UKCS: Found oil close to Rosebank
Siccar Point Energy has completed drilling the Blackrock exploration well 204/5b-2 in the West of Shetland. The target of the well was the intravolcanic Paleocene Flett reservoirs of the Colsay…
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OGA has launched a technology portal
The portal is based on information provided by operators through the OGA’s Stewardship Survey and other sources. It enables operators to access information and lessons learned on technology deployment and…
New Thermal Area Discovered in Yellowstone National Park
Using Landsat-8 thermal infrared images, geoscientists at the Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory recently identified the emergence of an entirely new thermal area in the National Park. Image by David Mark from…
The smoking gun
Raise your hand if you want to find the next Skrugard, Alta, Gotha or Goliat field in the Barents Sea! Or – even better – join the crowd and take…
EarthNET – one of three finalists
According to the criteria, The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded to a license group, company, team or person who during the last couple of years have given a courageous and…
Revitalizing Exploration on the UKCS
Finding cost on the UKCS has been reduced from 9 to 1 $ per bbl in only five years, says Andy Samuel, CEO of OGA in a recent podcast published…
Nine candidates have been selected for the Exploration Innovation Prize 2019
This year’s 9 candidates, as selected by the programme committee of the NCS Exploration 2019 conference (“Recent Advances in Petroleum Exploration”), are presented here: The Exploration Innovation Prize 2019. In…
Hurricane tests another fractured basement reservoir
Hurricane Energy focuses on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs and on April 16 spudded the 205/26b-C well (“Warwick Deep”) . Warwick Deep is the first in a three-well…
Equinor strenghtens position in Argentina with seven offshore blocks
Equinor submitted the winning bids for five blocks as operator. Equinor also participated in winning bids for one block to be operated by YPF and one block to be operated…
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…
NW Europe in Top Ten
Some 3.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) were discovered world-wide in the first quarter of 2019, according to Rystad Energy. This compares with 9.1 billion boe discovered in total last…
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…