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…
North America
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…
A critical look at Fervo dataset suggests lower output
In July 2023, Fervo made public a pre-print containing plots and analyses of a well test in Nevada related to their project Red. This allows for a more detailed analysis…
A leak – but what next?
The E&E News website, part of Politico, recently published the news that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a violation notice to the operator of the Decatur CCS project…
Disentangling a deep oil play
Over the course of 10 years, Shell had ample reasons to walk away from the Norphlet play in the GOM. Deeply buried, this Upper Jurassic system was always near the…
A huff-and-puff reservoir
“I would not be in this business if we would not think we can produce competitively priced energy”, said Mike Eros from Sage Geosystems during his talk in the Geothermal…
Deep-water Delaware
The featured photo shows a road cut in the Permian (Guadalupian) Brushy Canyon Formation off US Highway 62/180 in the foreground. The west-facing exposure, with the Delaware Mountains in the…