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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Subsurface Storage

“In one year, we lost two years”

Henk Kombrink
“Last year was not a very good one,” Habib admits when we meet on Teams. “Everybody expected that 2025 would be a turning point in the market, with many pro­jects…

Silver out, air in

Henk Kombrink
Just as Aberdeen in Scotland – where this article was written – is sometimes referred to as the “Silver City”, the village of Bro­ken Hill in southeastern Australia is described…

Progress over perfection

Ronny Setså
The Norwegian continental shelf offers a wealth of opportunities for new industries alongside and after oil, and car­bon capture and storage (CCS) has gained a solid foothold. Northern Lights has…

Being smart with data

Henk Kombrink
On the fringe of the EAGE GET Confer­ence in Rotterdam, I meet with May Zhang, who is representing Carbon Guardi­an in the start-up zone. We previous­ly met at the Annual…

How a sandbox model caused an epiphany

Henk Kombrink
“I think I watched it about 50 times,” Sean tells me when we meet online on a rainy morning. He refers to a video published by the FluidFlower research team…

An under-communicated factor for CCS

Ronny Setså
Ola Eiken. Photography: Ola Eiken private archive. “We did not want the same unexpected situation like we had at Ekofisk,” recalls Ola Eiken, CEO of Quad Geometrics. He refers to…

Understanding CO2 flow at Sleipner using stratigraphic continuity

Basil Onyekayahweh Nwafor and John Castagna, University of Houston, Robert Van Eykenhof and Marianne Rauch, Lumina Geophysical
The Sleipner pro­ject, located off­shore Norway, marks one of the first large-scale carbon cap­ture and storage (CCS) in­itiatives. Since 1996, more than 18.5 million tons of CO₂ have been injected…

Keeping geoscientists busy

Henk Kombrink
Geoscientists can go too far in the relent­less pursuit to de-risk all elements that could cause a CO2 store to leak. At least, that is my take based on listening…