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Petroleumpotentieel: fundament voor Gas-to-Shore en de uitgebreide Tout Lui Faut-raffinaderij (KKF-lezing)
Lecture for the Suriname Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF), Paramaribo, November 2026. From offshore petroleum potential to Gas-to-Shore power and LPG, a phased Tout Lui Faut refinery expansion and the Golden Lane Intelligence Platform. Version of record on Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.24160472.
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Energy, Energy Strategy, Golden Lane, Guyana Suriname Basin (GSB), New Refinery, Petroleum Economics, Suriname
The Economics of Refining Golden Lane™ Crude in Suriname · De economie van het raffineren van Golden Lane-olie in Suriname
SPE Suriname Section Technical Talk, Paramaribo, 17 November 2026. Should Suriname refine more of its own Golden Lane crude? A phased brownfield expansion of Tout Lui Faut from 15 to 50 kb/d, tested on Liza-type crude. Version of record on Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.24158877.
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Geoscience, Golden Lane, Guyana Craton, Guyana Suriname Basin (GSB), Mineral Exploration, Petroleum Exploration, Suriname
Regional correlation and Early Miocene paleogeology: Coro/Falcón, Perla–Coral, Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire
At c. 20 Ma the Perla–Coral ramp and the San Luis and Churuguara banks of Falcón were active; the Seroe Domi carbonates of Aruba and Curaçao are younger. A regional chronostratigraphic correlation and an Early Miocene palaeogeologic map, Revision 1.1, with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24053231.
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Geoscience, Golden Lane, Guyana Craton, Guyana Suriname Basin (GSB), Mineral Exploration, Petroleum Exploration, Suriname
The Mineral and Petroleum Deposits of Suriname and the Golden Lane: a Metallogenic Stratigraphy
Suriname holds about 20 million ounces of gold in its two large mines, more than 500 Mt of unmined plateau bauxite, about 1 billion barrels of heavy oil in place onshore and a deep-water discovery inventory of more than 2.4 billion barrels of liquids and 12.5 Tcf of gas. This GLIAG essay places every deposit…
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Geoscience, Golden Lane, Guyana Craton, Guyana Suriname Basin (GSB), Mineral Exploration, Petroleum Exploration, Suriname
Suriname: a Palimpsest of Two Billion Years
How the Guiana Shield made Suriname’s gold, its bauxite and the sands of the Golden Lane: two billion years of geology in six acts, with a treasure map of mineral systems, the shield-to-slope source-to-sink link and a FACT · MISSING · GLIAG JUDGEMENT · TRIGGER evidence register. Revision 1.1. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24045211.
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Geological evolution of the Guyana–Suriname Basin: from inherited continental architecture to a working petroleum system
Why the Guyana–Suriname Basin became a working petroleum system: rifting built the container, Albian–Turonian anoxia laid down the ACT source, Late Cretaceous turbidites delivered the reservoirs and Cenozoic burial started generation. Nine conceptual panels, 220 Ma to present. Revision 1.1, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24035532.
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The Earth Remembers · The Boy Who Listened to Stones: Vigilance on Limestone
Book I, Chapter 4 of the memoir The Earth Remembers: a boy at the first bend of the Gouverneur van Lansbergenweg, a nonconformity of some 72–76 million years, and Fort Waakzaamheid on Seru Domi from 1800 to 1942. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24024266.
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The Earth Remembers · Coral Above the Sea: Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba
A return to Beets and Mac Gillavry’s 1977 outline of the Cretaceous and Early Tertiary history of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba, joined to a childhood at Welgelegen and the hill of Fort Waakzaamheid. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23962866.
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The Birth of Basin Intelligence, Reimagined: how GLIAG, GIP, GBW Guyana–Suriname Basin and GBW South America convert basin evidence into decisions
Guyana has passed one billion barrels; Suriname is building GranMorgu. This pre-launch flagship essay explains how GLIAG, GIP, GBW and ASK Marcel turn basin evidence into decisions. Zenodo edition: 10.5281/zenodo.23912029.
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Maracaibo Continued: Generation and Migration of Hydrocarbons, Revisited after 42 Years (1984–2026)
A Socratic continuation of Talukdar, Gallango and Chin-A-Lien (1986): the La Luna charge ledger, the Andean burial clock, the Intevep molecular lineage and the Atlantic-margin comparison. Zenodo edition DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23887352.
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Recent Posts
- Petroleumpotentieel: fundament voor Gas-to-Shore en de uitgebreide Tout Lui Faut-raffinaderij (KKF-lezing)
- The Economics of Refining Golden Lane™ Crude in Suriname · De economie van het raffineren van Golden Lane-olie in Suriname
- Regional correlation and Early Miocene paleogeology: Coro/Falcón, Perla–Coral, Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire
- The Mineral and Petroleum Deposits of Suriname and the Golden Lane: a Metallogenic Stratigraphy
