exploration well in Q3 this year
The start of production from the Columbus development and an additional well coming on stream at the Rhum gas field have played out well for Serica, a UK North Sea…
Germany in favour of cross-border gas development
“We can’t afford demanding a continuous supply of gas from the Netherlands, whilst at the same time refusing to produce it ourselves,” said the economy secretary Bernd Althusmann in a…
Aker BP aims deep with well 35/4-3
Potentially reaching a depth of around 5,000 metres, well 35/4-3 that was spudded by Aker BP and partners Wellesley (40%) and Petoro (20%) early April is testing the Laushornet prospect…