Karst: creating and destroying carbonate reservoirs
Israel Poloni and Niels Rameil from Lundin gave a short overview and update of the Paleozoic carbonate plays and reservoirs on the NCS at the Carbonate Plays Force seminar. Poloni…
Posts by Liesbeth Breesch
Zechstein play on the NCS: is it worth exploring?
The Southern Zechtstein Basin produces a lot of hydrocarbons from gas field in the Netherlands, UK and Poland. The Northern Basin is in comparison underexplored but not very successful up…
NCS: Another Cretaceous Gas Discovery
Arild Kjeldstad of Wintershall showed the results of the Balderbrå well 6604/5-1, a deepwater gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea to the audience at NPF’s Exploration Revived Conference in Sola.…
Neptune goes ahead with Seagull
Neptune Energy announced that Neptune and its joint venture partners BP and Japex have agreed on the final investment decision for the Seagull oil project. Seagull is a high pressure,…
Two dry holes near Hod field
The NPD announced that operator Aker BP has concluded drilling appraisal well 2/11-12S and wildcat 2/11-12A in PL 033. The wells were drilled 1,5km southwest of the Hod field in…
Private equity looking to sell
Many small oil and gas exploration companies on the UKCS and NCS are funded by private equity money and at some point, they want to sell again or list the…
Rungne: a nice try
Well 30/6-30 (read also “Faroe with technical discovery”) was drilled in PL 825 in the Northern Norwegian North Sea north of the Oseberg field. Location PL 825 and well 30/6-30…
Maria still shut-in
In an interview with Sysla, Mario Mehren CEO Wintershall, confesses that he is disappointed how the Maria field has performed so far and that there is uncertainty when it will…
PDO for Luno II
The Solveig oil discovery in PL359, is located 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and will be developed via a subsea tie-back to the Edvard Grieg platform, involving…
Low expectations for Korpfjell Deep
At Exploration Revived Leif Bjørnar Henriksen from Equinor presented the results of the Korpfjell well 7435/12-1, which was the first well in the Barents Sea southeast. Up front the industry…
A discovery from the underworld
Hades/Iris was the largest discovery of 2018 off the coast of Mid Norway with potentially 245MMboe gas and condensate (read also “500MMboe in 2018”). Hades contains gas and condensate in…
UK’s National Data Repository launched
The new UK National Data Depository (NDR) online platform (https://ndr.ogauthority.co.uk/) is freely available to everyone. The 130 terabytes of released data consist of well, geophysical, field and infrastructure data covering…