An exciting drilling campaign in exciting geology
Did EBN set a trend? That’s to be seen, but the four-well geothermal drilling campaign the Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency recently embarked on to prove the potential of an equal number…
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Intense exploration and appraisal in the Norwegian Barents Sea
The Norwegian Barents Sea has been the venue for a continuous campaign of exploration and appraisal over the past year. As shown in Figure 1, to date, there have been…
Discover more in Møre, Norway
Figure 2 (left): Overview map of the NVG survey (blue), NVG24 (green) and sparse OBN (black) coverage near the Norwegian coast. Figure 3 (right): Time-structure map of the top acoustic…
Geological understanding based on new data is required to unlock potential in the Vøring Basin
TGS 3D seismic data coverage in the Norwegian Sea. PGS23M02NWS GeoStreamer 3D seismic and location of composite foldout line. Outer Vøring Basin – what is required? To unlock the prospectivity…
Coring a geothermal reservoir in oil and gas heartlands
Lower Saxony, the German state that finds itself in the north-western part of the country, has a rich history in drilling and coring. But until recently, activities on that front…
Business can only get better
In anticipation of the tax changes announced by the UK government in October 2024, corporate merger and acquisition activity accelerated in 2024 and into 2025. These deals involved companies looking…
Carboniferous-Permian erosive contact, Kowala Quarry, Poland
A spectacular erosive contact between Permian continental conglomerates and Lower Carboniferous marine strata can be observed at the Kowala Quarry in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, Poland, situated in the southeastern part…
How spreading rates determine your exploration strategy
Mapped sediment thicknesses at two segments along the Mohns Ridge. Sediment thickness serves as an indicator of the age of the underlying lava flows. Illustration: Stubseid et al. 2024, Nature…
Bacterial life is everywhere in the subsurface
Elsemiek Croese. Photography: Elsemiek Croese private archive. “Let’s put it this way,” says Elsemiek Croese from Microbial Analysis, “one of the key ingredients of life is water. In that light,…
The benefits of being an oil veteran when assessing depleted fields for carbon storage
“ In some ways, knowing the reservoir storage capacity of a CCS project is even more critical than knowing the size of the same reservoir prior to gas production,” said…
Tectonically-influenced carbonate platform, Greece
A Pliocene carbonate platform (Rhodos Formation) is exposed in the NE part of the isle of Rhodes, Greece. Sedimentation was largely controlled by faulting relating to a late Pliocene or…
On drift
When we meet on Teams on a morning in March, F. Javier Hernández- Molina is calling in from his office in Granada, Spain, where he works at the Andalusian Earth…