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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Africa

Libya’s oil and gas renaissance

Scott Parker, Core Laboratories
Libya, long regarded as one of Africa’s most geologically rich petroleum provinces, is re-emerging with renewed focus and ambition. After years of underinvestment, geopolitical instability, and widespread field shut-ins, the…

Too fast, too soon

Henk Kombrink
In Geothermal energy production, it is all about the tem­perature of the produced water, brine or steam. A drop in temperature has a direct effect on the amount of energy…

A welcome gas find

Henk Kombrink
When looking at the oil and gas fields in the Western Desert of Egypt, and then read this article from Simon Baer and colleagues at PGS, which describes how the…

The writing was on the wall

Henk Kombrink
Yesterday, Reuters broke the news that Shell has written off a $400 million exploration investment over “an oil discovery” in PEL39 in Namibia’s deep-water area. Even though a field name…

Helium found in new and unexpected places

Mariël Reitsma, HRH Geology
In Finland, 80 Mile positively tested copper-zinc exploration boreholes, while Pulsar Helium has drilled an appraisal well in Minnesota after nickel exploration accidentally found helium. In South Africa, Renergen is…

Oil does not care about boundaries

Henk Kombrink
In the early decades of oil ex­ploration and production, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, the concept of an oil field having clear boundaries was not given much thought.…