Liesbeth Breesch, Author at GeoExpro

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 presented the Zechstein play in the North Sea (Read also…

Liesbeth Breesch

April 12, 2019

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 to now with only 2 discoveries out of 112 penetrations.…

Liesbeth Breesch

April 5, 2019

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. The Balderbrå discovery is located in PL 894 on the…

Liesbeth Breesch

April 1, 2019

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, high temperature development located in the Central North Sea on…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 29, 2019

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 the southern Norwegian North Sea. Location of the Hod deep…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 28, 2019

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 company on the stock exchange. Seacrest Capital now wants to…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 28, 2019

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 (Map Faroe) The target of the well was the Oseberg…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 28, 2019

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 start up again. Wintershall started production from the Maria oil field on…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 27, 2019

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 five development wells with gross peak production of 30 Mboepd…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 27, 2019

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 was hoping for a giant discovery (“Arctic hot spot to…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 26, 2019

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 the Cretaceous intra Lange Formation, Breiflabb member. The estimated resources…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 25, 2019

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 more than 12500 wellbores, 5000 seismic surveys and 3000 pipelines.…

Liesbeth Breesch

March 25, 2019

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Posts by Liesbeth Breesch

Karst: creating and destroying carbonate reservoirs

Zechstein play on the NCS: is it worth exploring?

NCS: Another Cretaceous Gas Discovery

Neptune goes ahead with Seagull

Two dry holes near Hod field

Private equity looking to sell

Rungne: a nice try

Maria still shut-in

PDO for Luno II

Low expectations for Korpfjell Deep

A discovery from the underworld

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