Wisting is growing
Operator OMV has increased the estimated recoverable resources from 350 million barrels in 2017 to 440 million barrels of oil in 2018. A significant effort has been made over the…
Oil & Gas
New production record in 2023
Bente Nyland, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s Director General, presented mostly good news from the Shelf in 2018. With great enthusiasm about the high activity she looked back at 2018 and showed…
Demands immediate production stop at Groningen
On January 17, the Dutch High Court will have a hearing to consider demands to immediately end the gas production from the Groningen field. Local and regional authorities and even…
30% less reserves in Oda
Operator of the Oda field, Spirit Energy expects start-up for February or March. Estimated reserves are now 32.7 million boe of which 31.5 million bbls are oil. This is a…
500MMboe in 2018
Altogether 13 discoveries were made on the NCS last year. In total they proved a minimum of 240MMboe and a maximum of 720MMboe, according to NPD press releases throughout the…
Another bad year!
Only some 9 Bboe have been found worldwide this year. This is about the same as in 2016 and 2017 (8.3 and 7.5 Bboe, respectively), but significantly less than in…
Hydrocarbon reserves in mature areas
The deliberate search for additional reserves in proximity to producing assets pays off.
Hydrocarbon potential of the Jameson Land Basin
A series of Late Palaeozoic-Mesozoic basins, which formed as the result of rifting between Greenland and Norway following the Caledonian Orogeny, are exposed in East Greenland between 70° and 76°N…
Reservoir Rock Characterisation Using Raman Spectroscopy
Raman Spectroscopy enables precise reservoir rock characterisation studies and provides invaluable insight into the reservoir’s heterogeneity and other fine-scaled details. In today’s competitive market, reservoir rock characterisation has become a…
Wellsite Mud Logging and Reservoir Geochemistry
Wellsite mud logging and reservoir geochemistry results in a better reservoir characterisation in real time, improving performance and reducing costs. The Evolution of Geochemistry A mud logging-geochemical unit operating in…
Oil and Gas Exploration in Australia
After several low years of oil and gas exploration activity in Australia, it looks as though drilling potential is picking up. At the beginning of 2018 exploration spend offshore Australia…
Hydrocarbon Developments in the Eastern Mediterranean
Hot Spot: Ten gas discoveries across Egypt, Israel & Cyrprus define the East Mediterranean Hydrocarbon hotspot. Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbon Hotspot by Jon Ford, NVentures Ultimately recoverable reserves of 79 Tcf…