Who Owns the Oil?
The why and how of unitisation. Nature does not respect the licence boundaries drawn on a map by humans. Oil and gas accumulations straddling licence boundaries are common. The size…
Oil & Gas
Small changes can bring significant value
OKEA is working towards extending the economic life of mid- to late-life assets in a field with excellent reservoir properties. This requires a creative approach.
Ten Reasons why 3D Geo-modeling and Flow Simulation Must Be Integrate
Flow simulation is the reservoir engineer’s tool of predilection, providing understanding of how fluid flows through the reservoir and how it can optimally be extracted. 3D Geo Modeling and Flow…
The High Impact Hydrocarbon Potential of the Orange Basin
While the Mississippi, Congo, Nile, and many other major deltas around the world have been, and are being, successfully explored and developed, the vast Orange Basin offshore South Africa and…
Revolutionising History Matching and Uncertainty Assessment
When planning future production, new technology that replaces manual history matching of reservoir models represents a key advance for reservoir engineering. Revolutionising History Matching and Uncertainty Assessment
Solveig – a complex character
As presented by Ronald Sørlie during the NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries Conference in Oslo this month, the second last oil discovery for Lundin on the Norwegian Shelf proved that…
Pressure is mounting on Groningen
Europe is in a dire need of additional gas supplies following the commitment from most countries to cut down on import from Russian gas. This has become even more acute…
A sleeping giant
As the United States pours funding into the development of clean, reliable energy, the competition among candidates – including geothermal, nuclear and batteries – seems like a horse race as…
Lundin to submit PDO for Rolvsnes fractured basement field
Although the ultimate recoverable volumes from the Rolvsnes fractured basement field are probably less than the initial numbers Lundin presented at the start of the Extended Well Test that commenced in…
The week of the gas go-aheads
In the UK, the Jackdaw development (120-250 MMboe) was given the nod, whilst the German and Dutch authorities expressed the intention to approve the N05-A project (31 MMboe). Both projects…
The need for joined-up thinking to optimise use of the North Sea to achieve net zero targets
The UK has been highly effective in decarbonising the UK electricity system through the use of renewables in general and wind power in particular. The contribution made by wind power…
Small gas fields to be developed for Europe
Back in the early 2000’s, when I had just embarked on my working life, I remember that someone told me that fields the size of 1 Bcm were now being…