Posts by Richard Jones

Great to see that the IEAGHG‘s report on “Reviewing the implications of unlikely but potential CO2 migration to the surface or shallow subsurface” (IEA/CON/22/287) has recently been released into the public domain – a really authoritative work that is impressive both in breadth and depth of analysis. Their analysis of leakage probability via wells and geological…

After five years of flat-out work supporting the UK government with CCUS development with colleagues in GeoEnergy Durham in the WSP-led consortium, it was great to be finally let off the leash during a brief lull in the workload! The IEAGHG workshop on “Risk Management and Monitoring Networks” in the Netherlands this week was a…

Congratulations to the Northern Lights JV on their recent announcement confirming the first injection and successful storage of CO2 into the Aurora reservoir at 2,600m depth in the Norwegian North Sea! Fantastic news! The Northern Lights project is breaking new ground as it’s the first CCUS project designed and developed to offer CO2 storage as…

Does it seem to you that people are spending less time on geological fieldwork and fieldtrips these days? With this in mind, we’re super-happy to be sponsoring the field excursion to the Wessex Basin that follows the “Tectonic Stress: from the lithosphere to the wellbore” conference at the Geological Society, London next week. There’s an…

This month sees the launch of new industry training courses run by GeoLogica. It’s great to see how the experienced team have assembled a range of courses with impressive depth and breadth, and we’re really excited to be involved! In addition to training that focuses on sub-surface interpretation, there is also a comprehensive program of…

We’re still very busy this month preparing and running virtual fieldtrips while covid restrictions prevent most real fieldtrips from taking place. Following on from our earlier excursions, in which we’ve toured the Zagros (many times!), the Betics in SE Spain, and classic UK geology in SE Scotland and NE England, our next trip returned to…

There’s so much great geology to see via Google Earth! Areas of active tectonism often provide some of the best case studies for demonstrating the close relationship between landscape and geodynamics. This month we’ve helped colleagues in Earth Sciences at Durham University to run a virtual fieldtrip to the Betics in southern Spain, using Google…

Beamish – The Living Museum of the North – is one of UK’s (and GRL’s!) favourite tourist attractions. Despite Covid restrictions, the museum is still open for business, and it’s great to see that work is continuing apace to complete the exciting expansion plans that were formulated long before lock-down. One part of the new…

We’ve just got back from a scouting mission to Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, to finalise the field itinerary and double-check logistics and HSE for our upcoming workshop in fractured basement reservoirs, scheduled for September. It rained! A lot! And it was so windy that the arrival of our trip leader Bob Holdsworth was delayed…

Our main field-based task this month has been to re-visit the autonomous GNSS units that we deployed on Mt. Etna and which had recorded the seismic swarm that caused displacement on the Pernicana fault on the eastern flank of the volcano six months ago. We had unexpectedly lost remote contact with one of the units,…