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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Oil & Gas

A major and not-on-trend discovery in Kuwait

Henk Kombrink
Kuwait is not the first country one would associ­ate with places ramping up efforts to discover more oil. At the end of the day, the small Gulf country is home…

The birth of a new play

Henk Kombrink
This is a story of how subsur­face data was used in the way it should be – to incremental­ly gain a better understand­ing of how a petroleum system works. And…

Disentangling a deep oil play

Henk Kombrink, with significant contributions from Ted Godo
Over the course of 10 years, Shell had ample reasons to walk away from the Norphlet play in the GOM. Deeply buried, this Upper Jurassic system was always near the…

Ivorian renaissance

Peter Elliott, NVentures
The petroleum provinces of Cote d’Ivoire are amongst the hottest properties in the exploration sector at the moment. While oil and gas regulators and operators work hard to stimulate investment…

Bid rounds – is it time to consider another model?

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co
Against a backdrop of civil unrest, political un­certainty and unattractive fiscal regimes, it is no sur­prise that there is limited interest from international investors to embark on an exploration adventure…

Finding oil in synclines

Henk Kombrink
This week, I came across the concept of finding oil in synclines on a number of unrelated occasions. It simply shows how diverse geology and exploration are. The first example…

The geoscience of decommissioning

Henk Kombrink
“ Let’s not try to sugarcoat it, it wasn’t always easy”, she continues. “The pandemic unfolded, and taking care of ho­meschooling, a full-time job and completing the university modules on…