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CO₂ leakage out of a reservoir should be accepted as a risk

August 8, 2023

Rather than telling people that no CO2 will ever leak from a subsurface reservoir, geoscientists should rather use their expertise to explain that there are always risks associated with drilling…

Using old wells as gravitational energy storage devices

Henk Kombrink

July 21, 2023

The ticket item in the energy transition is the efficient buffering of energy in order to overcome the intermittent nature of solar and wind. Old wells can help with that,…

Leslie Kimberlite core

Barrett Elliott, Northwest Territories Geological Survey

July 18, 2023

The history of diamond exploration in the Northwest Territories began in 1981 with Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson sampling the Mountain Diatreme in the Mackenzie Mountains. While this prospect did…

Directional drilling is going Wild

Henk Kombrink

July 10, 2023

Twitter can be a good source of information as to what is going in the oil and gas sector, especially in the US. There are a few people from the…

How to attract the majors?

Henk Kombrink

June 9, 2023

When it comes to finding new oil and gas fields, there’s not much that can beat the excitement of frontier exploration. Drilling wells in areas where no one has gone…

The slick anomalies that led to the drilling of Ephesus

Henk Kombrink

June 5, 2023

The Ephesus prospect – or Cape Freels as it is called by OILCO – lies in the western part of the Orphan Basin. This basin finds its origin in the…

Sands and source rock delivered by the Tangier WAZ3D in the current Nova Scotia Licence Round

Karyna Rodriguez and Neil Hodgson, Searcher

May 15, 2023

Map showing Blocks available in the 2022-2023 Bid Round and available seismic data from Searcher. Evidence-based exploration on the slope of Nova Scotia In his definitive book on the form,…

This is why Ephesus is a well to watch

Henk Kombrink

May 11, 2023

Sometimes a map says more than a lengthy story. That is the case here. We plotted the exploration wells drilled on the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf on a bathymetric map…

Characterising CCUS sites: Legacy data – Powered by machine learning

Geoex MCG, Earth Science Analytics and BVGS

April 17, 2023

AOI with conditioned, integrated data, extent ranges from High Island to Brazos. The US GoM and beyond A clear candidate for CCUS is the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM).…

Geothermal development programs in Alaska

Guy Oliver, GEOLOG

April 13, 2023

Alaska’s Mount Spurr and Mount Augustine are two active stratovolcanoes closely monitored by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO). Despite their geothermal potential, these volcanoes have yet to be fully explored…

First exploration well targeting hydrogen successful, but will it be economic?

Mariel Reitsma

February 5, 2023

Although the hydrogen energy industry as a whole is advancing at a rapid pace, the exploration for natural occurring hydrogen is still in its infancy. Yet, change seems around the…

An Onshore CCS Debacle

Henk Kombrink

February 1, 2023

The owners of the Petra Nova CO2 plant, built at a Coal Power Station in Texas, went for it. Rather than constructing a 60 Mwe facility according to the first…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

North America

CO₂ leakage out of a reservoir should be accepted as a risk

Using old wells as gravitational energy storage devices

Leslie Kimberlite core

Directional drilling is going Wild

How to attract the majors?

The slick anomalies that led to the drilling of Ephesus

Sands and source rock delivered by the Tangier WAZ3D in the current Nova Scotia Licence Round

This is why Ephesus is a well to watch

Characterising CCUS sites: Legacy data – Powered by machine learning

Geothermal development programs in Alaska

First exploration well targeting hydrogen successful, but will it be economic?

An Onshore CCS Debacle

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