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Norwegian North Sea: Identifying details of Lower Cretaceous sand fairways on the Måløy Slope

Irina Pene, Silje Rogne, Jaswinder Mann-Kalil and Marit Stokke Bauck, Viridien

June 26, 2024

Left: Map showing location of Viridien’s Northern Viking Graben (NVG) datasets. Single-azimuth reimaging was performed on the NVG data in the area outlined by the yellow polygon. The seismic section,…

The gas blowout that continues to have an effect even after almost 60 years

Henk Kombrink

June 24, 2024

The discovery of the Groningen gas field in 1959 led to a flurry of drilling activity in the Netherlands and surrounding countries in a quest for more gas. It is…

New GeoStreamer X multi-azimuth seismic dataset in the Norwegian Sea unlocks new prospectivity

Marcin Przywara, Stefan Möller and Jens Beenfeldt, PGS

June 10, 2024

The GeoStreamer X 2022 survey is shown in orange, highlighting the location of the line displayed. The survey area for the GeoStreamer X 2023 survey and the 2024 programs is…

Hydrogen storage in a depleted gas reservoir – how easy is that?

Henk Kombrink

June 5, 2024

“When Rough was under natural gas production and later as a gas storage facility, the geology was not considered to be particularly important ”, said Katharine Howell from Exceed during…

Another pressure plot without values

Henk Kombrink

June 3, 2024

It is the third time in a matter of a few months that a pressure plot was shown during a carbon storage presentation without values on the vertical axis –…

The Belgians are coming

Henk Kombrink

May 30, 2024

Belgium has not been particularly lucky when the North Sea was divided up into sectors belonging to the nations surrounding its coast. No oil or gas has ever been found…

Making a case for domestic oil and gas production

Henk Kombrink

May 28, 2024

Oil and gas currently provide 76% of the total energy consumed in the UK. As the energy transition progresses, this will decline, but even in the most aggressive demand reduction…

The Danish Energy Island

Martin Bak Hansen, Louise Sandberg Sørensen and Jens Solberg-Larsen, Energinet, Ana Maia and Henrique Duarte, GeoSurveys and Bruno Stuyts and Esben Dalgaard, SolidGround

May 27, 2024

Bridging the gap between seismic acquisition and geotechnical parameterisation How a Portuguese and Danish consortium took on the challenge to map and characterise the shallow and deep subsurface for the…

“The best recipe for a business adventure to succeed is not to have a plan B”

Henk Kombrink

May 17, 2024

Would you re-mortgage your house to invest in an oilfield development because you simply believe in it? Yes, good on you. Would you still do it when a major says…

Supporting the search for large scale carbon storage sites

Nick Lee, Bill Powell, Tilman Kluver and Cyrille Reiser, PGS

May 8, 2024

The role of the seismic industry in delivering successful CCS scale-up The seismic industry has, for a long time, been involved in helping to support the development and successful operation…

“With [DUG MP-FWI Imaging] we have taken a huge step forward.”

DUG

May 7, 2024

Interview with Tor Åkermoen – CEO Europe Geoex MCG DUG: Tell us a little bit about your seismic data? Tor: Well, Geoex MCG, along with our partners, recently acquired two…

TotalEnergies to drill an infill well on Culzean less than 2 years after OBN acquisition

Henk Kombrink

May 3, 2024

One of the most important roles of conference chairs is to build a programme that ensures people want to stay until the bitter end of the last day. At Seismic…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective