Working in oil and gas requires resilience
“If the oil price drops even further, it’s game over for the North Sea”, said a colleague in September 2014 when the big oil price tumble had just begun. I…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Shallow clastic targets and electro-magnetic surveys – a good match
“The most interesting test for our technology is the upcoming drilling campaign near the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea”, said Martin Hansen, Daniel Baltar and Friedrich Roth from EMGS…
Why Taiwan is looking at geothermal energy with a lot of interest
“Taiwan’s geothermal heat gradient, ranging from 48 to 60 degrees per kilometre, is a clear testament to the island’s volcanic origin. This natural advantage has sparked significant interest in geothermal…
The forgotten value of (seismic) tapes
“I’m probably the only tape machine specialist left in northwest Europe”, says Egil Simones from ET Works when we meet at the EAGE Conference in Oslo this week. Egil is…
Natural gas, playing chicken on the energy transition road
“In the West, many people are of the impression that a radical shift from oil and gas (red meat) to a rapid and complete phase-out of hydrocarbons (vegan) is the…
Playing with seismic processing as a parameter during inversion
“I had the luck of seeing how the sausage was made”, says Bill Shea at the start of our conversation, “and it made me feel uncomfortable.” Bill is the CEO…
Hydrogen storage in a depleted gas reservoir – how easy is that?
“When Rough was under natural gas production and later as a gas storage facility, the geology was not considered to be particularly important ”, said Katharine Howell from Exceed during…
Another pressure plot without values
It is the third time in a matter of a few months that a pressure plot was shown during a carbon storage presentation without values on the vertical axis –…
Four decades of rocks
“From when I was in primary school, I wanted to become a geologist”, says Amanda Barlow when I speak to her whilst she sits in her kitchen on the Gold…
The Belgians are coming
Belgium has not been particularly lucky when the North Sea was divided up into sectors belonging to the nations surrounding its coast. No oil or gas has ever been found…
Brushing up on your geothermal vocabulary
It must have been a major exercise to write the paper that was published recently by authors Maryam Khodayar and Sveinbjörn Björnsson in the Open Journal of Geology. I know…
This is what David Sturt said in 2018: “Plenty of hydrocarbon potential off Namibia”
David Sturt, Chief Operating Officer of Azinam Limited, a Namibia-focused exploration company, spoke at Africa Oil Week in Cape Town in November 2018. A month before that, we published this…