Kraken – overcoming offshore heavy oil field challenges
Heavy oil developments are not straightforward. “This also applies to the Kraken development in Quad 9 of the UK Northern North Sea,” as reservoir engineer Jan Manoharan from Enquest says.…
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Poland’s long-term gas strategy pays off
Russia may have cut gas supplies to Poland last week, but the country started a diversification process years ago. These decisions are about to pay off. For Poland, but not…
How the underburden determines what happens in the overburden
Is it a surprise that the G4 gas leak incident in 2012 happened in a well on the Elgin field and not the nearby Franklin/West Franklin fields? Elgin, Franklin and…
Germany in favour of cross-border gas development
“We can’t afford demanding a continuous supply of gas from the Netherlands, whilst at the same time refusing to produce it ourselves,” said the economy secretary Bernd Althusmann in a…
Evaluating Fluid Drainage Dynamics in Resource Plays
In this article we discuss how fluid chemistry can be deployed to directly confirm or refine the assumptions made when optimising developments in hydrocarbon production from resource plays. Hydrocarbon production…
Harbour kicks off development drilling at Laverda
When looking at a map that shows the surface location of the 28/09a-C9 well that was spudded by Harbour Energy this month, it looks like it is drilling a prospect…
Lancaster will produce longer
In a press release issued by Hurricane on Friday last week, the company announced that it has extended the lease of Bluewater’s Aoka Mizu FPSO which is currently stationed at…
ONE-Dyas aims to develop F06-IJssel discovery
In an appraisal campaign that is quite unique in the North Sea just because of its pace, ONE-Dyas has now also proven oil in the second appraisal well on the…
New measures to maintain high gas exports to Europe
Equinor and its partners, together with Norwegian authorities, take new steps to meet the gas demand in Europe. Increased production permits allow the high gas production from the Troll, Oseberg…
Liatårnet considered non-commercial
In a way, the RFT tests carried out in 25/2-11 in 1987 proved to be a key indicator with regards to the potential of the Liatårnet oil discovery: no oil…
The ten worst UK field developments
Coming up with the ten worst field developments across the UK Continental Shelf requires some experience and knowledge about the history of the basin. In a well-illustrated video, which can…
“The European gas market is broken”
That concludes Nikos Tsafos in a tweet earlier this morning when comparing gas and oil prices. Yes, oil is now north of $100 per barrel, but in oil equivalent terms…