Mar 19 2018 | Westwood Insight
19th March 2018 The play opening billion-barrel Jubilee oil discovery in Ghana in 2007 triggered a decade of exploration drilling chasing analogues in the deep water Central Atlantic margins, from Mauritania to Cameroon in West Africa margin and from Guyana to NE Brazil in South America (Figure 1). Many were enticed into the play but the […]
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7th March 2018 FLNG projects require significant capital investments, thus access to financing is a critical contributor to project sanctioning and success. Despite the FLNG liquefaction concept having been around for decades, only three units are in the water and operational or under commissioning as of 2018. Petronas and Shell, with a wealth of knowledge and […]
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26th February 2018 The West of Shetland (WoS) region is not a new province, but it is still one which is under-explored, at least by UKCS standards. Exploration in the region commenced in 1972 and since then a total of 160 exploration well programmes have been conducted (just 6% of total UKCS exploration). Geologically the WoS […]
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19th February 2018 Corrosion resistant alloys (CRAs) are back in demand. The supply chain is preparing for an uptick in deliveries as a growing proportion of field developments require high quality downhole tubulars. Sour gas fields and high pressure high temperature (HPHT) wells typically require stainless, duplex or Nickel alloys to reliably transport production from reservoir […]
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5th February 2018 Half of oil and gas fields are not producing to expectations when onstream, and a new Westwood study shows that this is mainly due to unexpected reservoir issues. 70% of the fields studied with limited appraisal were found not to perform to the development plan. Most of the subsurface risks identified could have […]
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31th January 2018 US onshore oilfield services companies received positive signs from the equity markets this month. Liberty Oilfield Services’ (“LBRT”) initial public offering performance showed promise for the hydraulic fracturing market; up 5% to $22.93. A week later, Vista Proppants & Logistics (“VPRL”) filed for its initial public offering to become the first pure-play regional […]
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23rd January 2018 Offshore – dead and buried, thanks to onshore shale? Not quite. The OFS world moves fast. Data from the Energent team in Houston indicates that consumption of sand for hydraulic fracturing in the onshore US market hit new highs of over 30 billion lbs (13.6 billion kg) in Q2 last year, topping the […]
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15th January 2018 Decommissioning – it’s now a word well entrenched in the mind set and indeed the operations of those involved in the North Sea Oil & Gas industry. With c.$102bn of decommissioning related expenditure forecast to 2040 in Western Europe, it represents a significant opportunity for a supply chain which has proven itself willing […]
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8th January 2018 A ten year low in oil discoveries in Norway in 2017 doesn’t deter an expected increase in drilling in 2018, whilst performance continues to improve in the UK with the focus switching to gas for 2018. In 2017, there was a shift towards high impact exploration drilling in both the UK and Norway. […]
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18th December 2017 Global high-impact* exploration in 2017 is expected to match 2016 in both activity and success rates, and with a marked improvement in commercial oil volumes discovered and lower finding costs. High impact drilling commercial success rates have remained constant around the 1 in 4 level for the past 5 years, but in 2017 […]
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