Exploration in the vast marine expanse of Oceania
Texas-based Palau Pacific Energy (PPE) is the operator of the North Block Concession, off the northern part of the Republic of Palau, east of the Philippines, and is planning the…
Australasia
Are the problems around the Gorgon CO2 storage project proof that CCS does not work?
“The world’s largest CCS project, the one that underpins CCS as a climate solution, as advocated by the oil and gas companies. But as the graph shows from the data…
Offshore Otway Basin drilling campaign
Stratigraphic column of the Otway Basin, Australia. Source: NVentures. The Otway Basin, offshore Victoria and Tasmania, is undergoing a significant drilling campaign, using the Transocean Equinox semi-submersible rig, aimed at…
The hidden lithium treasure of South Australia
Despite receiving just 165 mm of rain annually, Coopers Creek flows year-round, an anomaly that has lured generations of explorers in pre-history to early European settlers. Exploration by geologist Reg…
Open for business, again
“We have to inject life back into the economy and avoid de-industrialisation,” said Shane Jones during a webinar yesterday, hosted by Ross Compton from the EnerGeo Alliance. Mr Jones is…
“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…
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…