Making a case for domestic oil and gas production
Oil and gas currently provide 76% of the total energy consumed in the UK. As the energy transition progresses, this will decline, but even in the most aggressive demand reduction…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
In the heart of the global economy
The Aramco compound – where most of the work is done to keep the Saudi oil machine turning – is still situated in the exact same area where the story…
“The best recipe for a business adventure to succeed is not to have a plan B”
Would you re-mortgage your house to invest in an oilfield development because you simply believe in it? Yes, good on you. Would you still do it when a major says…
Producing shale gas through the injection of CO2
If the people living in New York’s Southern Tier thought that shale gas production is not going happen in their backyard because of the ban on using water for fracking,…
Acquiring seismic data for oil exploration in 1980, but using it to find hydrogen now
“A great talk!” I looked at the notes I took during Brian Evans’ talk at the AAPG ICE Conference in Madrid in November last year. It was a great talk…
TotalEnergies to drill an infill well on Culzean less than 2 years after OBN acquisition
One of the most important roles of conference chairs is to build a programme that ensures people want to stay until the bitter end of the last day. At Seismic…
Are we moving into the age of the pore space paradox?
Whilst the people at E3 Lithium in Canada will no doubt support the road to Net Zero, they were not very pleased to see the company Enhance receiving a permit…
The state of global gas exploration
“If we look back at the years before the pandemic and the Ukraine invasion, the only countries where we saw a consistent search for gas were the countries around the…
Getting close to Mopane
For obvious reasons, there has been a lot of media coverage today on the test results of the Mopane-1X well in Namibian waters. The well flowed at 14 kboepd at…
The deepest closed-loop borehole drilled in the UK
This is not the first time I write this, but I keep on saying it. If there is any sector in the geothermal drilling space that is active in the…
Salt and Grit
“My fascination with geology started with asking myself a question”, says Clara Rodríguez Rondón. “I grew up in Venezuela, in a town called San Juan de Los Morros, in a…
Are National Oil Companies the answer to addressing security of supply concerns across the North Sea?
“Many countries in the West have deliberately moved from being carnivores to vegans if that analogy can be used for the energy system”, someone recently told me at a conference.…