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Seamount summit crusts

Seamounts are abundant in the world’s oceans, numbering in the tens of thousands, with some estimates exceeding 100,000. These submarine mountains, mostly extinct volcanoes, rise at least a kilometer above the seafloor but don’t break the water surface. From a…

Ronny Setså

October 12, 2026

Is helium the bonus or the business?

Gold Hydrogen started exploration on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on the back of a legacy hydrocarbon well. They had a clear lead on hydrogen, but they also found exceptionally high helium concentrations. An independent commercial assessment now indicates…

Mariël Reitsma

August 12, 2026

Movement towards a mining moratorium

Mining in international waters is a hotly debated topic. One of the discussion points is environmental concerns about the effect of mining on the unique and poorly understood abyssal plain ecosystem. The Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) is passionate about protecting…

Mariël Reitsma

July 15, 2026

Too early to declare a commercial success

Australia’s Gold Hydrogen was one of the earliest movers in the hunt for natural hydrogen: taking up acreage in South Australia, raising funds and drilling a number of exploration wells. Its two earliest wells, Ramsay-1 and -2 drilled in late…

Arnout Jw Everts, AEGeo

April 22, 2026

How structural setting and hydrocarbon phase are closely related

The Papuan Basin is located across a tectonically active area and is dominated by a gas-prone Jurassic petroleum system with a whole-of-system Gas-Liquid Ratio of 30,000 scf/bbl. The complex geology, coupled with a steep and karstified surface terrain, results in…

Lukasz Krawczynski and Martin Neumaier

February 3, 2026

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 first wildcat drilled in Oceania for a while. Palau saw…

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co

January 19, 2026

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 Chevron provided, its performance is getting worse by the year,”…

Henk Kombrink

December 17, 2025

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 bolstering Australia’s domestic gas supply. This initiative seeks to address…

Jonathan Craig, NVentures

November 17, 2025

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 Sprigg, founder of Santos and Beach Energy, led to drilling…

Geoff Freer, Hydro Lit

October 17, 2025

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 not a random member of the public interviewed and asked…

Henk Kombrink

October 15, 2025

“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 can teach so much more. That certainly applies to the…

Henk Kombrink

September 24, 2025

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 wells had taken place before the commissioning of the 116…

Henk Kombrink

July 14, 2025

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Australasia

Seamount summit crusts

Is helium the bonus or the business?

Movement towards a mining moratorium

Too early to declare a commercial success

How structural setting and hydrocarbon phase are closely related

Exploration in the vast marine expanse of Oceania

Are the problems around the Gorgon CO₂ storage project proof that CCS does not work?

Offshore Otway Basin drilling campaign

The hidden lithium treasure of South Australia

Open for business, again

“The day I cut an 88 ft core of top seal”

Building a reservoir model for a geothermal field

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