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Oil & Gas

The Black Sea is back

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co
The region took a huge leap forward in 2020 when the Turkish state energy compa­ny…
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On the Horizon

NAPE Summit
Houston, USA, 18–20 February

Orphan, Abandoned, Idle, and Marginal Wells
Tulsa, USA, 25–26 February

GeoTHERM 2026
Offenburg, Germany, 26–27 February

PROSPEX 2026
London, UK, 9 March

EAGE Digital
Stavanger, Norway, 9–12 March

Aberdeen Energy Talk
Aberdeen, UK, 10 March

Geothermal 2026
Aberdeen, UK, 11–12 March

SEG
Luanda, Angola, 16–18 March

Seabed Minerals 2026
Bergen, Norway, 24–26 March

ENVEXX
London, UK, 24–25 March

EGYPES 2026
Cairo, Egypt, 30 March – 1 April

AAPG CCUS
Houston, USA, 30 March – 2 April

EAGE Sub-Saharan Africa
Maputo, Mozambique, 13–15 April

SRC 2026
Manila, Philippines, 13–15 April

Energy Transition

Carbon Capture & Storage

Progress over perfection

Ronny Setså
The Norwegian continental shelf offers a wealth of opportunities for new industries alongside and after…

Being smart with data

Henk Kombrink
On the fringe of the EAGE GET Confer­ence in Rotterdam, I meet with May Zhang,…
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Geothermal

A very expensive fart in the wind

Henk Kombrink
Early December last year, Eavor announced the start of electricity production from their Geretsried deep…

Where the earth yawns

Susan Fellows
I first visited Iceland a decade ago. Recently, I returned, courtesy of a European Geothermal…
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Seabed Minerals

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New Gas

France’s first stimulated natural hydrogen project

Patrick Target, Stuart Lake and Ethan Lish, Vedra Hydrogen
Clean hydrogen production from electrolysis remains expensive and difficult to scale, leaving industry without the…
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Exploration Opportunities

From cuttings to clarity: AI unlocking the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Earth Science Analytics and Rockwash Geodata
This project enables geoscientists to gain access to a groundbreaking digital dataset - the Analytics-Ready Cuttings Dataset, available through EarthNET AI Images under a commercial software license. Developed by Rockwash Geodata (RW) and Earth Science Analytics (ESA), this collaboration transforms decades of geological cuttings from the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) into an intelligent, machine-interpreted data product designed for exploration, CCS, and renewable-energy applications.

Sweetness and light in Oman’s Indian Ocean

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson and Lauren Found, Searcher
Around 375 BC, Plato used the “Socratic Method” to ask philosophical questions that led to deeper understanding of what it means to be Human. In 2025 Searcher reprocessed legacy seismic data from Oman’s Indian Ocean margin, seeking to challenge conventional exploration models. What we found was a brave new world of source rocks and trapped hydrocarbons that challenge what it means to be an Explorer.

Cameroon: Unlocking potential and reigniting exploration

Misha Isakov and Graham Cooke, Viridien
Cameroon’s Douala/Kribi-Campo (DKC) and Rio del Rey (RDR) Basins offer significant exploration opportunities, underpinned by advanced seismic reimaging, integrated geological evaluation and modern interpretation techniques. In the RDR Basin, focus is shifting from the mature shallow Miocene-Pliocene plays to deeper Cenozoic turbidites and the Cretaceous succession, where improved imaging and regional analogues point to significant untapped resources. Meanwhile, reimaged 3D data in the DKC Basin illuminates stratigraphic, structural, and combination trap opportunities, adjacent to the Kribi-Campo High, and improves understanding of complex channel systems and salt-related plays. Together, these insights demonstrate how modern imaging and integrated geological analysis can unlock prospectivity across both basins. With the 2025 Licensing Round now open, Cameroon presents a fresh opportunity for discoveries and renewed exploration success.

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From the Industry

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Subsurface

In the news

When carbon storage becomes a game

Rodney Garrard
Imagine playing chess – but underground. Every move you make affects not only your own…

Subsurface noise, Issue 5, 2025

Henk Kombrink
MOPANE DOES NOT GIVE AWAY ITS SECRETS Namibia is an exploration hotspot, and for that…
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Geology & Geophysics

Love and sex and oil and passion

Juan Cottier, MMbbls Subsurface Consulting
We also never for­get those true loves. We carry them for life. My first time…

Going deeper for salt mining

Henk Kombrink
The Dutch subsurface is well known for its gas resources, hosting the world-famous Groningen field.…
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Portraits

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Technology

Producing more by producing less

Henk Kombrink
“The pressure in the separation unit, where the produced oil is separat­ed from gas, is…
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Stories on Camera

Coring process step by step

Henk Kombrink
We often talk about core being the only ground-truth data from the subsurface, but how…
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