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Growth in Demand for ‘Energy Transition Minerals’ Drives Expansion for Xcalibur

Minute to Read by GEO ExPro

June 18, 2021

At the end of June this year, Xcalibur Airborne Geophysics completed its acquisition of CGG Multiphysics businesses. The new combined group will be named XCalibur Multiphysics. At the end of…

Putting a Prize on Carbon Capture

Nick Cottam

June 18, 2021

Elon Musk offers $100 million (about 0.05% of his net worth) to any team that comes up with the best way to capture carbon. Everyone likes a pat on the…

Will CCS ever happen in the UK?

Guest Author

June 7, 2021

There are quite a few Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) sites on a global basis. Why has it not happened in the UK yet? The map below shows the operational…

No Transition Without Offsets

Nick Cottam

May 18, 2021

If you are a big emitter of carbon, then reaching net zero means investing in carbon offsets – in the short term at least – and it’s perhaps no surprise…

Gas Flaring

John-Henry Charles, Brian Hepp and Mark Davis; Capterio

May 18, 2021

Gas flaring is a significant source of economic and environmental waste, but it is also a quick win decarbonization lever! Gas flaring, the deliberate combustion of natural gas at oil…

The borehole that is almost entirely cored

Henk Kombrink

May 13, 2021

An extensive research programme is currently underway in Switzerland with the aim to identify the best location for the safe storage of nuclear waste. Three areas have been selected in…

The Net-Zero Transition: An Important Conversation

James Ball

March 18, 2021

This article, from one of the two joint GEO ExPro student competition winners, focuses on the oil industry’s role in the green energy transition. Discussing climate change and its impact…

Mapping thief sands, for CCS purposes

Henk Kombrink

March 11, 2021

From CO2 storage licences to research on seal integrity risk, carbon capture and storage is featuring in the news this week.

Norwegian Government decides on funding for CO2 transport and storage project

December 16, 2020

The Northern Lights project is the transport and storage component of Longship, the Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and storage project. “Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is important to achieve…

Geoscience in a Low Carbon Future

Dean Baker, RISC Advisory

December 11, 2020

The role of a petroleum geoscientist is evolving with the energy transition, but geoscience is still of vital importance to the future of energy. Recent events regarding the global Covid-19…

How to justify not to drill a well when no well has been drilled before?

Henk Kombrink

October 5, 2020

The offshore of Belgium is small. It’s the smallest offshore area of all countries surrounding the North Sea. Yet, not a single deep well has been drilled so far. Because…

Rystad Launches Renewables Solution

GEO ExPro

September 17, 2020

In order to monitor, track and analyse global data coming from the renewable energy industry, Rystad Energy recently announced the launch of its Renewables Solution data, analytics and advisory service.…

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