North West Europe

Shallow geothermal drilling is not without risk

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…

Large licence turnover, but what’s the value added?

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…

The sequel: The hunt for Buzzard II continues

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…

A geologists’ paradise

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…

Increase risk!

“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 puncture in a geothermal seal

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…