The region took a huge leap forward in 2020 when the Turkish state energy company Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO) announced the giant Tuna-1 gas discovery in the western basin…
When porosities and fluid contrasts are modest, the acoustic impedance (AI) changes associated with water sweeping oil can be small, even at relatively shallow depths. That is the case in…
The Semenov hydrothermal fields along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 13° N, the same latitude as Senegal and Nicaragua, boast the world’s largest known Seafloor Massive Sulphide (SMS) deposits, with a…
“It may be the last oil field development in the Dutch sector,” upstream analyst Bert Manders told me the other day. The IJssel field development in the northern part of…
The Norwegian continental shelf offers a wealth of opportunities for new industries alongside and after oil, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) has gained a solid foothold. Northern Lights has…
A few years ago, I asked a seasoned wellsite geologist about the biggest subsurface surprise she had ever seen over her long career working on rigs. Rather than coming up…
Patrick Target, Stuart Lake and Ethan Lish, Vedra Hydrogen
Clean hydrogen production from electrolysis remains expensive and difficult to scale, leaving industry without the reliable, affordable supply needed for substantial decarbonisation. Vedra Hydrogen has embarked on a complementary approach:…
These days, it is quite common to hear that frontier exploration is a thing of the past. But what is about to happen in Greenland this year should cast some…
Turning archives into insight The goal is simple: Make geological cuttings not just visible, but actionable (Figure 1). Traditionally stored in boxes and rarely re-examined, these samples record the geological…
Early December last year, Eavor announced the start of electricity production from their Geretsried deep closed-loop project in the south of Germany, near the village of Geretsried. As expected, it…
The Dutch subsurface is well known for its gas resources, hosting the world-famous Groningen field. What is less well known is that there is plenty of salt, too. These evaporites…
I first visited Iceland a decade ago. Recently, I returned, courtesy of a European Geothermal Research project, hosted by Reykjavik Energy. We learned about heating and electricity production in Iceland,…