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What is the driver for drilling two costly exploration wells offshore Bulgaria?

Jon Ford, NVentures

January 26, 2026

The spudding of wildcat Vinekh-1 in the Han Asparuh block marks the entry of Bulgaria into high-impact deepwater biogenic gas exploration in the Western Black Sea. And that’s not all,…

France’s first stimulated natural hydrogen project

Patrick Target, Stuart Lake and Ethan Lish, Vedra Hydrogen

January 22, 2026

Clean hydrogen production from electrolysis remains expensive and difficult to scale, leaving industry without the reliable, affordable supply needed for substantial decarbonisation. Vedra Hydrogen has embarked on a complementary approach:…

Will Greenland be the next oil hotspot?

Henk Kombrink

January 21, 2026

These days, it is quite common to hear that frontier exploration is a thing of the past. But what is about to happen in Greenland this year should cast some…

From cuttings to clarity: AI unlocking the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Earth Science Analytics and Rockwash Geodata

January 20, 2026

Turning archives into insight The goal is simple: Make geological cuttings not just visible, but actionable (Figure 1). Traditionally stored in boxes and rarely re-examined, these samples record the geological…

A very expensive fart in the wind

Henk Kombrink

January 15, 2026

Early December last year, Eavor announced the start of electricity production from their Geretsried deep closed-loop project in the south of Germany, near the village of Geretsried. As expected, it…

Going deeper for salt mining

Henk Kombrink

January 9, 2026

The Dutch subsurface is well known for its gas resources, hosting the world-famous Groningen field. What is less well known is that there is plenty of salt, too. These evaporites…

Where the earth yawns

Susan Fellows

December 23, 2025

I first visited Iceland a decade ago. Recently, I returned, courtesy of a European Geothermal Research project, hosted by Reykjavik Energy. We learned about heating and electricity production in Iceland,…

When your oil reservoir turns out to be a lithium deposit

István Nagy-Korodi, Consulting Geologist

December 22, 2025

As the global energy transition accelerates, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) is rising at an unprecedented pace. The list of elements essential for modern technologies – from lithium…

A “monumental deposit” or an attempt to revive coal-seam gas exploitation?

Arnout Jw Everts, Aegeo

December 10, 2025

A discovery of hydrogen in Lorraine, France, made headlines in 2023. “Hydrogen deposit of staggering proportions” and “A gigantic hydrogen deposit in northeast France” were some of the quotes. With…

Denmark to embark on an innovative geothermal drilling project

Louise Broen Larsen, Mads Sylvest Eegholm, Nikolaj Holmer Nissen, Camille Hanna, and Kim Gunn Maver, Green Therma

December 1, 2025

Green Therma, in collaboration with Aalborg Forsyning (the local utility company), is currently preparing to drill a single well to deliver geothermal heat directly to Aalborg’s district heating network. While…

A sense of urgency

Henk Kombrink

November 22, 2025

While people in Bolivia easily spend two days queuing up at fuel stations these days – the country has very quickly turned from an exporter to a net importer of…

Dead oil traces in a lonely pebble bed

Henk Kombrink

November 19, 2025

Where most exploration activity on the UK Continental Shelf took place in the North Sea, and later along the Atlantic Margin west of the Shetland Islands (WOS), it is good…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Europe

What is the driver for drilling two costly exploration wells offshore Bulgaria?

France’s first stimulated natural hydrogen project

Will Greenland be the next oil hotspot?

From cuttings to clarity: AI unlocking the Norwegian Continental Shelf

A very expensive fart in the wind

Going deeper for salt mining

Where the earth yawns

When your oil reservoir turns out to be a lithium deposit

A “monumental deposit” or an attempt to revive coal-seam gas exploitation?

Denmark to embark on an innovative geothermal drilling project

A sense of urgency

Dead oil traces in a lonely pebble bed

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