John Donato (retired ex-Merlin employee) continues to work with the Beneath Britain/UKOGL (UK Onshore Geophysical Library) Group. In conjunction with Chris Pullan, he has recently published a paper discussing the deep geology of the area on, around and under (!) the Derbyshire Dome. Continue reading to find out more.
Sri Lanka announce a new licensing round, offshore in the Mannar Basin. Continue reading to find out more.
It is less than one month to go until Africa Oil Week, this year hosted in Accra, Ghana, 1-3 September 2026. Merlin Energy Resources is proud to be Bronze sponsors of the event which aims to deliver the connections, conversations, and deals to drive Africa’s energy future and support the development of the African upstream sector.
Some of you may already have heard about the remarkable geological site at Court Farm, Kings Stanley, in Gloucestershire. In 2022, an excavation at the site uncovered an extraordinary collection of fossil fish preserved within a layer of limestone nodules in Lower Jurassic rocks. This year, a second excavation returned to the same location and uncovered even more significant fossils from the same fossil-rich layer. A wide range of geologists and palaeontologists have been involved in assessing the material recovered at the site, including Merlin's stratigrapher Phil Copestake. To find out more about these impressive fossils and learn about Phil's involvement, continue reading.
If you visited the Merlin booth at the EAGE Annual 2026 conference in Aberdeen last week, you hopefully took part in our fun competition: DHI Hit or Miss? For those losing sleep wondering whether you got the correct answers, worry no longer, this article will fill you in.
If you visited the Merlin booth at the EAGE Annual 2026 conference in Aberdeen last week, you hopefully took part in our fun competition: DHI Hit or Miss? Fear not, we will reveal the correct answers in a newsletter post next week, but for now here are the results.
Join the Merlin team for a series of short, 20 minute Lunch & Learn technical sessions at the EAGE Annual conference in Aberdeen next week.
The Merlin team are busy getting ready for the EAGE Annual conference in Aberdeen as there is now less than one week to go.
John Donato (a founding member of Merlin) continues to enjoy an active retirement through his work with the UKOGL/Beneath Britain Group. In collaboration with Chris Pullan and Malcolm Butler, he has recently published a new gravity interpretation of the deep geology of England. Continue reading this short newsletter which gives a taster of John's new paper, and, if you want more, you can read it in full on the UKOGL website (link in the article).
The Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark (AMHG) covers the five counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, and boasts a wide variety of interesting landscapes, geology, history and wildlife. It has…
There is just one month to go until the EAGE Annual conference in Aberdeen, 8-11th June 2026. Join the Merlin team at Booth A710.
Understanding and quantifying uncertainty remains a persistent challenge to making effective geoscience decisions. This article explores some of the challenges and the practical solutions that can be put in place to improve subsurface predictions by incorporating uncertainty analysis.