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Stephen Crabtree, a geophysicist who has worked in the oil and gas industry for over 30 years (notably working for Phillips Petroleum and Enterprise Oil), said the story of how his company Gripen Gas AB came about was an odd one. He explained, “Almost by accident, I met Torgny Berglund from...
Gas flow has resumed on the Nord Stream pipeline following a planned two week shutdown. The shutdown was necessitated by work on the second pipeline on the project, during which pipe-laying was completed. The pipe-laying brings Nord Stream closer to the completion of the second pipeline of the twin...
Gripen Gas announced today the drilling results from their Ekeby Permit, onshore Sweden. Four shallow vertical wells tested the prospectivity of biogenic gas from the organic rich Cambro-‐ Ordovician Alum Shale over an area covering about 150km2. The prospective Alum Shale was encountered at...
Norwegian Skangass and Sweden's largest oil company Preem have today announced the signing of a deal for LNG supply to Preem's refinery on the west coast of Sweden. The agreement will also see the building of a €55 million LNG terminal to neighbour the refinery. In addition to the terminal, the...
Davide Calcagni, Vice President of Unconventional at Italy’s oil and gas firm ENI S.p.A. had a number of “good news items” for delegates at the European Unconventional Gas Summit in Krakow, Poland: conventional gas was declining, each government wanted gas to secure electricity production...
Aura Energy’s recent announcement that they are about to start drilling at their Motala shale gas project in Sweden, is further evidence of the growing interest in unconventional gas resources. The announcement is particularly significant when you consider the Australian based AEE is more renowned...
Uranium explorer, Aura Energy Limited is seeking shale gas in south-central Sweden. The company is investigating the potential for shale gas at its Motala Project, which covers approximately 140 square kilometres of the Alum Shale, host rock to its giant Häggån uranium resource further north...
Gripen Gas AB, the independent Swedish gas exploration company, has received notification that Bergsstaten (Swedish Mines Inspectorate) has awarded the company five exploration licences totaling 186km2 on Öland, in Kalmar County and a further two licences totaling 11km2 in Östergötland County. The...
Matthew Scotland, Energy Reports Writer, Visiongain provides an overview of The Shale Gas Market 2011-2021 The amalgamation of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies in the 1980s enabled the US to become the pioneers of commercial shale gas production. Although the first shale gas...
Gripen Gas AS has been awarded five licenses to for gas exploration in the Alum shale formation.The Swedish Mines Inspectorate (Bergsstaten) granted the five exploration licenses (Ekeby, Hov, Eneby, Orlunda and Skedet) totaling 224 square kilometers in the Cambro-Ordivician basin of Östergötland County.