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…
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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…
Ten Reasons why 3D Geo-modeling and Flow Simulation Must Be Integrate
Flow simulation is the reservoir engineer’s tool of predilection, providing understanding of how fluid flows through the reservoir and how it can optimally be extracted. 3D Geo Modeling and Flow…
Revolutionising History Matching and Uncertainty Assessment
When planning future production, new technology that replaces manual history matching of reservoir models represents a key advance for reservoir engineering. Revolutionising History Matching and Uncertainty Assessment
Understanding fault facies improves reservoir modeling
By introducing the concept of fault facies, a new research project aims to arrive at a more realistic way of representing faults and fault properties in the subsurface. The result…
Breakthrough for repeated seismic
The installation of a permanent seismic array in the Norwegian Valhall field enables the operator to run frequent 4D re-shoots, and the amount of oil to be recovered may increase…