Found a 2.5 m oil column
OKEA has completed drilling of the reservoir section of the Infill Ø well (6407/9-11) in the Draugen Field. The well targeted a possible unswept oil accumulation in the producing reservoir…
Oil & Gas
Advances in Stratigraphic Trap Exploration
Analysis of the AAPG giant fields database reveals that there has been a step change in volumes of oil attributed to non-structural traps in the last 20 years. Why is…
US in the lead
The United States currently holds 293 billion barrels of recoverable oil resources. This is 20 billion barrels more than Saudi Arabia and almost 100 billion barrels more than Russia, according…
What is chemostratigraphy?
The rapid expansion of global oil and gas exploration from the early 1960s was accompanied by the expansion of the areas being examined by explorationists towards more challenging, often frontier,…
Lessons to be learned
“The Maria field in the Norwegian Sea has underperformed”, reports Joe Killen, analyst with Westwood Global Energy. It came onstream a year ahead of schedule but has experienced a 71%…
The World Needs More Energy
In their Energy Outlook, issued every year, BP looks at the broad forces shaping the energy. This year BP highlights two key issues. Firstly, the world needs more energy, and…
Deep Blue – one of nine
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…
The Origin of Shale Gases
The origin of shale gases has important implications on their ability to provide hydrocarbon reserves. As we all know, the discovery that gas formed and locked in shale source rocks…
The Shale Oil Revolution
Barely recognizable some ten years plus, shale oil production from 6-7 US sedimentary basins has now reached almost 8MMbopd. Most of the oil – almost half of it – comes…
Neptune goes ahead with Seagull
Neptune Energy announced that Neptune and its joint venture partners BP and Japex have agreed on the final investment decision for the Seagull oil project. Seagull is a high pressure,…
334MMbo offshore Ghana
The main Pecan field, located in ultra-deep waters ranging from 2,400 to 2,700 metres about 115 kilometres offshore Ghana, will be developed with a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO)…
Maria still shut-in
In an interview with Sysla, Mario Mehren CEO Wintershall, confesses that he is disappointed how the Maria field has performed so far and that there is uncertainty when it will…