Where was the world’s first oil well? Poland!
The first oil well in the world was drilled by Colonel Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania, Cowboyland, in 1859. Everyone in the oil industry, and probably every American child, know the […]
Category Archives: Oil and Gas
How to make oil in a few easy steps
(When you have read this blog post, you will appreciate how lucky we are to have oil!) During the last posts, I have taken you on a tour along the […]
Q: Where does oil come from?
A: Kimmeridge Bay, where rocks burn!
It’s time for some memories from old days…a few years back, from, probably, the closest petroleum geologists get to pilgrimage: Kimmeridge Bay, a troll’s stone throw east of Weymouth. Still […]
The Seven Sisters: How Cretaceous beauties made Norway rich
The white cliffs of Dover are English icons, just like cream tea and football, before oligarchs bought the teams. But how many know about their twin sisters in Sussex? Some […]
Malta article now in GEO ExPro!
Malta – a country shape by limestone (and some very old poo) features in Geotourism in the recent issue of GEO ExPro, a magazine for the petroleum exploration community – […]
How to see 170 million years in two kilometres
I am a petroleum geologist for my day time job. Petroleum geologists study sedimentary rocks, because they are the ones that contain oil (sand and limestones) or are the source […]
Fjordblock island: The Upper Permian of Svalbard
I promised you the Permian on Svalbard, after the Carboniferous. Well, the lower Permian on Svalbard was basically the same as the Upper Carboniferous, and 300 million years ago is […]
Insta petroleum system: Wick’ed oil in Scotland
Usually, petroleum geologists think of source rock and reservoir as different things: The source is the tight, shitty shale that has to be be boiled to expulse oil. The reservoir […]
Boooo! Halloween in the Kungurian – literally
A few days ago, I took you to Perm to look at the Permian, and a crash-course in the mysterious ways of carbonate rock porosity. Today, we home into the […]
Perm and the Permian: Carbonate porosity for muggles
Some places have a special place in the hearts of geologists. Iceland with its volcanoes. The Dorset coast because it is the cradle of modern geology. The Oslo Graben because […]