What went wrong in Leeuwarden?
Last year, a geothermal well was drilled near the city of Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands. The target of the borehole was the Rotliegend of the Friesland Platform,…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
The Google maps of seismic analysis
In the same way as Google maps has radically changed the way how road navigation works, researchers in Equinor have developed a methodology to enable the analysis of seismic data…
An Eocene target in Jurassic heartlands
Recent discoveries in the north of Troll area have had either the Middle Jurassic Brent or the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord sandstones as the main target. Attend the NCS Exploration –…
The truth is in large data sets
“I must admit that a quick search on the internet did not immediately result in finding a published dataset to show that total organic carbon decreases with depth through the…
Should the Eden geothermal project have been drilled later?
As was announced by the Eden Geothermal project in the southwest of England yesterday, injection tests into fractured basement rocks have resulted in a seismic event of 1.7 magnitude at…
The ten worst UK field developments
Coming up with the ten worst field developments across the UK Continental Shelf requires some experience and knowledge about the history of the basin. In a well-illustrated video, which can…
Jaws bites the dust
Shell and partner Capricorn (50%) have completed well 22/12d-13 targeting the Jaws prospect to the southeast of Nelson in P2380. Anticipated to hold up to 30 MMboe, a 31 m…
Who could be interested in buying Shell’s gas assets in the UK North Sea?
Last month, Reuters published an exclusive in which it reported that Shell intends to sell some key UK Southern North Sea gas assets. The assets are the Clipper hub as…
Exploration 2022 = Frontier exploration
Given the current price environment and concerns about security of supply, one of the things Europe seems to increasingly agree on is the fact that the energy mix should be…
Drawing grains from cutting samples to develop machine learning algorithms
Do you know what junior geologist Wouter Bell Gravendeel is doing in the image shown above? Together with his fellow colleagues Jostein Larsen Hesthammer and Jahn Brusdal Eriksen, he is…
From Brabant to Barents
When looking at the map below and realising that only 50 years ago hardly any wells were drilled across NW European shelves, the conclusion is justified that a lot more…
“The European gas market is broken”
That concludes Nikos Tsafos in a tweet earlier this morning when comparing gas and oil prices. Yes, oil is now north of $100 per barrel, but in oil equivalent terms…