It took a holiday to find Ekofisk – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
Danish Government happy to send CO2 abroad In an article published on the Energy Watch website this week, it was announced that the Danish government considers to pipe CO2 abroad…
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Siri Canyon – storage and exploration – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
CO2 storage project Danish offshore reaches milestone As announced this week, the Nini West field in the Siri Canyon has reached a milestone into being developed as a site for…
Basement play still attractive – A Friday North Sea wrap up
With the NCS Exploration Strategy conference taking place this week, there’s a bit too much to report on, so we will focus on a few highlights today and keep the…
AGR commence decommissioning operations Offshore Ireland
PSE Kinsale Energy Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS, is decommissioning its gas fields in the Kinsale Area in the Celtic Sea, approximately 50 km off the south coast of…
Tackling the Local Content Gap in Africa
E&P companies working in Africa have long faced political pressure to maximise local content, but in today’s Covid world it makes more business sense than ever to localise supply chains,…
From GIS to Geomodel – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
Aker BP announces small discovery in Norwegian Sea Well 6607/12-4 was drilled to target Jurassic/Triassic reservoir rocks of the Garn, Ile, Tofte, Tilje and Åre Formations, but even though a…
Finding ammonites – through coring
From 1967 to 1969, the so-called Mochras borehole was drilled on the coast of West Wales. This well penetrated a biostratigraphically complete succession of 1300 m of Lower Jurassic marine…
Shallow gas continues to prove commercial – A Friday North Sea wrap up
Petrogas E&P Netherlands to drill more wells in shallow gas fields With the rig contract being announced this week, this three-well programme is testament to the remaining potential of the…
Webinar on Deep Water systems
John Howell from Aberdeen University, Scotland, will also host this fourth webinar in a series of four organised by FORCE. He will show some world-class examples of deep marine systems…
The fields that were found on John’s watch
Edited by industry gurus Graham Goffey and Jon Gluyas, this volume marks the fourth in a series of Geological Society Memoirs on UK’s oil and gas fields. It also marks…
Drilling for shale, drilling for sand – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
New platform successfully installed in Dutch offshore Last week, Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Sleipnir successfully installed a new minimum facilities platform for Dana, P11-Unity, close to the existing De Ruyter…
Setting casing from home
Next week, the bi-annual Operations Geoscience conference takes place, organised by a team of volunteers from the industry and facilitated by the Energy Group of The Geological Society. Prior to…