“If I do it again, I want to do it even better”
At some point in the last few years, Anders Kihlberg asked himself: “What were the best years of my life?” Soon he came to the conclusion that it was the…
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An investment banker who solved a geophysical problem
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…
From oil and gas to geothermal
Now known as S3 Smart Seismic Solutions, I met with Jean-Baptiste Chalvidan and Patrick Robert at the EAGE Annual in Vienna last week. “Compared to the years with CGG, where…
What a meeting at a conference can do
“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
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
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
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…
Geothermal development programs in Alaska
Alaska’s Mount Spurr and Mount Augustine are two active stratovolcanoes closely monitored by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO). Despite their geothermal potential, these volcanoes have yet to be fully explored…
“I felt like in a knowledge vacuum”
“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
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…
Loke acquires deep-sea mineral licences in the Pacific Ocean
Loke Marine Minerals announced yesterday that it acquired UK Seabed Resources’ deep-sea mineral business. UK Seabed Resources (UKSR) holds a 100% interest in two deep-sea mineral licences located in the…
“Shooting a fish in a barrel”
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…