Shaving off costs for geothermal exploration and production
“ 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…
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How advanced seismic inversion and a sound depositional model led to the successful appraisal of an initially uneconomic discovery
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
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?
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
“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
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
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
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
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…
Intense exploration and appraisal in the Norwegian Barents Sea
The Norwegian Barents Sea has been the venue for a continuous campaign of exploration and appraisal over the past year. As shown in Figure 1, to date, there have been…
Discover more in Møre, Norway
Figure 2 (left): Overview map of the NVG survey (blue), NVG24 (green) and sparse OBN (black) coverage near the Norwegian coast. Figure 3 (right): Time-structure map of the top acoustic…
Geological understanding based on new data is required to unlock potential in the Vøring Basin
TGS 3D seismic data coverage in the Norwegian Sea. PGS23M02NWS GeoStreamer 3D seismic and location of composite foldout line. Outer Vøring Basin – what is required? To unlock the prospectivity…