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Soit 1.1 à 3 Gb récupérables?The Miran West field holds between 2.3 to 4.2 billion barrels of oil, the company said in a statement, but the "highly fractured nature" of the reservoir means only 50 to 70 percent of it is recoverable.
By Edris Kisambira
Kampala - Uganda's oil reserves could be as much as that of the Gulf countries, a senior official at the US Department of Energy has said.
Based on the test flow results encountered at the wells so far drilled and other oil numbers, Ms. Sally Kornfeld, a senior analyst in the office of fossil energy went ahead to talk about Uganda's oil reservoirs in the same sentence as Saudi Arabia.
"You are blessed with amazing reservoirs. Your reservoirs are incredible. I am amazed by what I have seen, you might rival Saudi Arabia," Kornfeld told a visiting delegation from Uganda in Washington DC.
The group of Ugandans was in Washington on an international visitor programme and looked at the efficient use of natural energy resources.
The group comprised Ministry of Energy officials, a Member of Parliament, members from the civil society and one journalist.
At present, Uganda has four oil prospectors on the ground including Heritage Oil, Tullow Oil, Tower Oil and Dominion Oil.
Of the four prospectors, Tullow and Heritage have registered success at wells in two blocks in the Albertine basin, which lies in the upper-most part of the western arm of the Great Rift Valley.
According to data so far aggregated since the first discovery was made by Australian prospector Hardman Resources (now taken over by Tullow) in June2006, Uganda has established reserves at 3.5 million barrels of oil per day.
Experts in oil exploration say this could be just a tip of the iceberg.
The sites are still building pressure and production might well exceed the current figures if what has happened elsewhere like Angola is anything to go by.
Flow tests at various wells have indicated flow rates ranging from as low as 1,500 to highs of 14,000 barrels per day. According to earlier releases, the prospectors are now certain that the commercial threshold for development has been exceeded.
Mr. Aidan Heavy, Tullow Oil's chief executive officer revealed early in the year that they assigned a dedicated team of experts to deliver a commercial development plan for the entire basin.
In April last year, Tullow embarked on what it termed as a major drilling campaign in the Butiaba area around Lake Albert targeting an overall reserve potential in excess of a billion barrels.
The Butiaba campaign was preceded by successes in two drilling campaigns in the Kaiso-Tonya area and the Kingfisher field and all these have been100% successes so far.
The Butiaba campaign has thrown up successes but the two biggest so far have been the Buffalo-Giraffe wells - described as "one of the largest recent onshore oil discoveries in Africa".
"Combined with our other finds in the region, we have now clearly exceeded the thresholds for basin development," the chief executive of Tullow commented then.
The Giraffe-1 exploration well, which is located in the Butiaba region, came up with over 38 metres of net oil pay within an 89-metre gross oil bearing interval.
The data from the Giraffe discovery indicate a net reservoir thickness of 38 metres, the largest encountered in the area to date.
The Buffalo-1 exploration well in Block 1 encountered 15 metres of net gas pay and over 28 metres of net oil pay.
The gas and oil columns encountered are 48 metres and 75 metres respectively with the potential to be even larger.
As Kornfeld marveled at Uganda's oil finds, she was quick to add that for the country to benefit from the oil and gas resources but also avoid the pitfalls of oil producing countries like Nigeria, it is extremely important to set up strong governance structures.
Kornfeld and the other United States officials said they are ready to help Uganda's nascent oil and gas sector with anything including the key environmental issues that are crucial to the efficient management of oil and gas.
"Anything you might want us to help you with we will and we have a lot of expertise in environmental issues relating to oil and gas," Kornfeld said.
Original date published: 2 June 2009
Source Url: http://allafrica.com/stories/2009060205 ... ?viewall=1
Etant donné les distances ce n'est pas réaliste comme taille de véhicule. Disons si les américains roulaient en Ford Mondeo (Ford made in Germany) ils feraient déjà mieux que diviser leur consommation par deux.akochan a écrit :Si les americains se mettaient a rouler en 207 ou en C3 il y aurait une grosse diminution de la consommation mais bon cela ne sera valable que si le petrole retourne vers les 100 dollars.
