Are we moving into the age of the pore space paradox?
Whilst the people at E3 Lithium in Canada will no doubt support the road to Net Zero, they were not very pleased to see the company Enhance receiving a permit…
North America
The vast brushlands of West Texas and New Mexico hold a miracle
Nestled in the vast brushlands of West Texas and New Mexico, the Permian Basin quietly outstrips the oil production of countries like Iraq, Iran, or Canada, a fact that often…
Rejuvenating legacy seismic for screening carbon storage sites in the Gulf of Mexico
A major challenge in the US Gulf of Mexico is transforming disparate public datasets into a quality-controlled database. CGG has successfully created and used a database for its Storage Play…
Don’t forget to look deeper
As oil and gas geoscientists, we often focus on the reservoir we are targeting. Seldom do we consider what might be happening deeper, especially in basement rocks. However, what happens…
Analysing a hydraulically fractured horizontal core to assess refrac candidates
Is a refrac worth the investment? That is what we investigated in an extensive study. A key piece of data in the study included a horizontal core adjacent to a…
After four years of production, what is the verdict?
Whilst drilling of Eavor’s landmark geothermal closed-loop drilling project in southern Germany has reached the deepest point this week, the company also released a report summarising the past four years…
The economics of geothermal pumped well power projects
Geothermal pumped well projects provide power to the grid at a contract price and terms negotiated with the power off-taker. This can vary significantly from country to country, but as…
Textbook geology
This panoramic photo shows the El Gordo Anticline plunging in the subsurface towards the right of the image where, unseen, the El Gordo Diapir crops out. The El Gordo Anticline…
Natural fracture networks are not created equal
Natural fracture networks are not created equal. In a tight reservoir, they may enhance the permeability and give production an upside. In a porous reservoir, a natural fracture network may…
Revealing a promising new play concept in the Salar Basin, offshore Canada
Joint PGS/TGS MultiClient data library. The study area is located in the Salar Basin. The South Bank 3D survey is shown in orange. Estimating reliable earth properties using PGS Ultima…
Keeping an eye on the Cuban part of the GOM
The island of Cuba has a rich history of oil and gas exploration, dating back as far as the 1860s when commercial discoveries of heavy oil were found. The first…
Doing it differently
Approved in 2002, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada, US, looked to become the country’s final destination for high-level radioactive waste for quite a few years. Until 2011,…