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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

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Shallow gas: How to better map the risk?

Francis Buckley, Geophysicist
Shallow gas has long been known as a drilling hazard. However, the increasing costs of powering offshore produc­tion facilities, the problems associat­ed with decommissioning, and the contribution of natural and…

Is there a coal exploration industry?

Henk Kombrink
If oil and gas are dirty words when talking about energy, it is even more dangerous to mention the c*** word. However, despite the rapidly rising share of renewables in…

Every site is different

Henk Kombrink
James Horton at a closed loop manifold installation at Birmingham’s Moseley Hall Hospital. Source: James Horton. Shallow closed loop boreholes (150-300 m deep) for ground source heat pumps (GSHP) are…

How AI-based image analysis of cuttings enables better reservoir definition

Ezdeen Ibrahim, Bapco Upstream, Guy M. Oliver And Milton Sanclemente, Geolog
With the advance of new AI-based tech­nologies, drill cut­ting data can now be quickly and consistently analyzed and interpreted to better characterize the subsurface. Working together with Bapco Upstream, we…

The Caribbean

Jonathan Leather, NVentures
The presence of oil in the Caribbean has long been known, and has successful­ly been explored for across the region – with producing fields in Cuba, Barbados, and the Carib­bean…

Eyes wide open at the right time

Henk Kombrink
“I took the most jagged path into the oil business, as you can imagine,” says Henry S. Pettingill. “There was noth­ing for me to identify myself with the oil industry,…

Getting drill-ready for the energy transition

Henk Kombrink
Frank van Bergen “If you don’t include the subsur­face in the journey towards reducing CO2 emissions, it will be impossible to reach net zero”, says Frank van Bergen. Frank heads…

The evolution of managed pressure drilling

Henk Kombrink
Nick Ward “Managed pressure drilling (MPD) has been around for a long time”, says Nick Ward when we meet in his office in Tullos, Aberdeen. Nick oversees the MPD business…