Europe

New mineral discovery in the Norwegian Sea

Grøntua is the name of the new sulphide depos­it that was found during a trip under the auspices of the Center for Deep Sea Research at the University of Bergen…

The birth of a new play

This is a story of how subsur­face data was used in the way it should be – to incremental­ly gain a better understand­ing of how a petroleum system works. And…

Exploration geology – science or art?

During my career in the oil industry, exploration geology has changed enormously. Not long after I joined Shell in February 1979, my son, who was play school age, asked me…

Never say no

“I was born disciplined”, says Aluka at the start of the interview. “With my parents both being academics, it was no surprise that I wanted to learn”, she continues, “but…

The time of deep resistivity

Times are gone that deep resistivity tools are only being used for geo-steering. The inverted data help build geomodels, help estimate net pay thickness away from well data and see…

The geoscience of decommissioning

“ Let’s not try to sugarcoat it, it wasn’t always easy”, she continues. “The pandemic unfolded, and taking care of ho­meschooling, a full-time job and completing the university modules on…

Time-lapse gravity

Monitoring strategies for offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) cannot simply replicate those used in the oil and gas industry, which often rely on 4D seismic methods. Regulations mandate monitoring…

Geothermal energy from buried basement rocks

Closed-loop shallow geo­thermal boreholes drilled up to a depth of around 200 m are quite common in Estonia. But recently, the Geolog­ical Survey decided to embark on a project to…

The cream of the outcrop

This panorama shows an Upper Miocene succession, la Rambla de Lanujar, in the Betic Cordillera, featuring in one of our field trips to Tabernas, Almería, Spain. Apart from being a…