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Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin

April 10, 2024

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!

Ronny Setså

April 9, 2024

“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

Henk Kombrink

March 21, 2024

“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

Ted Cross - Novi Labs

March 15, 2024

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?

Henk Kombrink

February 26, 2024

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

Henk Kombrink

February 21, 2024

“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

Molly Turko, Cameron Thompson and Kourtney Brinkley - Devon Energy; Julia Gale and Sara Elliot, Bureau of Economic Geology

February 1, 2024

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?

Henk Kombrink

January 26, 2024

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…

More wells

Gehrig Schultz

January 24, 2024

High-impact New player MCF will drill two high-impact wells in Germany in Q1 2024. One will be a development well in the Lech area Bavaria, Germany. A previously drilled well…

The future lies in low-perm reservoirs – not only in the desert but possibly in deep-water too

Henk Kombrink

January 19, 2024

We received quite a few comments on our short story about the commencement of tight gas production from the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia. Thanks to that, there is an…

Ghawar keeps on going

Henk Kombrink

January 17, 2024

In November last year, Aramco announced that it produced its first unconventional tight gas from the Ghawar South project, producing up to 300 mmscf/day of gas and 38 kbpd of…

Lots of activity but limited resource growth

Ronny Setså

January 16, 2024

Every year in January, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate – which until the turn of the year was called the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate – summarizes the activities on the Norwegian continental…

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Oil & Gas

Hydrocarbon find at the far eastern end of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin

Increase risk!

Hydrocarbon shows don’t necessarily mean a significant discovery

The vast brushlands of West Texas and New Mexico hold a miracle

What is the longest well drilled along hole?

Oil – and increasingly gas – on steroids

Analysing a hydraulically fractured horizontal core to assess refrac candidates

What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?

More wells

The future lies in low-perm reservoirs – not only in the desert but possibly in deep-water too

Ghawar keeps on going

Lots of activity but limited resource growth

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