Teamwork at Rangely
Colorado’s Rangely oil field, with over 900 MMb of oil produced, has been viable and economic for more than seven decades thanks to an innovative and flexible approach. One of…
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Paraguay Draws Industry Attention
It is fashionable to identify deepwater regions, unconventional plays and the Arctic as the ‘hot spots’ in the current global exploration scene. In recent years, violence, tension with governments and power struggles…
Avoiding Reservoir Souring
Determining the source of hydrogen sulphide on an offshore oil production platform is an important part of preventing or controlling this unwanted gas. Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is a corrosive and…
Oil Production Surges in Texas
In spite of the recent decline in oil price, rig count, drilling permits and well completions, with an estimated 1.284 Bb of production in 2015, Texas is expected to break…
Water Matters!
Water occurs virtually everywhere in oil and gas fields – yet it is often ignored. But the composition of today´s formation water is the result of multiple hydrogeochemical processes, and…
The Pain and Sorrow of Reservoir Modeling
Back in the late eighties our ambition was to put modeling capabilities on every geoscientist’s desk. Now in 2015 that aim has been achieved, but are we actually producing the…
Sarawak Discoveries Boost Malaysia
Malaysia’s bid to turnaround the decline in its ageing petroleum reserves has exceeded expectations thanks to a series of major discoveries offshore Sarawak. Malaysia has long been a heavy hitter…
The Quantification of Uncertainty in Reservoir Management
New developments in history matching improve uncertainty quantification and risk assessment in reservoir management. Improving the analysis of risk in field management is the Holy Grail of reservoir modelling and in…
The Present is the Key to the Past
The Principle of Uniformitarianism gives confidence in selecting well sites through looking at Holocene facies analogues. The Principle of Uniformitarianism states that the causes and rates of geologic processes that…
Integrating Data Types for Reservoir Characterisation
From microscopic core analysis of the wellbore to seismic data measurements of rock properties between wells, a multidisciplinary team is essential when solving exploration and production problems in complex reservoirs.…
New Oil Play Excites Australia
Apache announced on 18 August that its shallow water Phoenix South-1 exploration well in permit WA-435-P, 180 km north of Port Hedland, had intersected at least four discrete oil columns…
The Weald Basin: Hot Spot or Hot Air?
Billions of barrels have been reported to lie under South East England, but how much of it is recoverable? There was great excitement in the newsrooms of the UK in…