The hottest play in Canada
At the IMAGE Conference in August 2024, I met some wellsite geologists from Calgary. They were the first to tell me about the Clearwater Formation and that drilling has been…
North America
Sockeye – The discovery that was supposed to be made last year
“The Guyana of Alaska’s North Slope.” Bill Armstrong, CEO of the exploration company that carries his own name, has been quite bullish about the potential of the Brookian delta-top play…
Basalt as a CO2 storage reservoir
Harnessing a natural process, mineralization of CO2 is the process by which primary and secondary minerals such as Mg, Fe, and Ca present in basalts interact with CO2-enriched fluids to…
Pushing the limits of tracer technology
Utah FORGE project. Photography: Resman Energy Technology. “The conventional oil and gas industry has been familiar with tracer technology for a long time,” says Roy Greig from RESMAN Energy Technology.…
New hydrogen prospectivity map released for the USA
“For decades, the conventional wisdom was that naturally occurring hydrogen did not accumulate in sufficient quantities to be used for energy purposes,” says Sarah Ryker, United States Geological Survey (USGS)…
Devonian reefs – Canada
The Early to Middle Devonian was a period of global evolution of carbonate coral and stromatoporoid reef builders. Many carbonate build-ups of that age are observed around the world in…
Finding the right store for CO2 can lead to very different outcomes
It happens quite regularly that people’s surname seem to be closely linked to the profession they operate in. This certainly applies to Alexander Bump from the University of Texas in…
Finding a hotspot in Alaska
Domestic gas production in Alaska’s Cook Inlet is declining rapidly, and for that reason, there is now an incentive to further increase the share of renewable energy. One candidate to…
Monetizing the geothermal resource
“The Client we work with in Dakota at the moment applied fans to cool the produced fluids from their assets before it was piped away. Now, we extract the heat…
Helium found in new and unexpected places
In Finland, 80 Mile positively tested copper-zinc exploration boreholes, while Pulsar Helium has drilled an appraisal well in Minnesota after nickel exploration accidentally found helium. In South Africa, Renergen is…
3 million versus 100 k
Once large-scale CO2 injection projects will hopefully ramp up, monitoring injection will be an essential part of the workflow. And because the carbon storage business will never be a commercial…
The exposed Interior Seaway – Just layer cake geology?
If anything, long and continuous outcrops often suggest that geology is much more varied in a vertical than in a horizontal direction. This beautiful photo from the Bisti Badlands in…