Applications for the current UK Licensing Round reveal a focus on gas
As Paul de Leeuw from Robert Gordon University noted during the panel session at a Westwood Energy event in Aberdeen last week: “Before the COP26 Conference in Glasgow, new oil…
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A star to enable safer CO₂ storage
It forms a wonderful pattern, NORSAR‘s new array NORFOX, which is buried deep in the forest on Løten, Norway. However, it is not particularly visible. Some long tracks and a…
A geothermal gold rush
When it comes to producing geothermal energy, Munich is without a doubt the place to be in Germany. As the map here clearly shows, the city is dotted by wells…
inApril successfully completes first project of the North Sea season
The initial nodes from the company’s rental pool have already seen successful service on one North Sea project and are now being deployed on a second for a different OBN…
Can Aberdeen become a center for minerals needed for the energy transition?
On a rainy day in March, on a quiet countryside road north of the village of Ellon in Aberdeenshire, northeast Scotland, I am welcomed by geologist Drew Craig from Aberdeen…
The love of reducing complexity
Displayed in a corridor near the reception at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in Stavanger is a five meter long glass print of a Late Devonian core from the Embla field.…
A national team for increased knowledge in the deep sea
“This is collaboration across disciplines, and both industry and academia are involved in order to utilise the expertise we have in Norway”, said Anette Broch Mathisen Tvedt, CEO of Adepth…
Dynamic Matching FWI + rEEI makes a difference to your interpretation
Gas to Europe: Refocusing exploration efforts in the Atlantic Margins According to the World Economic Forum, Europe has enough gas for the first quarter of 2023. However, there is no…
A significant gas discovery at the right time
“Norway is the gift that keeps on giving,” said DNO’s Executive Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani in a press release last week, when the discovery of gas and condensate in well 35/10-10A…
Nature’s microplastics
Palynologists are palaeontologists who specialise in microfossils composed of acid-resistant carbon-hydrogen-oxygen biopolymer. In other words, their fossils are nature’s microplastics. Resistant to almost anything diagenesis can throw at them, fossil…
Is it only the windfall tax to blame?
The recently imposed windfall tax by the UK Government has made many oil and gas players decide to postpone, cancel or reroute investments elsewhere. For instance, Total UK announced that…
Norwegian Continental Shelf not yet creaming
Whilst the call for more frontier exploration and the associated likelihood that bigger fields are being found is getting louder, it is important not to forget that infrastructure-led exploration is…