An oil appraisal campaign at the first Dutch offshore gas discovery
The Q10-A field is a particular accumulation in multiple ways. Firstly, it is the first gas find in Dutch waters, with discovery well Q10-2 drilled in 1962 by NAM. Secondly,…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Lille Prinsen oil find will be closely watched by UK Mid North Sea High operators
Operator Lundin targeted multiple reservoirs with the now completed Lille Prinsen 16/1-34S&A drilling campaign. Before the main target – the Zechstein – was drilled by well 16/1-34A, the shallower Paleocene…
The big crew change – but where does the new crew come from?
The last talk of the day. Sometimes it can be hard to concentrate when the tenth speaker flicks through the slides. But Prof Alejandro Escalana’s talk did the contrary, it…
It’s not Maria’s fault
It’s not a secret that the Wintershall Dea operated Maria field in the Norwegian Sea has underperformed. During a presentation at the Exploration Revived Conference yesterday, Vedad Hadziavdic – project…
Exploration revived – and conferencing revived!
200 attendees will gather in Stavanger and Oslo over the next two days to listen to talks from all the key players operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf during the…
Exploration drilling may become a little bit more expensive in Norway
As the website Politico mentioned last week, the main parties in Norway all support the oil and gas sector, with only the Greens challenging the status quo. The Greens are…
Deep Sea Minerals conference: Call for Posters
The programme for the upcoming Deep Sea Minerals Conference (20-21 Oct) is finalised, but there is still opportunity to present your work in the form of a poster presentation. Posters…
Lancaster reaches 10 MMbo production milestone
Whilst Hurricane Energy’s share price is still very much depressed following the reserves and resources write-off earlier this year – north of 40 GBX in 2019-2020 versus around 2 GBX…
Harbour close to finalising Talbot appraisal well
Back in 1965, Phillips Petroleum was awarded licence P079 in Quadrant 30 during the second UKCS Licensing Round. Eyes were mostly on Mesozoic structures along the Josephine Ridge, but the…
A North Sea CCS market in the making
In a press release issued yesterday, Shell NL, TotalEnergies, EBN and Gasunie have agreed on a collaboration to realise another CO2 capture, transport and storage project in the Dutch sector.…
Bergknapp – a Norwegian Sea success story
As announced yesterday, operator Wintershall and partners DNO (30%) and Spirit Energy (30%) concluded drilling appraisal well 6406/3-10A on the Bergknapp discovery in the Norwegian Sea – about 8 kilometres…
UK most susceptible to gas crunch
As Bloomberg Energy expert Javier Blas showed on Twitter last week, both the UK and Dutch gas benchmarks closed at all-time highs. Combined with the fact that due to the…