A geologists’ paradise
The hotel kindly hosting the Aberdeen evening lectures organised by the GESGB should have looked at the programme before deciding not to man the bar last night. The talk was…
Posts by Henk Kombrink
Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin
Yesterday, Petrobras announced the discovery of hydrocarbons in the ultra-deep waters of the Potiguar Basin in Brazil. The well, named Anhangá, found hydrocarbons in turbidite reservoir sands of Albian age.…
The competitive world of coring
Until wireline logging came into swing, cutting core was the most important way to obtain reliable information about the targeted formation. With the advance of wireline logging though, the need…
Mineral resource estimates for Nordic waters expose different lines of thinking between major Norwegian institutions
A debate has recently unfolded around how much copper – and related metals – are present in Norway’s mid-oceanic ridge system, an area where mining could take place in the…
Full circle
“I was still a student in the US when the GEO EXPRO magazine was launched at the EAGE Annual Convention in Paris in 2004”, says Ingvild Ryggen Carstens. “The year…
“In this case, we’d rather find the smallest prospect”
In the continued discussion around the poor state of exploration drilling in the UK versus all those wells that are being drilled in Norwegian waters, it is so easy to…
A puncture in a geothermal seal
More than fifteen years ago, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) was one of the first institutions in the Netherlands to come up with the idea to warm their premises…
“In 10 years, nobody would risk installing a subsea well without fibre optic sensing”
It is corrosion resistant, has a long lifetime, no electronics are required downhole, and the “cable” is only a quarter of a millimeter thick. Fibre optic sensing technology has a…
Hydrocarbon shows don’t necessarily mean a significant discovery
“MCF Energy Announces Significant Gas Discovery in Austria“, is the headline of a press release issued a few days ago by Canadian player MCF Energy. That sounds like exciting news…
Deciphering the wealth of data that come from fibre optic sensing
It is corrosion resistant, has a long lifetime, no electronics are required downhole, and the “cable” is only a quarter of a millimeter thick. Fibre optic sensing technology has a…
Wind and solar energy – temporarily stored in a salt cavern
One of the major challenges for the energy transition is the storage of excess energy that can be used at times when the wind does not blow or the sun…
A dissolvable tool
Andrew Garioch from Well-SENSE talks us through the use of fibre-optic technology for well intervention work