“The day I cut an 88 ft core of top seal”
“LinkedIn seems to be the place to brag about your career successes,” says Luke Johnson from TRACS International in this video. But sometimes, it is things that went wrong that…
Australasia
Building a reservoir model for a geothermal field
The first well in the Ohaaki geothermal field in New Zealand was drilled in 1965. However, it lasted until 1989 before power production really started, even though large-scale testing of…
Developing the Kuda Tasi and Jahal discoveries offshore Timor-Leste
Continuing the exploration and development success of the Laminaria High In 2024, Finder Energy underwent a transformational change, acquiring the rights to develop several oil discoveries on the Laminaria High…
Faster and faster
Drilling faster is a big driver for technological development in every aspect of the subsurface industry, and the shallow geothermal sector is no exception. “We can significantly increase the drilling…
Record-breaking deep conventional gas discovery points to a major new trend in the Central Perth Basin
Strike Energy* (50 %, operator) and Warrego Energy’s Erregulla Deep-1 (ED-1) well, in EP 469, discovered two high-quality, low-impurity conventional gas reservoirs, totalling 28 m of net gas pay at…
Fairy circles
Companies exploring for natural hydrogen are rapidly popping up everywhere, but how do the geologists decide where to start prospecting? Many of them look at historical data from “dry” hydrocarbon…
Imagine – heating your house using gas produced by 1.3 billion-year-old blue-green algae
Compared to gas from the Beetaloo Basin, shale gas from the USA is just a teenager, with the age of the Pennsylvanian source rocks hovering around 350 million years. The…
Exploration of the Papuan Plateau: How revolutionary geophysical technology reveals new seismic insights
Searcher’s Papuan Plateau 2D seismic. Holding out for a hero: How evolving geophysical technology revolutionised a Frontier Basin A lot can change in twenty years. In 2004, the Nintendo DS…
Why political endorsement of the oil and gas industry won’t bring back the majors straight away
It is too easy to think that a policy reversal in favour of oil and gas exploration such as the one that was recently announced for New Zealand will immediately…
Integration of structural and stratigraphic data using automated workflows
Geoscientists rely on their pattern recognition ability every day, comparing already known sedimentary and structural fabrics with new ones when diving into new datasets. However, with the increase in size…
Natural hydrogen – as you may not have seen it before
The “mainstream” hydrogen community in the West leans towards multiple physical and chemical processes that lead to the formation of hydrogen in the crust, such as serpentinization, ferrolysis, nuclear decay…
Shallow geothermal in Australia – from “cold” Melbourne to “hot” Sydney
This is the second out of three articles in shallow geothermal series. In the first one, we focused our attention on Sweden, where 100% of geo-energy is produced by shallow…