Vol. 20

Issue 2

Editorial focus: NW Europe, Renewables

Columns

3 – Editor’s page

5 – A minute to read

12 – Regional update

14 – Striking gas

83 – GEO EXPRO Volume 20

84 – Hot Spot

86 – Nothing beats the field

88 – Vertical geology

 

 

Features

16 – Well logs and facies interpretation

23 – North West Europe

30 – Exploration Opportunitites: Northern Viking Graben – Chasing the Upper  Jurassic Play

35 – Features: Machine learning validation: An often understated requirement in geophysics

39 – De-risking the Cabora Bassa Basin

44 – The Kavango Onshore Namibia

48 – Exploration Opportunities: Sands and source rock delivered by the Tangier WAZ3D in the current Nova Scotia License Round

54 – Portraits and interviews: Helena Dobrova

59 – Geothermal energy

65 – Subsurface storage

72 – Exploration Opportunities: Characterising CCUS sites: Legacy Data. Powered by machine learning

77 – Deep Sea Minerals

Articles

The love of reducing complexity

Displayed in a corridor near the reception at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in Stavanger is a five meter long glass print of a Late Devonian core from the Embla field. Read More

How to attract the majors?

When it comes to finding new oil and gas fields, there’s not much that can beat the excitement of frontier exploration. Drilling wells in areas where no one has gone Read More

Dropping nodes from a supply vessel

“While the node market has evolved in the sense that individual nodes have become smaller and therefore lighter to handle”, a completely new way of operating these devices has not Read More

10 can turn into 1000

Hydrothermal chimneys are a spectacular sight. They were first observed in the Pacific Ocean in 1979, and in Norway at the Jan Mayen hydrothermal fields on the Mohns ridge in Read More

The heartbeat of Europe

Norway remains the heartbeat activity in Northwest Europe, and is the gift that keeps on giving to use that well-known phrase. The country has had successful bid rounds, regular deal Read More

Energy Geoscience Conference

The Energy Geoscience Conference – EGC – is a new conference series launched by the Geological Society and the GESGB under the strapline ‘powering the energy transition through subsurface collaboration’. Read More

A potential depth record?

The website ThinkGeoenergy reported in February that preparations were ongoing for drilling a geothermal well in the south of Poland, with a potential terminal depth of 7 km. Reaching this Read More

Fans of Senegal…

Senegal is due to become an oil producing nation later this year when Woodside brings onstream the Sangomar field which should lift 100,000 bbls of oil per day to the Read More

The challenge at Gorgon

“Every CO2 project will have its unique challenges”, said Chris Stavinoha from Chevron during his presentation at SEAPEX last month. And as he explained during his talk, Chevron’s Gorgon CO2 Read More

Spotted at…

A conference about digitalisation and subsurface data in Norway – it is a platform where one would mainly expect people from energy companies and the related service sector. But the Read More