Natural fracture networks are not created equal
Natural fracture networks are not created equal. In a tight reservoir, they may enhance the permeability and give production an upside. In a porous reservoir, a natural fracture network may…
Oil & Gas
Australia faces a future of contrasting policies for oil and gas in a rapidly evolving energy landscape
State budgets are in surplus for those with active producing sectors. For instance, Queensland announced A$2.33 billion in petroleum royalties for 2023, helping underpin a record A$12 billion surplus and…
“It’s not difficult, it’s different”
Many people think that heavy oil developments are even worse than lignite, but that is not the case according to Maurice Bamford who recently gave a talk on the Pilot…
Schoonebeek oil production is on hold in the Netherlands – again
When looking at a map of the Schoonebeek oil field and its equivalent in Germany (see below), one would almost think that the Germans and the Dutch agreed on the…
UKCS – a decommissioning hotspot
In two separate social media posts this week, Tom Morgan from Well Info nicely showed why the UKCS is such an active player when it comes to decommissioning wells in…
Three small countries with little gas left
The daily news in the E&P sector is obviously focused on success stories. New finds in the East Med, the first shipment of LNG from Mozambique or another oil discovery…
The Ups and Downs of Dutch Offshore Gas Production
When the Groningen field was found in 1959 in the north of the Netherlands, one would think that the first offshore well in the Dutch sector was to be drilled…
The Poles were bang on time
It must have been a good moment for PGNiG Norway’s Subsurface and Exploration manager Chris Dart to present his company’s business outlook at the recent NCS Exploration Strategy Conference in…
Myanmar oil and gas exploration, delayed but not forgotten
In 2015, Duncan Witts described Myanmar as “one of the World’s current hotspots for oil and gas exploration…”. Forward to 2022, exploration and foreign investment have significantly declined due to…
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.
A closer look at Baodao 21-1
The Baodao 21-1 discovery is not new, but its volumes have recently been confirmed by the Chinese government. Time to put the discovery in a regional context.
The often-forgotten potential of Africa’s landlocked countries
While most of the focus is on the offshore of Africa, and in more recent years the deepwater, the landlocked countries of the vast continent are often ignored.