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1 week ago | 
geoexpro.com | Marzena Pyteraf |Henk Kombrink
This in what a team of researchers concluded in a paper published in the journal Geothermics this year. It must have been a bit of a surprise to find very modest heat flows and no sign of an active geothermal system at all, despite a thick succession of basalts. It wasn’t the oldest basalts either. The team drilled a total of three wells to a depth of 1,000 m.
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1 week ago | 
geoexpro.com | Marzena Pyteraf |Henk Kombrink
Red city of Abyaneh in Iran near Isfahan. Photography: pop_gino via Adobe Stock. It is easy to focus on the oil and gas exploration hotspots of the world, where news around discoveries or the completion of a dry hole is guaranteed for attention from those following the industry. But what about areas that do not feature in the news that much? Iran is one of those countries you normally don’t hear a lot from.
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1 week ago | 
geoexpro.com | Henk Kombrink
“Why would we still explore for oil and gas?” asked René Jonk from ACT GEO at the end of his talk for the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain this week. René, a seasoned explorer and geologist, put this question to the audience after giving an overview of how exploration over the past decades has also depended on elements of luck. The discovery of the Golden Lane in the Suriname-Guyana Basin is an example of luck.
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2 weeks ago | 
geoexpro.com | Henk Kombrink
Almost a month ago, Sintana Energy “broke” the news that Australian major Woodside decided not to exercise its right to farm into Licence PEL 87 in Namibian waters, north of the Mopane discovery. The decision did not cause a lot of stir, possibly because it was not a relinquishment as such.
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3 weeks ago | 
geoexpro.com | Henk Kombrink
Libya, long regarded as one of Africa’s most geologically rich petroleum provinces, is re-emerging with renewed focus and ambition. After years of underinvestment, geopolitical instability, and widespread field shut-ins, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) is actively working to reposition the country as a key energy partner on the global stage, underpinned by ambitious production growth targets.
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3 weeks ago | 
geoexpro.com | Marzena Pyteraf |Henk Kombrink
If I fail to hear back from companies when enquiring for information about a project, I mostly decide not to write about it at all. But in the case of Eavor, I think it is worth dedicating a piece to it. An article in the Merkur newspaper in Germany namely suggested that changes had been made to the drilling program, but details were not disclosedFirst of all, we asked the drilling company involved, KCA Deutag, if they could share some information about the project.
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3 weeks ago | 
geoexpro.com | Marzena Pyteraf |Henk Kombrink
“The times of gurus telling younger staff how to plough through a seismic volume and what to interpret is over,” says Herman van Nieuwoudt from Bluware. Herman started as the company’s President in November last year, after a long career mainly with Baker Hughes in which he spent time in numerous countries across the world. “With the current advance of how specialists can interact with interpretation software, such as the InteractivAI tool we have been developing, everybody can do the job quickly.
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4 weeks ago | 
geoexpro.com | Marzena Pyteraf |Henk Kombrink
The Munich area in Germany is lucky when it comes to its geothermal potential. There is a good Upper Jurassic carbonate reservoir at the right depth, and the water composition is also favourable when it comes to scaling and corrosion. “However, even though we don’t have the same challenges with scaling as projects have elsewhere, we still face them,” says Benedikt Broda from Stadtwerke München (SWM).
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1 month ago | 
geoexpro.com | Marzena Pyteraf |Henk Kombrink
“Let’s get this straight,” Benoît Matha says at the start of our conversation on a Friday morning in February, “the subsurface upstream business is not a big data environment.” It is one of the insights that comes with having worked in other sectors, as Benoît did before he joined Eliis five years ago. “In retail, huge amounts of data are being generated; seismic and well data are definitely not big data, also because of the secrecy that is so often associated with it,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
geoexpro.com | Henk Kombrink
“The Guyana of Alaska’s North Slope.” Bill Armstrong, CEO of the exploration company that carries his own name, has been quite bullish about the potential of the Brookian delta-top play in Alaska. And when reading the press release related to the Sockeye discovery issued last week, one would think it is not unfounded either. However, there are still a few things to iron out. Here is a short reflection on the Sockeye discovery.
