How an oil service company is moving into renewable space
It is well known that elements such as copper, nickel and lithium are in high demand to provide materials needed for the energy transition. It is less well-known that chemical…
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Producing more from Norwegian oil fields without impacting the climate
“The answer is a definite yes”, says Ole Gunnar Tveiten, geologist at AGR, regarding the possibility for Norway to maintain oil production in the years to come and at the…
Spotted at…
A conference about digitalisation and subsurface data in Norway – it is a platform where one would mainly expect people from energy companies and the related service sector. But the…
A shallow geothermal borehole in a single day
“We’re operating five rigs continuously across the UK,” Ashley Lowthian from GreenGlove Boreholes tells me when I visit him and his colleague at a drill site in Garthdee, Aberdeen. Ashley…
Vår Energi wins Exploration Revived 2023 award
The ongoing global energy crisis has highlighted the importance of continuing to invest in oil and gas exploration in order to satisfy short- and medium-term demand as the world transitions…
Challenging ground conditions for Norwegian offshore wind
“The ocean bottom conditions on the Norwegian continental shelf are challenging and vary from place to place, so they must be examined in detail”, says Lars Jensen, geophysicist at the…
Steamy headlines do not guarantee steamy results
“The geothermal potential of Geneva is confirmed”, stated the press release that was issued by website geothermies.ch in November 2022. This headline was not the result of a successful geothermal…
Challenging old concepts: Røver South discovery
New discoveries in mature areas are still possible. This is particularly true in the area north of Troll, where Equinor and partners have now made seven discoveries since 2019. This…
UKCS – a decommissioning hotspot
In two separate social media posts this week, Tom Morgan from Well Info nicely showed why the UKCS is such an active player when it comes to decommissioning wells in…
Pensacola discovery could be one of the largest natural gas discoveries in the SNS in over a decade
The Pensacola well – 41/05a-2 – was spudded in November 2022. Deltic Energy worked up this Zechstein Hauptdolomite prospect, but with operator Shell farming in in 2019, drilling Pensacola became…
Very high level of confidence in long-term CO2 containment following injection, study finds
Deep geological storage of CO2 is safe. That could well be the main summary of an extensive report published by the UK Government last week. The UK Climate Change Committee…
Islands by night or…
In an article we recently published, Olav Walderhaug from Equinor shared his thoughts on the possible presence of a deeply buried gas source rock in the North Sea. The line…