How cutting data help decode the subsurface
“De-risking future targets should be done through the integration of all sources of information at hand. The enormous dataset now available via the Released Wells Initiative helps us a lot,”…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Could NEO consider a venture into exploration?
Multiple factors are pointing towards a greater likelihood of new North Sea entrant NEO to become more serious about exploration on the UK Continental Shelf. In a week when UK…
Appraising and exploring the offshore extension of the Zandvoort Ridge
Kistos has shown to be an active player on the Dutch Continental Shelf thus far. Last year, it further appraised and developed the Q10-A field, whereby the Cretaceous oil accumulation…
Shell explores deep potential of Ormen Lange
It does not happen very often that Shell drills an exploration well in Norwegian waters. And even though the well name does sound more like a development hole, 6305/5-C-3 H…
How long could Europe survive on Norwegian gas alone?
When the NPD issued their latest resources inventory last week, one of the headlines was that proven resources had increased by 893 MMboe compared to last year’s accounts. And, 65%…
Reabold Resources aims to drill new production well in West Newton
In what is claimed to be the biggest onshore UK find after the discovery of Wytch Farm, a potentially significant volume of oil (146 MMbo in place) and gas (6…
Hamburg is hot
With an estimated power output of 10 MW – which could supply 5,000 houses with heat – the city of Hamburg in northern Germany hopes to integrate geothermal energy with…
The well that targeted a turbidite but found an intrusion instead
Well 205/10-5a was spudded in 1997 by Chevron in the UK Faroe-Shetland Basin, targeting what looked like a Paleocene turbiditic sandstone on the Flett High. Seismic data indeed suggested a…
ONE-Dyas spuds second appraisal well at IJssel
Either volumes are larger than initially expected or drilling wells in this fairly shallow find is just very affordable, ONE-Dyas is now in the process of drilling a second appraisal…
Oil is increasingly critical for production of batteries
Just as you were about to think that batteries represent the NEW way of energy use versus fossil fuels standing for the OLD way, then continue reading. Even if no…
A plug and abandonment of Britain’s shale gas adventure
When I was a young geologist at the Geological Survey in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in spring 2010, a representative from Realm Energy rocked up at the office one day. He…
Are there some diamonds to be found in diatomite?
With oil prices reaching levels not seen since the 2014 crash, there is no doubt that at some point in time attention will again shift towards those plays that were…