The production chemistry challenges of geothermal energy
“The geothermal industry requires a much tighter control on scale formation than the oil and gas industry”, said Peter Wilkie from Roemex in a talk delivered during SPE’s online Geothermal…
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Cutting data – please handle with care!
“It’s not precise at all, so please handle with care”, is one of the first things Anita Hansen tells me when we meet on Teams. We spoke about working with…
“I got kind of bored and underutilised sitting on the sidelines “refreshing” job pages”
“I decided to put my work out there and keep myself active, rather than just reposting work from others”, Jamie Vinnels wrote in an email. Jamie has been compiling subsurface…
Three small countries with little gas left
The daily news in the E&P sector is obviously focused on success stories. New finds in the East Med, the first shipment of LNG from Mozambique or another oil discovery…
Finding Hidden SMS Deposits
“Metalliferous sediments are important deep-sea exploration targets,” said Acer Figueroa, PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre (University of Southampton) during the Deep Sea Minerals conference in Bergen in October…
Microfossils and the World of Chalk and Chert
Microfossils are those fossils that require a microscope to carry out fundamental identification. They are the fossils of a biologically diverse group of organisms, including microscopic algae, protists, and invertebrates,…
The most cost-effective way of monitoring CO2 injection
The business case for Carbon Sequestration and Storage is challenging, and that is the reason why there is a huge drive to come up with ideas to carry out the…
Palynology reinvented
An old technique re-imagined and reducing uncertainty in CCS sites. Palynology Reinvented Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial and power sources and storing it in subsurface geological formations is an…
Maximising the potential of seismic expressions
Spectral decomposition methods are widely used to highlight geological features according to their frequency content. However, the frequencies characterising the targeted event might vary spatially, which complicates their extraction as…
Evaluating Fluid Drainage Dynamics in Resource Plays
In this article we discuss how fluid chemistry can be deployed to directly confirm or refine the assumptions made when optimising developments in hydrocarbon production from resource plays.
Multiclient Seismic Data
While hydrocarbon resources are said to be scarce nowadays, it is comforting to know that there are still many unexplored geological provinces around the world. In fact, it is sometimes…
“Land Plants Didn’t Evolve Until the Silurian”
If you were to ask my wife when plants first evolved, she would answer without hesitation (in a mock pompous voice) “land plants didn’t evolve until the Silurian”! She is…