The big crew change – but where does the new crew come from?
The last talk of the day. Sometimes it can be hard to concentrate when the tenth speaker flicks through the slides. But Prof Alejandro Escalana’s talk did the contrary, it…
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Exploration revived – and conferencing revived!
200 attendees will gather in Stavanger and Oslo over the next two days to listen to talks from all the key players operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf during the…
Deep Sea Minerals conference: Call for Posters
The programme for the upcoming Deep Sea Minerals Conference (20-21 Oct) is finalised, but there is still opportunity to present your work in the form of a poster presentation. Posters…
NSNR awarded permit for 3D seismic survey over Devil’s Hole Horst structure
Yesterday, North Sea Natural Resources (NSNR) announced that an environmental licence permit was granted for a 3D seismic survey across the Devil’s Hole Horst oil discovery on the western platform…
Drilling for science in a Norwegian frontier area
On the 11th of August, drill ship JOIDES Resolution set sail from the port of Reykjavik. During the two-month cruise this autumn, the crew hopes to drill at nine locations…
Driving a Quantum Leap in E&P Efficiency
As the E&P sector undergoes structural change to adapt to the new business environment, the need for disruptive gains in E&P efficiencies has never been greater. The E&P industry is…
North Sea Core: An Undervalued Asset
How unwanted core is finding a second life and renewed purpose within the Geoscience Community through the North Sea Core Initiative. As oil and gas fields across the UK Continental…
The Winning of Romanian Oil
Geopolitically important as an oil producer for a century, Romania remains one of Europe’s largest producers. Oil was first exploited commercially in Romania in 1857 and, since then, the industry…
Geopoetry 2020: A Celebration
Rocks have long inspired poets, so this event brought together poets and geoscientists to discuss how, in an era of climate change, their disciplines can influence each other and to…
A summer subsurface summary
As summer gradually draws to a close, people get back to work and schools are about to re-open, it’s time to present a bit of a summary of what happened…
TGS Announces NOAKA Ocean Bottom Node Seismic Survey
The 437 square kilometer survey will be acquired in the NOAKA area, between the Oseberg and Alvheim fields in the Norwegian North Sea, containing both held and open acreage. This…
North Sea entrant acquires two UKCS licences
As announced yesterday, newly formed Quattro Energy intends to acquire two UK Central North Sea licences north and east of the Piper field from United Oil and Gas. United was…