The sequel: The hunt for Buzzard II continues
The prospect is located in the Peterhead Graben, a sub-basin in the geographically more extensive ‘South Halibut Basin’, home to numerous Upper Jurassic fields and discoveries of which the giant…
Oil & Gas
Are National Oil Companies the answer to addressing security of supply concerns across the North Sea?
“Many countries in the West have deliberately moved from being carnivores to vegans if that analogy can be used for the energy system”, someone recently told me at a conference.…
Chasing giant oil prospects on the Arabian Platform in southeastern Türkiye
As part of the Arabian Platform, known as the most prolific oil province in the world without a doubt, southeastern Türkiye continued to be underexplored until recently. The USGS published…
Why?
Many question why oil and gas companies are still investing in the sector, at a time when the fight against global warming is intensifying and the world is keen on…
Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin
Yesterday, Petrobras announced the discovery of hydrocarbons in the ultra-deep waters of the Potiguar Basin in Brazil. The well, named Anhangá, found hydrocarbons in turbidite reservoir sands of Albian age.…
Increase risk!
“Have we run out of new ideas?”, asked Kjersti Dahle from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) rhetorically during her keynote speech at the NCS Exploration Strategy conference in Stavanger last…
Hydrocarbon shows don’t necessarily mean a significant discovery
“MCF Energy Announces Significant Gas Discovery in Austria“, is the headline of a press release issued a few days ago by Canadian player MCF Energy. That sounds like exciting news…
The vast brushlands of West Texas and New Mexico hold a miracle
Nestled in the vast brushlands of West Texas and New Mexico, the Permian Basin quietly outstrips the oil production of countries like Iraq, Iran, or Canada, a fact that often…
What is the longest well drilled along hole?
Based on a post on social media, in which we asked our followers to name the well with the highest step-out ratio – the ratio between horizontal distance and vertical…
Oil – and increasingly gas – on steroids
“We went from two to nineteen mudlogging units recently”, said a representative from Geolog at the IPTC Conference in Saudi Arabia this week. “It is obvious that things are picking…
Analysing a hydraulically fractured horizontal core to assess refrac candidates
Is a refrac worth the investment? That is what we investigated in an extensive study. A key piece of data in the study included a horizontal core adjacent to a…
What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?
This week, Namibia’s petroleum commissioner Maggy Shino announced that Shell has thus far discovered 200 million barrels of recoverable oil at Graff and 300 million barrels of recoverable oil at…