Norwegian Actual and Forecast Natural Gas Production towards 2020
In this post, I present a little about developments in actual natural gas production from the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) and a forecast towards 2020. I will also talk about where gas from the NCS is reported as being sold, and give a closer look...
Norwegian Actual and Forecast Natural Gas Production towards 2020
In this post I present a little about developments in actual natural gas production from the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) and a forecast towards 2020. I will also talk about where gas from the NCS is reported as being sold and give a closer look a...
Norwegian Crude Oil Reserves and Production as of 12/31/2011
In this post I present an updated view on Norwegian crude oil exploration, sanctioned developments, discoveries, production, reserves and what these now suggest for the future of Norwegian crude oil production.
The content for this post was originally ...
Tech Talk – More on Hydraulic Fracturing
There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability of different technical approaches, that limit might be less than 25% of the total volume of oil original...
Tech Talk – Improving Horizontal Well Flow at Berri and Ghawar
The very size of oil reservoirs in Saudi Arabia means that as the dominant method of water flooding is used to sweep oil to the producing wells, not all the oil in place migrates as hoped. Some remains in place and this makes up a very significant volu...
Past and Future at Total’s Elgin/Franklin Project
Four weeks after the Elgin G4 well sprung a leak above the production platform in the North Sea, Total has spudded the first of two relief wells as backup in case the attempt to kill the well from above doesn't work. It will take 6 months to drill the ...
Tech Talk – Enhancing Production at Berri
In the last post I discussed how changing technologies were improving the recovery of the final significant volumes of oil from Abqaiq. New technologies have also brought additional life to the Berri field, which lies along the coast north of Abqaiq. B...
The Myth That the US Will Soon Become an Oil Exporter
Countries trade crude oil and oil products back and forth. When all of these transactions are netted out, is the US close to becoming a “net” oil exporter?
With the recent increase in oil production (perhaps even exceeding that of Russia on...
Manifa Oil: Malodorous, But Really Not That Bad
The development of the Manifa oil field in Saudi Arabia has been accelerated recently. This is the last neo-virgin field that Saudi Aramco has in its coffers with which it can increase production capacity (by 900,000 bpd in this case) - or just remain ...
Tech Talk – Extracting the Attic Oil From Abqaiq
Current figures suggest that world liquid fuels production is running at around 90 mbd, of which roughly 74 mbd is crude. A reasonable estimate of the annual decline in existing well production lies at around 5%, so that each year new sources of oil mu...
What the New 2011 EIA Oil Supply Data Shows
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released full-year 2011 world oil production data. In this post, I would like show some graphs of recent data, and provide some views as to where this leads with respect to future production.
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Tech Talk – Production from Abqaiq, an Aging Queen
The topic of rising gas prices is pervasive, and at a breakfast meeting last Monday, Richard Williams, a friend, commented that he had seen some cores from Saudi Arabia, and that they looked so weak, he felt he could put his fist through them. It remin...
