A new seabed minerals frontier emerges
American Samoa is emerging as a new potential frontier for seabed minerals, joining global players like Japan, India, and Norway in the race to commence seafloor mineral extraction. In April,…
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The greater Caribbean Basin synthesis: Exploring the bigger picture using modern reprocessed data
Understanding the Caribbean – discoveries confirmed, potential growing The Caribbean has a long-standing history of hydrocarbon exploration, with most activity occuring within the region of Trinidad. Here, numerous gas fields…
The bit boy has gone
The Canadian oil sector has changed dramatically in a matter of 20 years. Back in the early 2000’s, vertical drilling was very much common good, but these days, you would…
HyTerra hits hydrogen – but will it be like a soda going flat?
Natural hydrogen exploration is currently a hot topic, but few companies have advanced from initial exploration to the drilling stage. HyTerra is one notable exception. This week, the company drilled…
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…
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…