Henk Kombrink, Author at GeoExpro

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How to explain the low energy output of one of the UK’s flagship geothermal projects?

March 1, 2024

In September last year, the UK Government announced a list of renewable energy projects that qualify for a minimum price guarantee for the energy delivered to the grid. Geothermal projects…

What is the longest well drilled along hole?

Henk Kombrink

February 26, 2024

Based on a post on social media, in which we asked our followers to name the well with the highest step-out ratio – the ratio between horizontal distance and vertical…

Not as straight as we sometimes think

Henk Kombrink

February 22, 2024

Of course, field observations have long shown that faults are not the perfectly straight lines we often see in schematic cross-sections. However, subsurface data do not always allow the detailed…

Oil – and increasingly gas – on steroids

Henk Kombrink

February 21, 2024

“We went from two to nineteen mudlogging units recently”, said a representative from Geolog at the IPTC Conference in Saudi Arabia this week. “It is obvious that things are picking…

A tent and a rig

Henk Kombrink

February 15, 2024

Looking out of the plane window when approaching Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s oil capital, the darkness of the desert is interrupted by star-shaped lights in places. I wondered what they were…

Monitoring a geothermal motor

Henk Kombrink

February 13, 2024

Following the drilling of successful exploration wells into the Kenyan Rift Valley in the 1970’s, the flagship Olkaria geothermal field has seen a steady development to a capacity of around…

Oil in the Dammam field overburden – lateral migration or an imperfect seal?

Henk Kombrink

February 6, 2024

Next week, I’ll be attending the IPTC Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It made me look at the local geology of the area, only then to realise that Dammam is…

What pressure data can do

Henk Kombrink

February 5, 2024

The ENE trending Rankin High is dissected by a series of sub-parallel Lower to Middle Jurassic basins, of which the Searipple Graben to the west of NW Rankin is an…

When will the first prospect be drilled that was identified and de-risked through the use of AI?

Henk Kombrink

January 31, 2024

There is a buzz around artificial intelligence (AI). With routine tasks being increasingly taken over by machines, to the point that they are better trained than the human eye, when…

Shallow geothermal energy is also thriving in the Munich area

Henk Kombrink

January 30, 2024

The Munich area in the south of Germany is situated in a genuine hot spot when it comes to geothermal energy production. Karstified Upper Jurassic carbonates have already formed an…

Why it is not a slam dunk to ramp up gas production in Bolivia

Henk Kombrink

January 29, 2024

Bolivia is still a gas-exporting country, with Brazil and Argentina being the two customers. But, with production on a long-term decline, and with Argentina now developing its own resource in…

What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?

Henk Kombrink

January 26, 2024

This week, Namibia’s petroleum commissioner Maggy Shino announced that Shell has thus far discovered 200 million barrels of recoverable oil at Graff and 300 million barrels of recoverable oil at…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Posts by Henk Kombrink

How to explain the low energy output of one of the UK’s flagship geothermal projects?

What is the longest well drilled along hole?

Not as straight as we sometimes think

Oil – and increasingly gas – on steroids

A tent and a rig

Monitoring a geothermal motor

Oil in the Dammam field overburden – lateral migration or an imperfect seal?

What pressure data can do

When will the first prospect be drilled that was identified and de-risked through the use of AI?

Shallow geothermal energy is also thriving in the Munich area

Why it is not a slam dunk to ramp up gas production in Bolivia

What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?

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