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…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
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…
Another Utsira High discovery seeing first oil soon
In times when potential field developments are being heavily discussed in the light of climate concerns (Cambo field, UK), environmental issues (Ternaard, Netherlands) or are even abandoned by oil companies…
Only traces of oil found in the latest Liatårnet appraisal well
In a press release issued by the NPD yesterday, it was announced that the 25/2-22S appraisal well on Liatårnet only proved traces of oil in the Miocene Skade Formation interval,…
Neptune kicks off drilling Dugong Tail
The Dugong Tail prospect can be seen as another compartment in the NE-SW trending fault block – or relay ramp between the Marulk Basin in the NW and the Tampen…
Ternaard – one of the last “onshore” discoveries that may be developed
The Dutch government is considering to approve NAM’s request to produce gas from the Ternaard gas field, which is situated below one of the most important nature reserves in the…
Denmark did not close the door for exploration
“Denmark set to end all new oil and gas exploration” or “Spain’s move to ban new exploration awards follows a December move by Denmark to ban new exploration (…).” These…
Pushing the boundaries of geothermal sweet spots
Last week, Shell in partnership with company D4 announced the award of a licence for geothermal exploration in the west of the Netherlands – named “Rijnland”. It occupies a large…
Lundin explores and appraises with Lille Prinsen drilling campaign
Lundin and partners are steadily continuing an extensive 2021 nine-well drilling campaign and other activities in the Greater Edvard Grieg area. Amongst those were the near-Solveig well 16/4-13S to explore…