2nd Offshore Wind Symposium: Energy Group
Eleanor Oldham will be attending the Geological Society's 2nd offshore wind symposium later this week on Thursday 18th – 19th September 2025 @ The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
Summer Intern
This year Merlin Energy Resources has been joined by Emily Howard for a summer internship. She has been working on several projects enhancing her hands on experience with subsurface data. Emily has shared her experience of the time she spent with Merlin. To read, click continue.
Geological Society’s CCS Symposium
Eleanor Oldham will be presenting at The Geological Society’s CCS Symposium in London on 2nd-3rd September. Eleanor is passionate about championing rock physics workflows for CCS reservoir characterisation and seismic MMV…
A Brief Visit to Iceland
John Donato, founder member of Merlin, now reluctantly retired, visited Iceland with his family in May of this year. Always interested in the local geophysics, but knowing little of Iceland’s geology, John was naively expecting to find a Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift and a possibly thinner oceanic crust on his trip – wildly wrong he was on both counts! Continue reading his latest blog post here to learn more about the local geophysics of Iceland and find out where John visited on his trip.
Merlin celebrates EO Day 2025
On 1st July 2025 Merlin Energy Resources celebrated being 9 years employee owned. To mark the occasion, the staff at Merlin took a trip to the Lapworth Museum of Geology at Birmingham University and Winterbourne House and Gardens. Continue reading to find out more.
GeoFest 2025
GeoFest is back for another year. Continue reading to find out more about the Geopark and events happening over the next three months.
APA Round 2025
The NOD recently announced the 2025 APA Round in Norway, so the lights have turned green, and operators need to submit bids before the deadline on September 2nd! If you need support, whether that be an extra pair of hands or a quick stand-alone technical G&G evaluation, then give us a call!
Interpreting the bathroom
You don’t have to be a geologist to like rocks. Continue reading to flex those interpretation skills on a surprising household item.
BEOS 2025: A full review
In our latest blog post we share the take-aways from BEOS 2025 regarding the state of the industry and future trends. Whilst the traditional E&P industry continues to be sluggish for smaller companies, the dawn of sub-surface energy storage could herald a golden age for geoscientists. If you couldn’t make it, give it a read and get the gist of what you missed out on.
Oman Licensing Round
You may have heard the news of an active onshore licensing round in the Sultanate of Oman but may be less sure of what it covers, where the blocks are located and what plays are involved. Would they be of interest? In our latest blog post we introduce the three blocks on offer and discuss their relative merits based on our past experience working in the Sultanate. It might be something to pique the interest, or enough to prompt you to move on!
BEOS 2025
Bill Wilks and Phil Copestake are looking forward to attending the GESGB BEOS conference "Standing on the shoulders of giants" taking place on 4-5th March 2025.
Essentials of Rock Physics
The Essentials of Rock Physics and Seismic Amplitude Interpretation training course has been introducing geoscientists to the principles, workflows and limitations of interpretating subsurface data using rock physics since 1999. …