Dr Kaydy Pinetown and I just gave a workshop on methane – from its formation, to measurement, to in-ground assessment to fugitive emissions and the legislation governing that. We were at the 42nd Annual Meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Beijing, China. TSOP is the premier international organisation that looks at all […]
Sign up now before it is overbooked! 4 September 2026 Join us at the 42nd Annual Meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology, Beijing, China (register here: https://tsop2026.tiemeeting.com/EN). This one-day workshop explores the fundamentals of measuring methane from resources to fugitive emissions. Methane is both a commercial source of energy but also a greenhouse gas […]
The next morning we woke up in the Miocene. After two full days of living in the present, we found ourselves fossicking around in sediments that were 15 million years old. They say a lot can happen in an afternoon, and indeed a lot did happen in the previous 5 billion afternoons. The march of […]