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Is carbon capture and storage really a fantasy?

August 23, 2024

In July, the Pulitzer Center published an article entitled “Documents, Whistleblowers, and Public Comments Are Clear: Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution”. The authors state that…

“A poor site that fails to meet the criteria for safe subsurface storage”

Henk Kombrink

July 17, 2024

Onshore seismic is always more of a challenge to interpret than marine seismic data, and the seismic lines from the area around Cousland to the southeast of Edinburgh that Malcolm…

Another pressure plot without values

Henk Kombrink

June 3, 2024

It is the third time in a matter of a few months that a pressure plot was shown during a carbon storage presentation without values on the vertical axis –…

Producing shale gas through the injection of CO2

Henk Kombrink

May 15, 2024

If the people living in New York’s Southern Tier thought that shale gas production is not going happen in their backyard because of the ban on using water for fracking,…

Are we moving into the age of the pore space paradox?

Henk Kombrink

May 1, 2024

Whilst the people at E3 Lithium in Canada will no doubt support the road to Net Zero, they were not very pleased to see the company Enhance receiving a permit…

A geologists’ paradise

Henk Kombrink

April 11, 2024

The hotel kindly hosting the Aberdeen evening lectures organised by the GESGB should have looked at the programme before deciding not to man the bar last night. The talk was…

Wind and solar energy – temporarily stored in a salt cavern

Henk Kombrink

March 19, 2024

One of the major challenges for the energy transition is the storage of excess energy that can be used at times when the wind does not blow or the sun…

The race for pressure space

Henk Kombrink

March 7, 2024

Another pressure plot without values on the Y-axis! That’s what I thought when watching Eirik Jenssen’s presentation at the Dig X Conference in Oslo yesterday. Eirik works as a Reservoir…

“It is important to embrace what matters in other subsurface realms”

Rodney Garrard

January 23, 2024

“Having worked in oil and gas for years, I was convinced I knew how to drill a well”, Rodney Garrard says. “Then I moved to Switzerland to join NAGRA, the…

A room full of the best intentions

Henk Kombrink

December 18, 2023

London, Thursday 14 December, GESGB CCS Symposium. I must admit that I’m getting a bit tired of the ongoing CO2 storage discussions. Why? Because I feel that we keep on…

“I think it is going to be mission impossible”

Henk Kombrink

December 7, 2023

“The key challenge when it comes to storing CO2 is containment”, says Raffik Lazar, CEO of Dubai-based GeomodL International. “And the only element I can trust in the containment scenario…

Carbon storage in Leman – how feasible is that?

Henk Kombrink

October 12, 2023

The first thing that probably springs to mind when thinking about CO2 injection into the Leman gas field in the UK Southern North Sea is the high number of wells…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective