Should academia cut ties with the fossil fuel industry?
“A ridiculous question.” It was one of the comments we got on the poll featuring the question stated above. Nevertheless, we received a total of 382 votes, which is our…
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Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?
Twenty years ago, the first edition of Devex took place in Aberdeen. At the time, the conference revolved around extending the life of oil and gas fields. “Not much has…
95% of seismic data was unused – for the wrong reasons
“My first start-up failed”, said Bill Shea at the EAGE Annual in Vienna recently. “But, maybe it was meant to be, because the second time it went much better and…
“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…
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…