The 2025 Nigerian licensing round, which commences today, Monday 1st December, furthers the desire to move the petroleum industry forward in Nigeria. The emphasis is on optimising near term production and accelerating energy transition goals with undeveloped discoveries, fallow fields and gas rich fields being included. Continue reading to learn more.
Merlin’s Eleanor Oldham attended the EAGE Global Energy Transition (GET) conference in Rotterdam from 28th-30th October. Here is her debrief of the event.
Merlin recently took 15 acquisition and processing specialists from AkerBP to Dorset to enjoy a whistle stop tour through a working petroleum system. Merlin’s Phil Copestake and Bill Wilks have taken client groups on field trips before, but usually it has been for geoscientists, or management wishing to de-mystify sub-surface jargon! In this case, they had the pleasure of taking 15 Scandinavia-based specialists to the three iconic locations on the Jurassic Coast, namely Burton Bradstock, Lulworth Cove and Kimmeridge Bay. Interested? Click to continue reading the full blog post.
Eleanor Oldham will be speaking at the Sixth EAGE Global Energy Transition Conference & Exhibition in Rotterdam from 27th to 31st October. Her presentation highlights the application of rock physics for CCS workflows, with examples of reservoir characterization and feasibility assessment for 4D seismic monitoring. Continue reading to learn more.
Bill Wilks and Helen Bone have recently returned from Africa Energy Week 2025. With over 6,000 attendees the event is possibly the largest energy conferences on the continent. It provides a forum in which the energy strategies of countries across Africa can be showcased and where operators and investors can connect to further future developments. With so much going on at the conference Bill and Helen came away with a basket of learnings and these are some of their key take aways.
On 2nd-3rd September Eleanor Oldham attended the Geological Society’s 4th CCS Symposium on Effective Characterisation of Storage Sites. Continue reading to learn more about Eleanor's take homes from the conference.
Bill Wilks and Helen Bone are looking forward to representing Merlin Energy Resources at African Energy Week on 29th September to 3rd October 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.