Drilling wells pays off
On the first of April, the NPD finally announced the results of the last exploration well that was spudded in 2021; 25/2-23S targeting the Grefsenkollen prospect beneath the Øst Frigg…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Could there be something useful in report “Final_final_v3”?
The most important way of reporting these days seems to be PowerPoints or exported PDF’s. These documents, along with other legacy material, tend to be hidden away in project folders…
Digitalisation key to ensure continued production from mature fields
“70% of global oil production is taking place from mature fields,” said Babak Moradi from Three60Energy at the start of his talk on Day 2 of the annual DigEx conference…
DIGEX Day 1 – from “Never” to “Next year”
“Once the project is finished, we go on holiday and you can think of ways to integrate the data into your exploration workflows.” This is what Malgorzata Kusak said to…
Kveikje a rolling success
Today, Longboat Energy issued a press release stating that the Kveikje well (35/10-8S) has resulted in the discovery of between 28 and 48 MMboe of oil resources in an Eocene…
Johan Sverdrup – a lot of oil and a lot of data
Johan Sverdrup is a big field that produces a lot of oil. Many people know that. But it is also a field that produces a lot of data, which is…
The spectacular overburden of the Cambo field
A 546 km2 3D seismic reflection survey was acquired in 2012 to better map the Cambo discovery and plan subsequent drilling. With the news this week that Shell and Siccar…
Harbour kicks off development drilling at Laverda
When looking at a map that shows the surface location of the 28/09a-C9 well that was spudded by Harbour Energy this month, it looks like it is drilling a prospect…
A promising prospect in UK waters: Isolde
In a report published by Offshore Energies UK yesterday, the organisation representing the integrated offshore energy industry states that for the first time gas imports from Norway have exceeded domestic…
Lancaster will produce longer
In a press release issued by Hurricane on Friday last week, the company announced that it has extended the lease of Bluewater’s Aoka Mizu FPSO which is currently stationed at…
Teaching the machine to identify prospects – as easy as it sounds?
Let’s start this story with a philosophical question: “Isn’t there a contradiction in using human interpretation to ground-truth a model if the purpose of the exercise is to identify leads…
Confidence to explore in mature basins requires a long-term vision
Observing events unfold in the upstream UK sector over the past year has been quite interesting. As the COP26 climate conference in November last year approached, the public call to…