There’s still plenty of fizz in FANTA
Systematic exploration for smaller volumes can still pay off. A perfect example of this is the perseverance with which Equinor and partners DNO, Idemitsu, Neptune, Petoro, Vår Energi and Wellesley keep…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Number of companies and awards in 2021 APA round lowest in eight years
In NPD’s press release announcing the APA 2021 awards, there is an interesting remark: “This year’s awards show that there is still great diversity among the players,…” The key in…
PGS awarded contracts in both UK and Norway to better image carbon stores
In separate press releases, PGS announced the acquisition of seismic surveys in both the UK and Norwegian sectors this year. Yesterday, the company announced the award of the Endurance seismic…
Denmark to see large geothermal project developed
As announced yesterday, Innargi – a company founded by Danish conglomerate A.P. Møller Holding in 2017 – will develop a large geothermal energy project in the Danish city of Aarhus…
No Johan Sverdrup in the Norwegian Sea for Lundin
As announced by the NPD this morning, Lundin and partners Spirit (20%; soon to be Sval Energy) and Petoro (20%) have drilled a dry well on the Frøya High in…
Glengorm may still be viable as a tie-back option
When the results of the Glengorm discovery well (22/21c-13) came in early 2019, partner Total announced that the accumulation could hold 250 MMboe recoverable. Following the completion of two appraisal…
The search for oil in an abandoned gas field
Aker BP has started drilling an interesting well (25/2-23A) in PL873, where Equinor (40%) and Lotos (20%) are partners. The first hole will be drilled in the Eocene Frigg sandstone…
ONE-Dyas appraises IJssel find
Early 2021, ONE-Dyas completed a successful exploration well (F06-07) in the northern Dutch offshore, just south of the Neptune-operated F03-FB field. In contrast to most wells drilled in the Dutch…
Significant downward revision of Mariner reserves
Equinor doesn’t seem to have much luck on the UK Continental Shelf. A series of dry holes in pursuit of a Johan Sverdrup equivalent – of which the Tiger Lilly…
Big drop in development drilling across UKCS
The number of exploration wells drilled in a basin can be used as an indicator to predict short to mid-term levels of confidence, but the number of development wells also…
A second Johan Sverdrup?
A week ago, Lundin Energy and partners Spirit (20%; soon to be Sval Energy) and Petoro (20%) spudded well 6306/9-1 in PL886, following a delay of more than a year.…
Output from Groningen may be almost twice as high as expected this year
In September last year, the Dutch government expected output from the giant Groningen field to be 3.9 Bcm in the current gas year. However, this week the minister announced an…