“The Netherlands will go ahead with plans to end gas production at the large Groningen field next year," Reuters reported on the 24th of September.
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The Q10-A field is a particular accumulation in multiple ways. Firstly, it is the first gas find in Dutch waters, with discovery well Q10-2 drilled in [...]
As the website Politico mentioned last week, the main parties in Norway all support the oil and gas sector, with only the Greens challenging the statu [...]
In a press release issued yesterday, Shell NL, TotalEnergies, EBN and Gasunie have agreed on a collaboration to realise another CO2 capture, transport [...]
As Bloomberg Energy expert Javier Blas showed on Twitter last week, both the UK and Dutch gas benchmarks closed at all-time highs. Combined with the f [...]
The Dutch government is considering to approve NAM’s request to produce gas from the Ternaard gas field, which is situated below one of the most impor [...]
Last week, Shell in partnership with company D4 announced the award of a licence for geothermal exploration in the west of the Netherlands – named “Ri [...]
Drilling for geothermal energy is not new in the Netherlands, but most projects so far were completed to produce energy for greenhouse heating. What i [...]
As summer gradually draws to a close, people get back to work and schools are about to re-open, it's time to present a bit of a summary of what happen [...]
Operator ONE-Dyas is reported to have found gas in exploration well N04-03, recently completed north of the N05-A gas discovery that is likely to be d [...]
When ranked amongst the 22 gas-producing assets (licences) onshore the Netherlands, total gas production from all geothermal wells ranks 17th, thus le [...]
The Dutch Continental Shelf is a mature part of the North Sea, experiencing a trend of rapidly declining production from a large number of small field [...]
Last month, UK-based company Kistos announced the acquisition of Tulip Oil Netherlands. The deal included the operating interest in the Q10-A offshore [...]
Last week, ONE-Dyas submitted a detailed outline of the N05-A development plan to the authorities. Primarily situated in the Dutch offshore, the accum [...]
The 1959 discovery of the Groningen field in Upper Permian Rotliegend sandstones kickstarted a drilling bonanza in the Netherlands and the North Sea t [...]
It’s the week of the North Sea. EBN, the state-owned energy company that participates in most oil and gas developments in the Netherlands, organises a [...]
In a press release (in Dutch) that went out today, Sander Houben and Geert-Jan Vis from TNO - Geological Survey of the Netherlands report on their wor [...]
Earlier this week, Neptune Energy announced the award of a four-wells contract to Borr Drilling. Part of this programme is an exploration well in the [...]
The story of how Hansa Hydrocarbons managed to discover gas in an area that had previously been written off. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
It was the third well drilled in sequence after the two Sillimanite Unit field development wells were successfully brought into production earlier thi [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]