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…
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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…
Celebrating Ramsay’s Rock Folds and Fractures
This new volume of J.G. Ramsay’s Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, edited by Bond and Lebit, offers 14 case studies related to rock folding, fracturing and strain from the UK,…
Is Equinor going to be lucky where Wintershall wasn’t? – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
Exploration highlights on the Norwegian Continental Shelf This week the NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries took place as a digital event, spread out over two days. A large number of…
Denmark on the brink of ceasing exploration activity – a Friday North Sea wrap-up
In a statement issued yesterday, the Danish government announced that Total has withdrawn its 8th Round Application. According to an anonymous source, this means that Ardent is the only company…
Think twice before hitting the panic button
With Equinor last week announcing that nearly a third of their Norwegian exploration workforce is being axed, the Norwegian major joins a long list of companies going through the same…
A conference as you never saw it before
The NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries Conference will be held October 14-15. This year the conference will be digital. To ensure a seamless broadcast of the conference, we started recording…
World’s first Ultra High Density multi-client 3D hybrid seismic acquisition successfully completed
The LumiSeisTM Norwegian North Sea Quadrant 35 Hybrid MC3D project is 800 km2 and covers a mature area that includes the fields Nova and Vega (under development), Aurora and Grosbeak.…