Europe

Offshore Algarve Basin geological carbon storage potential

In the Algarve Basin, two late Mi­ocene plays have been identified southeast of the Faro Peninsula using high-quality seismic and bore­hole data (Figure 1). These comprise of high-porosity turbiditic sands…

Norway’s AlphaGo moment: Why 2025 changed the game

In 2016, Google’s AlphaGo played “Move 37” against Lee Sedol – a move that looked bafflingly wrong to human experts but ultimate­ly secured the win. In 2025, the Norwegian Continental…

The Black Sea is back

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…

A greenprint for deep sea copper exploration

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…

Progress over perfection

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…

Layer cake geology and a lack of grid access

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…

France’s first stimulated natural hydrogen project

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:…