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Offshore Algarve Basin geological carbon storage potential

In the Algarve Basin, two late Mi­ocene plays have been identified southeast of the Faro Peninsula using high-quality seismic and bore­hole data (Figure 1). These comprise of high-porosity turbiditic sands…

Norway’s AlphaGo moment: Why 2025 changed the game

In 2016, Google’s AlphaGo played “Move 37” against Lee Sedol – a move that looked bafflingly wrong to human experts but ultimate­ly secured the win. In 2025, the Norwegian Continental…

Norway stumbles at the finish line

On the night of December 3, 2025, Norwegian parliament re-ached an agreement on the state budget for 2026. One point in the budget agree­ment reads as follows: The parliament asks…

The Black Sea is back

The region took a huge leap forward in 2020 when the Turkish state energy compa­ny Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO) announced the gi­ant Tuna-1 gas discovery in the west­ern basin…

A greenprint for deep sea copper exploration

The Semenov hydrothermal fields along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 13° N, the same lati­tude as Senegal and Nicaragua, boast the world’s largest known Sea­floor Massive Sulphide (SMS) deposits, with a…

Progress over perfection

The Norwegian continental shelf offers a wealth of opportunities for new industries alongside and after oil, and car­bon capture and storage (CCS) has gained a solid foothold. Northern Lights has…

Layer cake geology and a lack of grid access

A few years ago, I asked a seasoned wellsite geol­ogist about the biggest subsurface surprise she had ever seen over her long career working on rigs. Rather than coming up…