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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Europe

Dolomite-limestone alternations – from outcrop to 3D model

Wolfgang Blendinger and Edwin Meißner
While rock climbers try to avoid the thin, porous and microfractured dolomites, geologists involved with reservoir characterization go to great length in order to give a detailed account of their…

Managing the future

Halfdan Carstens
History-matching of reservoir simulation models,meaning adjusting and optimising the simulation model based on observed production data, has been a complex and time consuming task for the industry for years. MEPO…

Incredibly Cheap

Halfdan Carstens
A total of 45 production licenses were just recently awarded in mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf. The companies have been offered participating interests in 73 blocks or parts…

Sand intrusions reveal increased reserves

Halfdan Carstens
Highly permeable sand bodies injected into low permeability shales may provide additional reserves to existing discoveries and fields if properly recognized. Such sandstones, a product of postdepositional remobilisation, may also…

Kristin – a tough lady

Halfdan Carstens
A deeply buried reservoir – characterised by ultrahigh pore pressures and temperatures – represent a major challenge for both petroleum and drilling engineers. To minimise risk and maximise the collaborative…

Chalk – multipurpose use

Halfdan Carstens and Tore Karlsson
White chalk, forming spectacular cliffs, is found outcropping in England, Denmark as well as France. For the layman these cliffs are favoured attractions on holidays, for geologists they constitute excellent…

Representing Geoscience for Over 200 Years

GEO ExPro
Will the oldest Geological Society in the world continue its mission and if so, where will its home be? The Geological Society was inaugurated in 1807 at a dinner at…

Scotland’s Energy Mix

Nick Cottam
A quick look at Scotland’s energy mix. Parked oil platform viewed from Nigg Ferry. Credit: Nick Cottam.Take the Nigg Ferry in Scotland across to Cromarty and there is plenty of…

Future of European Oil and Gas Licensing

GEO ExPro
The two major oil and gas producers in northern Europe appear to be on slightly different trajectories when it comes to their approach to future exploitation of their continental shelves.…

Secure, Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

Kirsty Simpson; RWM Ltd
What skills can oil and gas geoscientists contribute to the UK’s delivery of a long term solution to nuclear waste? Nuclear power generation has been part of the United Kingdom’s…

Working Petroleum Systems Offshore Montenegro

Tiago Cunha, Laura Milne; Integrated Geochemical Interpretation (IGI, Ltd.) and Leonidas Gouliotis, George Panagopoulos, Panagiotis Konstantopoulos, Dennis Anestoudis; Energean.
Evidence for working petroleum systems offshore Montenegro as new geochemical information reveals the presence of an oil-prone Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous source rock on The Dalmatian platform. The Dalmatian platform offshore…

A Carbon-Free Russia: Barriers and Opportunities

Jane Whaley
Russia has ample oil and gas reserves to both supply energy to all its people and earn huge revenues from exporting fossil fuels, so what incentives are there for it…