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Europe’s first full-scale onshore CO2 storage project

Mikael Lüthje, Martin Patrong Haspang; Gas Storage Denmark and Carsten Møller Nielsen; GEUS

October 6, 2023

Gas Storage Denmark (GSD) is currently in the detailed engineering phase of Europe’s first large-scale, commercially operational onshore CO2 storage facility (CO2RYLUS). This initiative aims to accelerate the development of…

Extended reach drilling for geothermal energy production

Henk Kombrink

October 3, 2023

The energy transition is about pipe, lots of pipe. Where gas can be transported across the globe, geothermal energy, especially the low-temperature version of it that is mainly used for…

Dutch flagship CCS project given the go-ahead in court

Henk Kombrink

August 16, 2023

More than 1000 people listened to the online broadcast of a hearing that lasted for about 3 minutes. There was something important at stake; the future of carbon storage in…

An analogue for carbon storage reservoirs

Allard van der Molen

August 4, 2023

The German Eifel hosts some great outcrops of the Lower Triassic ‘Buntsandstein’, such as this one featured here near the village of Bitburg. These sandstones were deposited in an arid…

“It’s not difficult, it’s different”

Henk Kombrink

July 28, 2023

Many people think that heavy oil developments are even worse than lignite, but that is not the case according to Maurice Bamford who recently gave a talk on the Pilot…

Where to drill in the Dutch offshore?

Henk Kombrink

July 6, 2023

The GEODE platform, an online viewer and database compiled by EBN and TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands – provides an overview of the exploration potential and risks associated…

Norway inches closer to opening up for deep-sea mining

Henk Kombrink

June 27, 2023

“We need minerals to succeed with the energy transition. Today, resources are controlled by a few countries, which makes us vulnerable. Seabed minerals can become a source of access to…

Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?

Henk Kombrink

June 23, 2023

Twenty years ago, the first edition of Devex took place in Aberdeen. At the time, the conference revolved around extending the life of oil and gas fields. “Not much has…

Schoonebeek oil production is on hold in the Netherlands – again

Henk Kombrink

June 16, 2023

When looking at a map of the Schoonebeek oil field and its equivalent in Germany (see below), one would almost think that the Germans and the Dutch agreed on the…

“If I do it again, I want to do it even better”

Henk Kombrink

June 15, 2023

At some point in the last few years, Anders Kihlberg asked himself: “What were the best years of my life?” Soon he came to the conclusion that it was the…

Coring the seal of a geothermal reservoir

Henk Kombrink

June 14, 2023

In the little village of Monster, which ironically translates to “sample” in Dutch, operator HVC recently completed a new geothermal well. The well targeted the Lower Cretaceous Delft Sandstone, from…

Ampfing’s flirt with the subsurface is not over yet

Henk Kombrink

June 3, 2023

There are probably not too many climate activists in the small village of Ampfing in Southern Germany, as the information plaques and monuments dedicated to the local history of oil…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Europe

Europe’s first full-scale onshore CO2 storage project

Extended reach drilling for geothermal energy production

Dutch flagship CCS project given the go-ahead in court

An analogue for carbon storage reservoirs

“It’s not difficult, it’s different”

Where to drill in the Dutch offshore?

Norway inches closer to opening up for deep-sea mining

Would Keir Starmer have changed his mind when he would have attended Devex 2023?

Schoonebeek oil production is on hold in the Netherlands – again

“If I do it again, I want to do it even better”

Coring the seal of a geothermal reservoir

Ampfing’s flirt with the subsurface is not over yet

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