Iceland. Harnessing the Earth.
Iceland is one of the pioneers in the use of geothermal energy, both for heating homes and generating electricity. Iceland is a country shaped by and reliant on its geology…
Europe
The Atlantic Road A Metamorphic Journey
The Atlantic Road, one of the National Tourist Roads of Norway, offers great scenery all year around. ‘“I’ve never met a morph that I didn’t like,” I say, repeating a…
The Next Generation of Petroleum Geoscientists
Royal Holloway, University of London recently celebrated 30 years of their MSc course in Petroleum Geoscience. To mark the occasion, they hosted a 30 year Celebratory Symposium with speakers comprising…
Croatia’s 2016 Licence Round. A second bite at the Big Apple
Stunning Potential Offshore Croatia Integration of seismic, well and potential field data has led to a better understanding of the petroleum system of the Adriatic Basin. The Adriatic Basin is a prolific hydrocarbon province…
Ireland: South Porcupine Basin
The Porcupine Basin The South Porcupine Basin contains all the elements for a successful petroleum system. The Porcupine Basin is related to Mesozoic extension across north-west Europe and the break-up…
Why Norway?
For more than ten years, Norway has attracted small- and intermediate-sized companies because of favourable geological and fiscal conditions. An uplift in the tax system may now reduce the majors’…
Nailing the Truth
Shale Gas and Fracking: The Science Behind The Controversy Michael Stevenson. Elsevier, 2015 Published in 2015, this 150-page book is an up-to-date review of this new energy source from a…
The Quantification of Uncertainty in Reservoir Management
New developments in history matching improve uncertainty quantification and risk assessment in reservoir management. Improving the analysis of risk in field management is the Holy Grail of reservoir modelling and in…
‘Strata’ Smith Enters the Digital Age
A new website celebrates the bicentenary of the first geological map of England and Wales in 1815. The 1st of August 2015 marks the bicentenary of the publication of a map…
Russian Fold Belts: The Next Hot Play?
Three successful cycles of petroleum reserve build-up can be recognised in the history of Russian petroleum exploration. Could the fold belts be the basis of the next cycle? After decades…
Gabon: Some Hope for Gas
Eni has made a significant gas and condensate discovery with an exploration well testing the Nyonie Deep prospect in Block D4, approximately 13 km from the coast and 48 km from Libreville, the capital of…
Malta
A country shaped by limestone (and a bit of very old poo). If one word could sum up the Mediterranean island nation of Malta, it would be ‘limestone’. Limestone has…