The potato fields of the deep sea
They are known as polymetallic nodules, manganese nodules or simply manganese tubers. The names give you an idea of the shape and metal content. Manganese modules were first found during…
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A boost for deep sea research
“Marine mineral resources have been proven in the Norwegian Sea, including metals that may be important for electrification, and which several industrial players are working to extract,” says Rolf Birger…
Timely and crucial
A three year, 18 million NOK funded research project will build important in-demand competence regarding the environmental aspects of deep sea mining on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
The next Frontier: Metals in the Deep Sea
The conference NCS Exploration – Deep Sea Minerals is being held on October 20-21, and early bird tickets are now available.
Greater Castberg: Seismic challenges in the High North
“We are hoping for many discoveries in the Greater Castberg area in the years to come”, said Hossein Mehdi Zadeh, Principal Geophysicist at Equinor during the NCS Exploration – Recent…
Deep Sea Mining may be Imminent
Norway is in an excellent position to become a leader in the exploration for deep sea minerals. The search for deep sea minerals is strongly inspired by the energy transition…
90 per cent success rate
“For the so-called Class A wells, we have had an approximately 90 per cent success rate on our predictions”, said Øyvind Sylta, Managing Director at Migris during the NCS Exploration…
Nominate your favourite!
We seek candidates worthy of this year’s Exploration Innovation Prize. The winner will be announced during the NCS Exploration conference in May.
The importance of structured data
Barely 5% of available seismic data is utilized and geoscientists and engineers reportedly spend more than 50% of their time searching and assembling data.
How Shell is redesigning the work of explorationists
Shell’s new digital venture is experimenting with new ways for explorers to work remotely and crowd-sourcing expertise.
Finding the hard-to-find treasures
DIGEX 2021: Be sure to attend this case study presentation on how to increase your chances of finding injectite sands.
Surpassing human capabilities
A recent global machine learning competition resulted in new algorithms that can predict lithology from well logs as good as, or even better than humans.