Europe

UK Gas Shock – It Shouldn’t Be

The UK has little to no gas storage capacity and is at risk of becoming overly reliant on renewable energy to keep the lights on this winter, according to John…

Countdown to CCS

Figure 3: Three seismic sections through TGS’s 3D data over the Acorn CCS site, the Northern Endurance CCS site and a 2D line from TGS’s CFI-NSR dataset over the Northern…

Dalmatia: Where Karst Meets Coast

This famously beautiful Mediterranean coastline stretching between Montenegro’s Bay of Kotor north-west to Croatia’s Rab island, features craggy mountains, rugged islands in an azure sea, and waterfalls tumbling over travertine…

The Road to AI – Energising the E&P Experts

How are organisations ensuring human involvement and geoscience integration in developing AI algorithms and applications for the exploration and production of oil and gas resources? At DIGEX 2021, taking place…

Prospex 2020: Successfully Ensuring Communication Continues

The first fully virtual major event held by the Petroleum Society of Great Britain (PESGB) successfully brought together speakers and delegates to discuss national and international opportunities, challenges and developments…

The Dingle Peninsula: A Kerry Diamond

The locals call them ‘Kerry Diamonds’; beautifully clear, euhedral quartz crystals found in fault zones at the western end of the Dingle Peninsula in south-west Ireland – but the real…

The Red Rocks of South Pembrokeshire

The rocks which form the beautiful cliffs and beaches of south Pembrokeshire give a snapshot into the Variscan Orogen of south-west Wales. From a geological perspective the county of Pembrokeshire…

Geology-driven subsurface imaging in the Faroe-Shetland Basin

Seismic image from the Erlend Wild West survey showing two well paths: Tobermory gas discovery (left) and the Bunnehaven gas discovery (right) the latter penetrating Cretaceous sub-lava. Improved seismic imaging…

Broadband 4D Seismic Provides New Level of Detail in the Gullfaks Main Field

Understanding new details in the 4D seismic signal uncovered by a broadband time-lapse dataset at Gullfaks Main Field in the North Sea. The Gullfaks area is in Block 34/10 on…