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Should we explore for oil in a completely different way?

December 15, 2021

When Per Arne Bjørkum – scientist at Equinor and emeritus professor at University of Stavanger – plotted total organic carbon contents (TOC) of 871 Upper Jurassic Draupne Formation source rock…

NPD keeps on releasing relinquishment reports

Henk Kombrink

December 14, 2021

As we reported on in July this year, the NPD started to release valuable subsurface information consolidated in relinquishment reports. Relinquishment reports often contain not only a lot of valuable…

Nelson in the spotlight

Henk Kombrink

December 13, 2021

Shell is back in the Nelson area. Not to test another Paleocene prospect, but to try and prove hydrocarbons in the Upper Jurassic pod/intra-pod area east of Nelson through drilling…

Dry well for PGNiG

Henk Kombrink

December 10, 2021

As announced by the NPD yesterday, well 6306/3-1S drilled by PGNiG and Lime Petroleum (10%) in PL937 has come in dry. It cannot be stated differently, this was a courageous…

UK 3 – Norway 2

Henk Kombrink

December 6, 2021

Against a backdrop of a (temporary) drop in drilling activity across the Norwegian Continental Shelf and a simultaneous increase in activity in the UK, the latter finds itself in the…

Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Potential in Sumatra

Tako Koning, Consultant, Calgary; Nick Cameron, GeoInsight Ltd, UK; and John Clure, Consultant, UK

December 3, 2021

Exploring in Sumatra for oil and gas in naturally fractured and weathered basement reservoirs. Sumatra, Indonesia is the sixth largest island in the world covering an area of 445,000 sq…

Brazil Offering Deepwater Blocks in 17th Offshore Licensing Round

GEO ExPro

December 3, 2021

Late in 2020 Brazil announced details of its 17th Licensing Round in which 92 blocks in the offshore Campos, Pelotas, Potiguar and Santos Basins, covering a total of 53,900 km2,…

Two neighbouring countries, two contrasting exploration strategies?

Henk Kombrink

December 2, 2021

As announced last week, the new German coalition plans include a potential ban on new exploration licences being issued in their part of the North Sea. Is this a surprise?…

Moderate and realistic

Henk Kombrink

November 26, 2021

“Investment in the upstream UK oil and gas sector is absolutely critical,” said Tim Eggar, chairman of the Oil and Gas Authority during the Petex Conference in London this week.…

A blow for the Zechstein play

Henk Kombrink

November 25, 2021

The discovery of oil in the Zechstein Hauptdolomite of the Ossian prospect (42/4-1Z) in 2019 triggered a significant amount of interest from the industry. After all, could oil be the…

Neptune Energy extends drilling contract with Odfjell Drilling

Press Release

November 23, 2021

Yesterday, Neptune Energy announced it extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai drilling rig, to include three additional wells in the Norwegian North Sea next year. The Deepsea Yantai…

One of the last remaining North Sea Chalk prospects

Henk Kombrink

November 22, 2021

As the North Sea matures further, there is a clear trend of more “challenging” prospects to appear or re-appear on the exploration radar. Prospects that were ignored for years because…

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Exploration

Should we explore for oil in a completely different way?

NPD keeps on releasing relinquishment reports

Nelson in the spotlight

Dry well for PGNiG

UK 3 – Norway 2

Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Potential in Sumatra

Brazil Offering Deepwater Blocks in 17th Offshore Licensing Round

Two neighbouring countries, two contrasting exploration strategies?

Moderate and realistic

A blow for the Zechstein play

Neptune Energy extends drilling contract with Odfjell Drilling

One of the last remaining North Sea Chalk prospects

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