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…
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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…
Translating and expansional McMurray point bars
In the captivating world of sedimentary geology, point bars offer a window into the dynamic processes sculpting fluvial and near-coastal landscapes. The classical model of (expansional) point bars is best…
What it takes to organize a conference
“As a geoscientist, it is very rewarding and useful to help shape a conference like IMAGE”, says Daniel Sutton when we catch up at the fringe of the exhibition floor.…
Dry helium well supplies the beverage industry
The USA is by far the world’s largest geological CO2 producer, extracted from a small number of high – CO2 reservoirs. The vast majority of this CO2, 97 %, is…