The clash of Cambo and COP26
Holidaying in the Scottish Highlands last week and driving around the tiny villages of Tomich and Cannich near Glen Affric makes one realise how Scotland both offers renewable energy but…
Oil & Gas
The Lower Cretaceous is in business
“Duva is the first discovery to be developed in the Agat Formation, and we’re hoping for additional discoveries and developments in the same formation,” said Kalmar Ilstad – Director of…
Geomicrobial Exploration
Microbial magic: how medical DNA fingerprinting can de-risk hydrocarbon exploration and production. Geomicrobial exploration is a novel technique within geochemical exploration. It uses the same base principle of detecting a…
Australia’s Beetaloo shale play
The Beetaloo Basin has, until recent years, been underexplored, with explorers believing the Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic (1.0–1.7 billion years ago) sequences too old to support hydrocarbons. However, following successful drilling…
Martin Linge on stream
“This is a big day for everyone working on the Martin Linge project, for Equinor and for our partner Petoro. I would like to thank everyone who has worked hard…
Has Tordis become bigger?
In the past few months, a polygon has been added to the Tordis field cluster (transparent green polygon in map below), which is bigger than the four already existing ones.…
Additional pay, not so far away
On Friday last week, Aker BP announced that production has started from the Gråsel field in the Norwegian Sea. It is a good example of the development of an oil…
Mature Fields: Easing into Retirement or a Second Career?
How can oil and gas fields extend their productive lives and are there opportunities to repurpose our fields, our facilities and ourselves? Many basins throughout the world, including those in…
The potential of “forgotten” pay
“Until a few months ago, no one apparently seemed to remember about this well test,” says Mike Lakin from Envoi. He points to a test performed in one of the…
Ekofisk – where did the field get its name from?
Back in 1964, Phillips Petroleum was awarded several exploration licences offshore Norway. “In time-honoured Oklahoma fashion, these licences were given imaginative names: Area A, B, up to G,” Leslie Popham…
A rapid local sea level rise
As the Ekofisk field celebrates its 50th production anniversary today, the vast amount data acquired throughout the years can be used to infer a variety of interesting trends, even when…
The Laggan cluster domino effect
The Laggan and Tormore development West of Shetland is an example of a recent and major investment in new infrastructure, as a new pipeline was constructed all the way from…