Activity on the Danish Shelf
Hess is planning to drill the Jill exploration well in License 06/16 in the Danish North Sea during the second half of 2019 reports Upstreamonline.com. After a break in exploration…
Posts by Liesbeth Breesch
UK wildcats for 2019
Exploration activity on the UKCS reached a low in 2018. Only 7 exploration wells were drilled according to data from the OGA. Three additional wells were spudded in 2018 but…
Improving accuracy of fault interpretation
“The application of deep learning for more accurate fault delineation” is the full title of the talk which will be given by James Lowel, Research and Development Director for GeoTeric…
More exploration around Hades/Iris
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”). OMV found gas and condensate in…
Cross-border exploration
Shell, Spirit Energy and Faroe Petroleum have been awarded PL 969 (blocks 1/6 and 1/8) over the Norwegian side of the cross-border Edinburgh prospect in the recent APA licensing round.…
Self-organizing maps to understand geology
At #DIGEX2019, the digital subsurface one of the important themes is how to use machine learning applications in a G&G workflow. There is a session on day 2 (see here…
Dry well in Moray Firth
The Wick exploration well 11/24b-4 in license P2235 in the inner Moray Firth area of the UKCS is in the process of being plugged and abandoned after disappointing results. Upland…
Small gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea
Equinor has together with partners Petoro, ExxonMobil and Total discovered 6-25 million boe gas and condensate in the well 640672-9S Ragnfrid North, which lies south of the Kristin Field in…
83 APA awards- another record
The previous record holder was APA2017 with 75 new awards. Of the 83 production licences awarded in APA2018, 37 are in the North Sea, 32 in the Norwegian Sea and…
Wisting is growing
Operator OMV has increased the estimated recoverable resources from 350 million barrels in 2017 to 440 million barrels of oil in 2018. A significant effort has been made over the…
Adding uncertainty to seismic interpretation
Automated seismic interpretation is one of the better-known examples of machine learning and a whole session of #DigEx2019 in Oslo is dedicated to it (full program here). One of the…
First award for CO2 storage
Together with partners Shell and Total, Equinor takes part in the Northern Lights project that submitted an application for an exploitation permit for a subsea reservoir in September 2018. As…