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Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?

June 23, 2023

Twenty years ago, the first edition of Devex took place in Aberdeen. At the time, the conference revolved around extending the life of oil and gas fields. “Not much has…

An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem

Henk Kombrink

June 14, 2023

Shell is a large company, and with that comes the existence of siloes across the organisation. Management in Shell recognised that as a problem, and therefore it created spin-off company…

What a meeting at a conference can do

Henk Kombrink

June 5, 2023

“As many people from my generation, I started my career with Saga Petroleum”, says Tore Karlsson. Having graduated as a geophysicist from the University of Bergen, at Saga he was…

Oil is out, CCS and Geothermal are in at EGC1

Henk Kombrink

May 22, 2023

When the plenary keynotes concluded on the first day of the Energy Geoscience Conference (EGC1) in Aberdeen last week, a very interesting thing happened. The room, which had been pretty…

Energy Geoscience Conference

Graham Goffey, EGC1 Conference Board Chair

May 10, 2023

The Energy Geoscience Conference – EGC – is a new conference series launched by the Geological Society and the GESGB under the strapline ‘powering the energy transition through subsurface collaboration’.…

Swimming in subsurface data – on YouTube

Henk Kombrink

April 19, 2023

A new way of providing subsurface intelligence is the use of videos compiled by geoscientists. Sharing content in this way can be rewarding but daunting at the same time. That…

“I felt like in a knowledge vacuum”

Henk Kombrink

March 29, 2023

“When starting out my career at Saga Petroleum in the late 1970s, about ten years after the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector in 1968, I was curious to…

Vår Energi wins Exploration Revived 2023 award

Sidsel Lindsø

March 21, 2023

The ongoing global energy crisis has highlighted the importance of continuing to invest in oil and gas exploration in order to satisfy short- and medium-term demand as the world transitions…

“Shooting a fish in a barrel”

Henk Kombrink

March 14, 2023

Conversations at conferences are a good way to verify what people think. And there were many people at this week’s Seapex Conference; with more than 400 participants the number exceeded…

“I got kind of bored and underutilised sitting on the sidelines “refreshing” job pages”

Henk Kombrink

February 10, 2023

“I decided to put my work out there and keep myself active, rather than just reposting work from others”, Jamie Vinnels wrote in an email. Jamie has been compiling subsurface…

An Exposed Salt Dome

Stuart Harker

January 26, 2023

The salt exposed here consists of halites of the Ara Salt, which was deposited around 540 million years ago during the earliest Cambrian. The core of the dome, where the…

“All the Beautiful Domes”

Quentin Morton

January 23, 2023

Royal Dutch Shell owed its origins to Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

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Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?

An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem

What a meeting at a conference can do

Oil is out, CCS and Geothermal are in at EGC1

Energy Geoscience Conference

Swimming in subsurface data – on YouTube

“I felt like in a knowledge vacuum”

Vår Energi wins Exploration Revived 2023 award

“Shooting a fish in a barrel”

“I got kind of bored and underutilised sitting on the sidelines “refreshing” job pages”

An Exposed Salt Dome

“All the Beautiful Domes”

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