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Picking prospects: Exploring the Orchard Platform’s Haupt Dolomite play

Peter Browning-Stamp and Carlo Caldarelli, Horizon Energy Partners

February 5, 2025

The UK mid North Sea High (MNSH) can be considered as one of the least explored hydrocarbon provinces on the UK Continental Shelf. Early drilling campaigns targeted pre-Permian structures, with…

A blow for the Zechstein play

Henk Kombrink

November 25, 2021

The discovery of oil in the Zechstein Hauptdolomite of the Ossian prospect (42/4-1Z) in 2019 triggered a significant amount of interest from the industry. After all, could oil be the…

A new phase for the SNS Zechstein play

Henk Kombrink

March 30, 2021

With Shell now setting a date for the Pensacola prospect to be drilled, the Zechstein play continues to be in the spotlight.

Draupner Energy keen to move forward high-impact prospects

Henk Kombrink

December 15, 2020

A Zechstein oil discovery in the nearby Ossian-Darach well, an onshore find (West Newton), Shell farming in to another Zechstein prospect and further proof of a mature Zechstein source rock…

TNO and BGS dives into the Paleozoic of the North Sea

Terje Solbakk

January 24, 2020

In a recent initiative, the geological surveys of Netherland (TNO) and UK (BGS) has dived into the Pre-Permian plays of the southern and central North Sea, also including the Norwegian,…

Zechstein play on the NCS: is it worth exploring?

Liesbeth Breesch

April 5, 2019

The Southern Zechtstein Basin produces a lot of hydrocarbons from gas field in the Netherlands, UK and Poland. The Northern Basin is in comparison underexplored but not very successful up…

Tulip Oil starts gas production in Dutch North Sea

Liesbeth Breesch

February 18, 2019

Tulip Oil Netherlands Offshore announces the start-up and commissioning of the Q10 offshore gas development in the Dutch North Sea, only 15 months after taking the Final Investment Decision (FID).…

Shell farm-in to licenses in the southern North Sea

Liesbeth Breesch

February 8, 2019

Shell will acquire a 70% working interest in Licence P2252 from Cluff Natural Resources and will be appointed licence operator. In addition, Shell has the option to acquire a 50%…

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Picking prospects: Exploring the Orchard Platform’s Haupt Dolomite play

A blow for the Zechstein play

A new phase for the SNS Zechstein play

Draupner Energy keen to move forward high-impact prospects

TNO and BGS dives into the Paleozoic of the North Sea

Zechstein play on the NCS: is it worth exploring?

Tulip Oil starts gas production in Dutch North Sea

Shell farm-in to licenses in the southern North Sea

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