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Storing radwaste: From academic pipe dreams to more practical ideas

Rodney Garrard

May 26, 2025

The history of radioactive waste disposal is probably one of the best examples of how subsurface projects evolve. Starting in the 1950s, the spectrum of project ideas was broad-ranging, from…

Maybe the energy sector does not need so many new geoscientists after all?

Henk Kombrink

May 19, 2025

There was an outcry when the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, recently announced its intention to close its geoscience department. Many well-respected geoscientists posted on LinkedIn how bad this…

And all the while, hydrocarbons are transitioning away from us

Henk Kombrink

April 25, 2025

”It’s the hope that keeps us here,” wrote Neil Hodgson and the Searcher team this week. He alluded to those promising ultra-deepwater fields that are about to be discovered. Hope…

Subsurface noise, Issue 1, 2025

Henk Kombrink

April 25, 2025

HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE ON YOUR PAYROLL WHEN YOUR ASSETS HAVE ALL CEASED PRODUCTION? That’s the question one particular operator faces in the North Sea. And they have found a…

Taking a seat on the 4-legged stool of honest energy policy

Rodney Garrard

April 17, 2025

It’s time to start being honest to ourselves regarding the suitability of an ambitious, high-profile goal such as “net zero”. The unpopular truth is that it has long been evident…

Energy sobriety – a moment of clarity in a “dry January”

Rodney Garrard

February 18, 2025

As we enter a new year it’s always important to ponder what we have learned from the previous year. I discovered that most people think that energy is simple and…

Subsurface noise, Issue 6, 2024

Henk Kombrink

February 4, 2025

PREVENTING BLOWOUTS IN GEOTHERMAL WELLS It is not only only oil and gas wells that can experience blowouts. The same can happen when targeting hot water or steam, as a…

Looking into the 2025 subsurface crystal ball

Henk Kombrink

December 20, 2024

But first, what was the talk of the town in 2024? Namibia stole many of the headlines, as it continues to do today and will probably continue to be doing…

Jevons paradox

Rodney Garrard

November 27, 2024

The environmental ideology driving the statement, “the sooner hydrocarbons or fossil fuels are gone, the better for the world”, is misguided and misses the fact that to create a positive…

A personal Petex

Henk Kombrink

November 22, 2024

When I attended Petex for the first time, it must have been around 2010, I took it all for granted: the big booths, the enormous exhibition floor, the large number…

Let’s not play Russian roulette with our energy system

Rodney Garrard

October 24, 2024

I am not a pessimist, and I don’t like using terms like “energy crisis”, but if we do not start to take our energy system seriously, many industries will leave…

The exploration legacy of Bernard Looney

Henk Kombrink

October 15, 2024

In a speech delivered to people at Stanford University in March 2002, then bp chief executive Lord John Browne declared that his company needed to reinvent the energy business. “We…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

In the News

Storing radwaste: From academic pipe dreams to more practical ideas

Maybe the energy sector does not need so many new geoscientists after all?

And all the while, hydrocarbons are transitioning away from us

Subsurface noise, Issue 1, 2025

Taking a seat on the 4-legged stool of honest energy policy

Energy sobriety – a moment of clarity in a “dry January”

Subsurface noise, Issue 6, 2024

Looking into the 2025 subsurface crystal ball

Jevons paradox

A personal Petex

Let’s not play Russian roulette with our energy system

The exploration legacy of Bernard Looney

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