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Looking at the regional geology of the Wolin-East discovery in Poland

Ian Cross and Peter Browing-Stamp

August 4, 2025

Last month, Central European Petroleum (CEP) announced that its Wolin East-1 (WE1) well in the Baltic Sea in Poland was a significant oil discovery, having been designed to target primarily…

Despite putting the brakes on seabed mineral licensing, the Norwegian government continues to spend ever-increasing amounts on seabed mapping

Ronny Setså

July 31, 2025

“We have been busy,” confirmed Hilde Braut, Deputy Director for New Industries at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD), when she gave a lecture at the Deep Sea Minerals 2025 conference…

Romania – will there finally be a new bid round?

Henk Kombrink

July 29, 2025

Romania used to be Europe’s stronghold when it comes to oil production. But it’s not anymore today. That’s not because the country has run out of oil or gas; it…

Shaving off costs for geothermal exploration and production

Henk Kombrink

July 28, 2025

“ Let’s face it,” says Arndt Peterhaensel from TRACS, “with the energy density of geothermal energy being so much lower than from hydrocarbons, the service sector around this resource has…

How advanced seismic inversion and a sound depositional model led to the successful appraisal of an initially uneconomic discovery

Henk Kombrink

July 24, 2025

Let’s take a step back and look at the structures targeted in the early days of North Sea exploration. It is no surprise that back then, the big fields were…

Extract and re-inject water, from the same well

Henk Kombrink

July 18, 2025

The city of Munich is blessed with a very permeable succession of Quaternary sediments that enables a high and consistent supply of groundwater flow. As such, there is great potential…

At the start of the next super-cycle or halfway to rock-bottom?

Henk Kombrink

July 16, 2025

Apart from Norway, the UK Continental Shelf saw the highest number of seismic surveys acquired when looking at a global overview over the past ten years. Is that something to…

The “nugget effect” in geothermal exploration

Henk Kombrink

July 9, 2025

“We see permeabilities of 10 Darcy and above 15 % porosity, easily,” says Alan Bischoff. Alan is associate professor of geoenergy at the University of Turku in Finland. In that…

Understanding CO₂ flow at Sleipner using stratigraphic continuity

Basil Onyekayahweh Nwafor and John Castagna, University of Houston, Robert Van Eykenhof and Marianne Rauch, Lumina Geophysical

July 3, 2025

The Sleipner project, located offshore Norway, marks one of the first large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives. Since 1996, more than 18.5 million tons of CO₂ have been injected…

How a recently acquired mining core became a new reference section for the Triassic of the North Sea

Henk Kombrink

June 25, 2025

In north Yorkshire, United Kingdom, a huge mine is being constructed by AngloAmerican to produce polyhalite from an Upper Permian evaporite succession. In order to design the shafts, a borehole…

I talk of dreams

Juan Cottier, MMbbls Subsurface Consulting

June 6, 2025

I am a dreamer. I always have been. Though not on the scale of Alexander the Great or Martin Luther King, but I do dream every night, with complex narratives…

An exciting drilling campaign in exciting geology

Henk Kombrink

June 5, 2025

Did EBN set a trend? That’s to be seen, but the four-well geothermal drilling campaign the Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency recently embarked on to prove the potential of an equal number…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Europe

Looking at the regional geology of the Wolin-East discovery in Poland

Despite putting the brakes on seabed mineral licensing, the Norwegian government continues to spend ever-increasing amounts on seabed mapping

Romania – will there finally be a new bid round?

Shaving off costs for geothermal exploration and production

How advanced seismic inversion and a sound depositional model led to the successful appraisal of an initially uneconomic discovery

Extract and re-inject water, from the same well

At the start of the next super-cycle or halfway to rock-bottom?

The “nugget effect” in geothermal exploration

Understanding CO₂ flow at Sleipner using stratigraphic continuity

How a recently acquired mining core became a new reference section for the Triassic of the North Sea

I talk of dreams

An exciting drilling campaign in exciting geology

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