COVER STORY

16 – The state of global gas exploration

NORTH WEST EUROPE

30 – Are National Oil Companies the answer to addressing security of supply concerns across the North Sea?31 – “ We should have looked at that regional seismic line with more care before signing off on a plan for drilling”
33 – For Vår Energi, the future lies in the north
34 – Making a case for domestic oil and gas production

CONTENT MARKETING

22 – Supporting the search for large scale carbon storage sites
52 – Namibia’s Orange Basin and the holey slope mystery
74 – The Danish Energy Island

FEATURES

36 – The genesis of natural hydrogen exploration
41 – Helium – the birth of a new exploration industry
43 – CNOOC makes largest offshore hydrocarbon discovery in special rock formation. What is that about?
45 – Is the Colombian Basin on its way to become the next big frontier?
47 – In the heart of the global economy
48 – Hydrocarbon shows don’t necessarily mean a significant find
49 – The sequel: The hunt for Buzzard II continues

PORTRAITS

58 – Four decades of rocks – Amanda Barlow

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

64 – How to explain the low energy output of one of the UK’s flagship geothermal projects?
65 – Shallow geothermal drilling is not without risk
67 – And the winner is…
68 – Brushing up on your geothermal vocabulary

SUBSURFACE STORAGE

70 – Producing shale gas through the injection of CO2
71 – The race for pressure space
72 – Hydrogen storage in a depleted gas reservoir – how easy is that?

TECHNOLOGY

80 – Can map tools find relevant documents?
81 – Answering the 3-billion fossil question
82 – “In this case, we’d rather find the smallest prospect”

DEEP SEA MINERALS

84 – Drilling on the seabed
85 – An accidental discovery of a large mineral deposit
86 – Mineral resource estimates for Nordic waters expose a rift between major Norwegian institutions