Project Feasibility study
PetroChina to secure its oil supply chain from Athabasca Fort McMurray to Kitimat, BC Step by step the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina), is putting in place all the pieces of its upstream puzzle from Athabasca, Alberta oil sands fields to Kitimat, BC. In 2011, PetroChina payed $1.9 billion capital expenditure to Athabasca Oil […]
Definition SAGD is the acronym of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage. The Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage is a process to produce oil from tar-sands. Comments The SAGD process has been developed in Ontario, then in Alberta by Imperial Oil (ExxonMobil) in the years 1970s. Canada holds the most important reserves of extra heavy crude oil, also called […]
ENI and GDF-Suez combine FEED and EPC bids to speed up Indonesian Muara Bakau development After the successfully appraisal of the Jangkrik natural gas discovery, ENI and GDF-Suez intend to speed up the development of the Muara Bakau PSC, Kutei Basin, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Overall, in Indonesia, ENI is very active as it holds working interests […]
Atum discovery proves Rovuma prolific to Anadarko The Atum natural gas field is located approximately at 16 killometers distance from the previous Golfinho discovery to the Northwest within the Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin. In the Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma basin, Anadarko Petroleum Company (Anadarko) and its partners share working interests as: […]
Definition BOP is the acronym of Blow Out Preventer or Blowout Preventer. The Blow Out Preventer (BOP) is a safety equipment to prevent the well to blowout. Designed and engineered for high oil and gas pressures, it is installed on the top of the well casing to contain anything to pass through and generate sub-sea leakages […]
Definition Tie-back in the offshore oil and gas upstream activities refer to the connection of additional risers to the floating vessel or platform. Comments Originally the offshore oil and gas industry used to focus on large fields that could be explored and produced in drilling strait below the floating vessel or the platform. But the high […]
Statoil, Petoro and Exxon to tie-back Svalin to Grane Svalin is made of two fields, Svalin M which was discovered in 2008 and Svalin C which was discovered in 1992. Svalin is located in Block 25/11 in the North Sea, between the Grane and Balder fields, about six kilometers south-west of the Grane platform at […]
Definition Depletion refers to the decline of production of an oil or gas field. Depletion may also be used for accounting in a similar way as depreciation to allow an owner or operator to account for the reduction of a product’s reserves. For tax purposes, there are two types of depletion; cost depletion and percentage depletion. Comments […]
