Henk Kombrink, Author at GeoExpro

Posts by Henk Kombrink

The new UK National Data Repository: another milestone in accessing subsurface data

August 26, 2021

In 2015, when I carried out a small project that involved looking at composite logs from UKCS wells, I visited the OGA office near the Aberdeen railway station and spent…

The basin that lacked a final push

Henk Kombrink

August 25, 2021

As part of a PhD project carried out at Aberdeen University, Laura-Jane Fyfe recently published a paper in Petroleum Geoscience where she and her co-authors assess the prospectivity of the…

Drilling for science in a Norwegian frontier area

Henk Kombrink

August 24, 2021

On the 11th of August, drill ship JOIDES Resolution set sail from the port of Reykjavik. During the two-month cruise this autumn, the crew hopes to drill at nine locations…

Liatårnet: a heavy or lightweight?

Henk Kombrink

August 23, 2021

“How heavy is the oil?” That will probably be the most important question operator Aker BP and partner Lotos E&P Norway (9.74%) will want to be answered with the current…

Danish CO2 storage consortium aims high

Henk Kombrink

August 20, 2021

This week, Wintershall Dea announced that it expects to start a pilot project injecting CO2 into a depleted oil field in the Danish sector by the end of next year…

Equinor continues appraising the Cretaceous play

Henk Kombrink

August 19, 2021

Field outlines can sometimes be slightly misleading in the sense that a big polygon on a map can leave the impression that a field is huge, whilst in reality the…

Hydrocarbon exploration in Greenland to stop

Henk Kombrink

August 18, 2021

Late June, the Greenland Government announced that it will cease issuing new petroleum exploration licences, based on economic calculations as well as the role hydrocarbons play in causing climate change.…

Shell drills for geothermal energy in the Netherlands

Henk Kombrink

August 17, 2021

Drilling for geothermal energy is not new in the Netherlands, but most projects so far were completed to produce energy for greenhouse heating. What is new in the case of…

The search for Paleocene oil

Henk Kombrink

August 16, 2021

An interesting “trend” is unfolding in the Norwegian Southern North Sea, where DNO and partner Aker BP (15%) spudded well 2/5-15 last week. In contrast to the main target of…

A summer subsurface summary

Henk Kombrink

August 13, 2021

As summer gradually draws to a close, people get back to work and schools are about to re-open, it’s time to present a bit of a summary of what happened…

First oil from Norwegian basement reservoir

Henk Kombrink

August 12, 2021

With an oil column of around 50 m in weathered and fractured granitic basement, the Rolvsnes production test Lundin Energy now embarked on through the horizontal section drilled in well…

Ithaca Energy drills second UKCS exploration well of 2021

Henk Kombrink

August 11, 2021

Originally planned to be drilled last year, well 22/01b-12, operated by Ithaca Energy and partnered by Spirit (40%), must probably be seen as an example of a Covid-related deferral. Spudded…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Posts by Henk Kombrink

The new UK National Data Repository: another milestone in accessing subsurface data

The basin that lacked a final push

Drilling for science in a Norwegian frontier area

Liatårnet: a heavy or lightweight?

Danish CO2 storage consortium aims high

Equinor continues appraising the Cretaceous play

Hydrocarbon exploration in Greenland to stop

Shell drills for geothermal energy in the Netherlands

The search for Paleocene oil

A summer subsurface summary

First oil from Norwegian basement reservoir

Ithaca Energy drills second UKCS exploration well of 2021

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