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Are National Oil Companies the answer to addressing security of supply concerns across the North Sea?

April 17, 2024

“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.…

A geologists’ paradise

Henk Kombrink

April 11, 2024

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!

Ronny Setså

April 9, 2024

“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…

Mineral resource estimates for Nordic waters expose different lines of thinking between major Norwegian institutions

Henk Kombrink

April 3, 2024

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 this case, we’d rather find the smallest prospect”

Henk Kombrink

March 29, 2024

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…

A puncture in a geothermal seal

Henk Kombrink

March 28, 2024

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 should have looked at that regional seismic line with more care before signing off on a plan for drilling”

Bryan Lovell - University of Cambridge

March 26, 2024

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.…

Wind and solar energy – temporarily stored in a salt cavern

Henk Kombrink

March 19, 2024

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…

Bouma and Tybalt

Marcos Asensio

March 14, 2024

The Bouma sequence, proposed by Arnold Bouma, has been a cornerstone in the interpretation of turbidites and high-density sediment currents since its publication in 1962. The Bouma sequence is a…

Shallow geothermal energy production may soon be more important than deep geothermal energy production in the Netherlands

Henk Kombrink

March 12, 2024

It is a development that is not often talked about or highlighted in the media, but data on subsurface energy production using water as a carrier clearly shows how important…

Not as straight as we sometimes think

Henk Kombrink

February 22, 2024

Of course, field observations have long shown that faults are not the perfectly straight lines we often see in schematic cross-sections. However, subsurface data do not always allow the detailed…

Unlocking Permian and Carboniferous petroleum systems of the Southern North Sea

Patrick Barnard - APT

February 21, 2024

The northern part of the UK Southern North Sea (SNS) and the adjacent Mid North Sea High (MNSH) have seen a recent revival when it comes to exploration activity, with…

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