Finding ammonites – through coring
From 1967 to 1969, the so-called Mochras borehole was drilled on the coast of West Wales. This well penetrated a biostratigraphically complete succession of 1300 m of Lower Jurassic marine…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Equinor proves potential of Upper Cretaceous play east of Maria field
Well 6407/1-8S was spudded in September with the primary target being reservoirs of the Middle Jurassic Garn and Ile Formations of the Apollonia prospect. Partners in the well are Lime…
Equinor to test reservoir potential updip of Agip gas discovery in Barents Sea
On November 3rd, Equinor spudded well 7018/5-1 (Spissa) in the SW Barents Sea in a search for hydrocarbons in the Troms Finnmark Fault complex. This is the second exploration well…
Shallow gas continues to prove commercial – A Friday North Sea wrap up
Petrogas E&P Netherlands to drill more wells in shallow gas fields With the rig contract being announced this week, this three-well programme is testament to the remaining potential of the…
New Open Door Procedure on Greenland’s West coast
Since the last exploration drillings some years back, the Government of Greenland has been working on a new oil strategy that reduces geological uncertainty and allowing first movers a very…
Equinor targets stratigraphic Upper Jurassic trap east of Statfjord
On the last day of October, well 34/7-37S was spudded in production licence 089. Equinor is the operator at 41.5%, licence partners are Petoro (30%), Vår Energy (16.1%), Idemitsu Petroleum…
New subsidence map illustrates effect of Groningen gas production
Published jointly by the Netherlands Centre for Geodesy and Geo-informatics (NCG), SkyGeo and TU Delft, the map shows the movement of billions of measurement points across the entire country. The…
The fields that were found on John’s watch
Edited by industry gurus Graham Goffey and Jon Gluyas, this volume marks the fourth in a series of Geological Society Memoirs on UK’s oil and gas fields. It also marks…
Drilling for shale, drilling for sand – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
New platform successfully installed in Dutch offshore Last week, Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Sleipnir successfully installed a new minimum facilities platform for Dana, P11-Unity, close to the existing De Ruyter…
Fenja – drilling results prove food for thought
Neptune Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 586, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6406/12-G-1 H, which is an extension of an observation well…
Setting casing from home
Next week, the bi-annual Operations Geoscience conference takes place, organised by a team of volunteers from the industry and facilitated by the Energy Group of The Geological Society. Prior to…
Small Norwegian E&P players achieve highest returns on exploration spend
The key result of the analysis, which includes exploration activity and results from 2017 to around October 2020, is that the highest return on exploration spend is achieved by smaller…