It is not every day that geological expertise is brought to the Supreme Court. Late last year, Norway’s highest court dealt with a claim for compensation for subsidence damage to…
There has been significant coverage in the news about the latest UK licensing round. To backtrack, the 33rd Offshore Licensing Round officially opened on 7 October 2022 with applications closing…
Harry Dye, Matt England, Henry Morris – Finder Energy
The prospect is located in the Peterhead Graben, a sub-basin in the geographically more extensive ‘South Halibut Basin’, home to numerous Upper Jurassic fields and discoveries of which the giant…
“Many countries in the West have deliberately moved from being carnivores to vegans if that analogy can be used for the energy system”, someone recently told me at a conference.…
The hotel kindly hosting the Aberdeen evening lectures organised by the GESGB should have looked at the programme before deciding not to man the bar last night. The talk was…
“Have we run out of new ideas?”, asked Kjersti Dahle from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) rhetorically during her keynote speech at the NCS Exploration Strategy conference in Stavanger last…
A debate has recently unfolded around how much copper – and related metals – are present in Norway’s mid-oceanic ridge system, an area where mining could take place in the…
In the continued discussion around the poor state of exploration drilling in the UK versus all those wells that are being drilled in Norwegian waters, it is so easy to…
More than fifteen years ago, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) was one of the first institutions in the Netherlands to come up with the idea to warm their premises…
We, geologists, have the primacy of observation of rocks dinned into us during our earliest work in the field, with that message then reinforced by later events in our lives.…
One of the major challenges for the energy transition is the storage of excess energy that can be used at times when the wind does not blow or the sun…