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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Technology

Norway’s AlphaGo moment: Why 2025 changed the game

Dan Austin, Sekal
In 2016, Google’s AlphaGo played “Move 37” against Lee Sedol – a move that looked bafflingly wrong to human experts but ultimate­ly secured the win. In 2025, the Norwegian Continental…

“It will make you look like a hero”

Henk Kombrink
“When we start shaving off millions of each well, then we are talking busi­ness,” says Iain Whyte from Islay Sub­surface. “That’s the prize we’re all after.” But how to win…

Hunting for sands

Henk Kombrink
If a school bus driver is instruct­ed to stop the vehicle within a fraction of a meter, there needs to be systematic speed and brake control in place. Otherwise, the…

Producing more by producing less

Henk Kombrink
“The pressure in the separation unit, where the produced oil is separat­ed from gas, is the ultimate driver for your entire field development approach,” says Alexey Danilko, production engineer at…

It’s time to introduce chromostratigraphy

Henk Kombrink
“Off-white, grey, quartz-rich, some occluded quartz and kaolinite.” Simon Molyneux cites the description of a cutting sample from a composite well log, which is thought to represent an interval of…

“FWI has changed the game”

Henk Kombrink
“I’m a petroleum engineer, but I’ve been in the exploration and seis­mic business since the 1970s,” says Rafael when we meet on Teams a week before the IMAGE Conference in…

Finding big fields by detecting the smallest element

Henk Kombrink
“We are changing the world of explo­ration,” says Denis Krysanov from He­ologic, when we meet on Teams. “I’m now planning on expanding Heologic’s operations in the United States,” he says.…

The human touch in reservoir modelling

Henk Kombrink
As our 30-minute conversa­tion took place on a Tuesday morning in early September, three emails arrived in Bas­tian’s inbox. Three separate and unrelated enquiries from customers in Switzerland, Germany, and…