Using old wells as gravitational energy storage devices
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,…
North America
Leslie Kimberlite core
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 Prospective Foresets Situated Below a Polar River
In August last year, Australia-based Santos decided to develop the Pikka discovery on the North Slope of Alaska. It was not Santos that discovered the field, which contains almost 400…