Pire que çà! Mon beau pere qui hésitait entre une PAC et une chaudiere fuel pour remplacer sa vielle chaudiere fuel; et bien il veut la chaudière fuel vu le prix du pétrole récemment.akochan a écrit :Une raison de plus de faire refluer le petrole vers les 25 dollars.
Il y a deux mois je payais le litre de diesel a 0,99 et hier je l'ai paye a 1,09 euros toujours chez total.
Si les americains se mettaient a rouler en 207 ou en C3 il y aurait une grosse diminution de la consommation mais bon cela ne sera valable que si le petrole retourne vers les 100 dollars.
Hier je parlais avec mon chauffagiste. Il me disait que l'an dernier en septembre, il etait deborde de demandes pour l'installation de pompes a chaleur.
Depuis le reflue du petrole vers les 35 dollars il n'a quasi plus de demandes. Comme quoi l'opinion du consommateur reflue lui aussi comme les courbes du WTI
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Occidental Petroleum Announces Significant California Oil and Gas Discovery
LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) announced today that it has made a significant discovery of oil and gas reserves in Kern County, California.
Occidental believes there are between 150 million and 250 million gross barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) reserves within the outlined area where Oxy has drilled six wells to date to delineate the discovery. The multi-pay zone discovery area, whose areal geological extent is still being defined, has both conventional and unconventional pay zones. The bulk of the discovery's producing zones are conventional oil and gas bearing formations.
Occidental's interest in the discovery area is approximately 80 percent. Approximately two-thirds of the discovery is believed to be natural gas.
"We believe this to be the largest new oil and gas discovery made in California in more than 35 years," said Dr. Ray R. Irani, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
"It is probable that there are additional reserves outside the defined area, and it is possible that structures of this type exist elsewhere in Oxy's 1.1 million net acre position in California. We plan to drill wells to exploit these opportunities over the next 5 to 10 years," Dr. Irani said.
Oxy is currently the largest natural gas producer and third-largest oil producer in the state of California, where the company has produced oil and gas for more than 50 years. Oxy's assets in the state include more than 7,500 active wells located in 90 fields, spanning 600 miles. Oxy's California proved reserves were 708 million BOE at year-end 2008 and represent approximately 24 percent of Oxy's worldwide reserves.
http://www.ogj.com/index/article-displa ... __gas.htmlOGDC finds oil, gas with Nashpa well in Pakistan
By an OGJ correspondent KARACHI, Sept. 4
Pakistan Oil & Gas Development Co. (OGDC) has discovered oil and natural gas with its Nashpa No. 1 exploratory well, drilled in Karak district in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province.
The well flowed 3,000 b/d of oil and 9.7 MMcfd of natural gas mmcf per day of gas on a 32/64-in. choke at 2,340 psi flowing wellhead pressure. The well is a joint venture of OGDC, PPL 30%, and Government Holdings (Pvt.) Ltd. 5%. The well, which was spudded on June 29, was drilled to a target depth of 4,384 m.
OGDC also made an oil and gas discovery with its Baloch No. 1 exploratory well on Sinjhoro Block in Sindh province’s Sanghar district.
The well was drilled to a target depth of 3,463 m. The well flowed 780 b/d of oil and 3.5 MMcfd of gas on a 32/64-in. choke with 880 psi wellhead flowing pressure.
Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries
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It is normal for companies to discover billions of barrels of new oil every year, but this year’s pace is unusually brisk. New oil discoveries have totaled about 10 billion barrels in the first half of the year, according to IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. If discoveries continue at that pace through year-end, they are likely to reach the highest level since 2000.
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Alors c' est cette histoire de Mars 2007 qui ressort http://forums.oleocene.org/viewtopic.ph ... 56#p113556Raminagrobis a écrit :Face au déclin irréversible de leur production en mer du nord, dans la marge atlantique, dans la manche et en onshore, les britanniques cherchent du pétrole ailleurs. Ils pourraient avoir une province géologique prometteuses sous la main : aux malouines (falklands)..............