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…
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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…
Pushing the boundaries of the Rotliegend Southern North Sea play – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
ONE Dyas spuds G18-02 Some exciting news from the Dutch sector, where ONE-Dyas spudded well G18-02 in the north-eastern part of the offshore. This well is likely targeting Lower Rotliegend…
Webinar on shallow marine tidal systems
John Howell from Aberdeen University, Scotland, will also host this third webinar in a series of four organised by FORCE. He will show some world-class examples of shallow marine tidal…
OFG and EMGS enter into a cooperation agreement
The agreement places specific emphasis on exploiting the obvious synergies between the state-of-the-art towed-streamer CSEM system from OFG (under its exclusive right to acquire the PGS EM technology) and the…
Unlocking University–Industry Collaboration
How do we release the full potential of university–industry collaboration in creating relevant innovations in petroleum and geoscience? The petroleum industry is going through a transformative period related to intensified…
The Red Rocks of South Pembrokeshire
The rocks which form the beautiful cliffs and beaches of south Pembrokeshire give a snapshot into the Variscan Orogen of south-west Wales. From a geological perspective the county of Pembrokeshire…