A consortium of Dutch companies launched a petition to support an open-source well database last week. It doesn’t happen often that companies initiate [...]
In the Netherlands, multi-lateral wells are to be drilled to exploit geothermal energy from thin Rotliegend strata. [...]
The energy transition is not a choice, it is a must, provided that countries such as the Netherlands want to keep a certain amount of autonomy over en [...]
In exchange for government help on public support, onshore operators voluntarily put aside the opportunity to use a recently approved tax incentive. [...]
Dutch geologist Anja Dijkhuizen explains why the story around the energy transition has to be told differently. [...]
Direct conversion of exploration to production well is testament to the agile way the field has been put on stream. [...]
Yme field field redevelopment start imminent
Operator Repsol this week announced the arrival of the upgraded Maersk Inspirer rig at the Yme field i [...]
A quick 2020 recap
In terms of exploration wells spudded, 2020 was a year of strongly reduced activity, particularly on the UK Continental Shelf. W [...]
What are the most important observations we can make from plotting the 2020 exploration wells spudded in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea? [...]
In a year where there was even a spell without a single well being drilled, and where many O&G companies are waiting for the government to impleme [...]
Danish Government happy to send CO2 abroad
In an article published on the Energy Watch website this week, it was announced that the Danish governme [...]
Releasing field data is not a new thing, as Equinor demonstrated through making available the Volve dataset a few years ago.
However, having the ab [...]
CO2 storage project Danish offshore reaches milestone
As announced this week, the Nini West field in the Siri Canyon has reached a milestone into [...]
Petrogas E&P Netherlands to drill more wells in shallow gas fields
With the rig contract being announced this week, this three-well programme i [...]
New platform successfully installed in Dutch offshore
Last week, Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Sleipnir successfully installed a new minimum faciliti [...]
Exploration highlights on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
This week the NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries took place as a digital event, spread [...]
It was the third well drilled in sequence after the two Sillimanite Unit field development wells were successfully brought into production earlier thi [...]
A seismic acquisition campaign? For most people this sounds like a quest for oil and gas, but in the Netherlands an extensive programme is underway to [...]
Comparing numbers of deep geothermal and hydrocarbon wells reveals some interesting information on drilling activity in the Low Countries. [...]
Dutch research programme looks at how to smartly link the various energy functions in the North Sea to arrive at a climate-neutral energy system. [...]
An update of the old stratigraphic nomenclature – which used to be an online display of a hardcopy report - was long overdue, but it now offers many n [...]
Still a lot of hydrocarbons to be discovered in the Dutch part of the North Sea. [...]
In Tulip Oil’s quarterly update, the company announced a 25 per cent increase in production from its main asset, the Q10-A gas field. [...]
- Western Europe’s oil supply, with Norway and the United Kingdom as key contributors, is set for a renaissance this year and a growing trajectory goi [...]
In a press release of today, Wintershall DEA and Gazprom announce that their joint venture, Wintershall Noordzee B.V, has started gas production from [...]
The TAQA-operated P15-20 exploration well on the Dutch Continental Shelf (NLCS) last autumn was completed just before Christmas, TAQA confirmed in an [...]
In a new report released last week by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, the forecast for Dutch gas producers shows a deterioration towards 2030: [...]
Ever since computers began to become part of everyday life for geologists and geophysicists, many have feared the evolution. The frightening scenario [...]
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 [...]
The construction of the world's largest wind farm has begun in the UK. Fugro lands deal with Dutch wind farm. [...]
The petroleum industry in this corner of the world enters another year. The search for new hydrocarbons to replace existing assets to an increasing en [...]
“The shallow depth and properties of the targeted Tertiary gas reservoirs provide new opportunities for Neptune and are a different exploration play c [...]
On 23 October 1969, the L10-1 well was spudded. It was the first well in block L10 on the Dutch Continental Shelf and was drilled by Placid, the origi [...]
The consideration for the proposed transaction comprises an upfront payment of €30.1 million, plus a future deferred payment of €2.0 million upon firs [...]
According to the Dutch Government, the natural gas extraction level will be reduced to below 77 Mboe, no later than October 2022 and possibly even one [...]
The Q10 gas field was discovered in 1973 by the exploration well Q7-1, which encountered gas in the Rotliegend. Tulip Oil drilled the Q10-6 appraisal/ [...]
RockRose Energy announced that it has approached the board of directors of Independent Oil and Gas ('IOG') with a proposal for an all cash takeover of [...]
Tulip Oil Netherlands Offshore announces the start-up and commissioning of the Q10 offshore gas development in the Dutch North Sea, only 15 months aft [...]
On January 17, the Dutch High Court will have a hearing to consider demands to immediately end the gas production from the Groningen field. Local and [...]
WoodMac analysists expect that oil exploration in the North Sea will bounce back in 2019 with 60 exploration wells on the drilling schedule for the UK [...]
Third Energy Offshore Ltd's portfolio includes interests in the Greater Pegasus Area (45%), and the high impact Andromeda prospect in the Southern Nor [...]
On the 20th of December Oranje-Nassau Energie and Dyas have announced the merge of their upstream energy businesses into a single company called ONE-D [...]