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What happened in block 34/4 before Dugong was found?
As drilling on Dugong is about to resume soon, John Wood looks back at the exploration history of the area north of Snorre. [...]
Deformation Bands – Bad news for your reservoir?
Structural Geologist Steve Ogilvie explains the origin and characteristics of a frequently observed structural phenomenon. [...]
Maintaining production: the challenge for Central North Sea Triassic fields
Triassic fields in the ETAP cluster and J-block of the Central North Sea produce well initially but don’t deliver in the long run. [...]
Renaissance of salt tectonics in the Central North Sea
Team of experts aims to further unlock Late Permian and Triassic exploration and storage potential. [...]
NCS exploration delivers good results
The NCS Exploration Strategy 2020 conference took place in November with presentations by oil companies on their strategies and plans. In addition, bo [...]
A tale of oil-down-to’s
28 years after Saga Petroleum AS made the H-Central oil discovery, Equinor has returned to explore for more volumes in the Draupne Sandstone as it tar [...]
Is Sakarya (Tuna-1) a transformational gas discovery for Turkey?
Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, recently stated that the Tuna-1 well may have established contingent resources of 405 Bcm (14.3 Tcf) of gas. [...]
Landscapes under the North Sea: Geology and Offshore Wind
It’s now well known that the North Sea was an area of exposed land during the Last Glacial Maximum, around 25,000 years ago, when Global Mean Sea Leve [...]
Small Norwegian E&P players achieve highest returns on exploration spend
The key result of the analysis, which includes exploration activity and results from 2017 to around October 2020, is that the highest return on explor [...]
A reflection on the state of the industry
Shane Cowley puts the current oil and gas industry downturn in a global energy perspective. [...]