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BP just discovered a billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico


Jan 8 2019 Tom DiChristopher

•BP discovers 1 billion barrels of oil at its Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico.
•The oil giant also says it will spend $1.3 billion to develop a third phase of its Atlantis offshore field south of New Orleans.
•BP credits its investment in advanced seismic technology for speeding up its ability to confirm the discoveries.

BP's investment in next-generation technology just paid off to the tune of a billion barrels of oil.

The British energy company has discovered 1 billion barrels of crude at an existing oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. BP also announced two new offshore oil discoveries and a major new investment in a nearby field.

BP is the Gulf of Mexico's biggest producer, and it's making strides to hold that title.

BP now expects its fossil fuel output from the region to reach 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the middle of the next decade. Today, it produces about 300,000 boepd, up from less than 200,000 boepd about five years ago.

On Tuesday, the company said it will spend $1.3 billion to develop a third phase of its Atlantis field off the coast of New Orleans. Scheduled to start production in 2020, the eight new wells will add 38,000 bpd to BP's production at Atlantis. The decision comes after BP found another 400 million barrels of oil at the field.

BP made the massive 1 billion-barrel discovery at its Thunder Horse field off the tip of Louisiana.

Executives are crediting their investment in advanced seismic technology and data processing for speeding up the company's ability to confirm the discoveries at Atlantis and Thunder Horse. BP says it once would have taken a year to analyze the Thunder Horse data, but it now takes just weeks.

"We are building on our world-class position, upgrading the resources at our fields through technology, productivity and exploration success," Bernard Looney, BP's chief executive for production and exploration, said in a statement.

Just northeast of Thunder Horse, BP also announced new discoveries at fields near its Na Kika platform.

BP says it plans to develop reservoirs at its Manuel prospect, where Shell holds a 50 percent stake. Producers also found oil at the Nearly Headless Nick prospect near Na Kika, where BP has a 20.25 percent working interest.

BP : nouveaux projets d’envergure aux États-Unis et en Afrique de l’ouest

Publié le 09/01/2019

BP vient de faire des découvertes de taille et lance de nouveaux grands projets offshore. TechnipFMC sera de la partie.



La phase 3 d’Atlantis prévoit la construction d’un système de production sous-marin associé à huit puits, qui sera relié à la plateforme existante. Le projet, qui devrait entrer en service en 2020, accroîtra la production de la plateforme de 38 000 barils équivalent pétrole/jour. (Photo : BP)

GillesH38 a écrit :Un article intéressant sur Oildrum sur la production du champ "Thunder horse" (avec la fameuse plate forme coulée au moment des ouragans de 2005). BP et Exxon avaient annoncé un milliard de barils de réserves, et une production de 250 000 bl/j. Elle n'a en fait jamais atteint cette valeur, et semble déjà décliner un an après son maximum ! il faudrait 11 ans à 250 000 bl /jour pour atteindre le milliard de barils, ça parait mal barré. Il semble qu'il faille vraiment se méfier des prévisions optimistes annoncées sur le off-shore ....

BP trouve un champ géant dans le golf du Mexique

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Bob MacKnight, a senior consultant with the Washington consulting firm PFC Energy, cautioned that while the big new discoveries were welcome news, they might not boost overall U.S. oil output because other Gulf of Mexico fields are expected to decline. "We really need this," he said. "After 2012, given current developments, we will see production start to decline. Without continued discoveries . . . that decline could be steep."

Production in the Gulf of Mexico accounts for about a quarter of total U.S. oil production, or about 1.2 million barrels a day. U.S. production in the Gulf peaked in 2003 at 1.56 million barrels a day, according to the Energy Information Administration.

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FOWLER a écrit :Et à 10 000 mètres de profondeur, ça va couter bonbon, le machin.

ça donne une idée de la profondeur de leur désespoir....

energy_isere a écrit : et c' est 10 fois moins que le champs géant déclaré trouvé par les Iraniens fin Aout 2009 ( ce post : http://forums.oleocene.org/viewtopic.ph ... 67#p249867 ) qui n' a fait bouger personne sur ce forum. D' ailleurs Boursorama eteels autres media Français n' on pas relayés l' info.

the amount of in-place oil reserve is about 8.83 billions of barrel

rico a écrit :Bon alors on peut donc fermer oléocène.

Pierre M. Boriliens a écrit :

parker1 a écrit :T'inquiète pas Rico, ça représente 10 minutes de conso des chinois....

Qu'est-ce que tu as contre les Chinois ?
En fait, c'est à peu près 10 jours de consommation mondiale, et les Chinois ne sont de loin pas les plus gros consommateurs par habitant...

les Chinois ne sont de loin pas les plus gros consommateurs par habitant...