Giant Fields of the Decade 2000–2010

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. K. Merrill ◽  
C. A. Sternbach
Keyword(s):  
Giant Fields

scholarly journals Recovery rates, enhanced oil recovery and technological limits

2014 ◽  
Vol 372 (2006) ◽  
pp. 20120320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Muggeridge ◽  
Andrew Cockin ◽  
Kevin Webb ◽  
Harry Frampton ◽  
Ian Collins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Giant Fields ◽  
Broad Consensus

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques can significantly extend global oil reserves once oil prices are high enough to make these techniques economic. Given a broad consensus that we have entered a period of supply constraints, operators can at last plan on the assumption that the oil price is likely to remain relatively high. This, coupled with the realization that new giant fields are becoming increasingly difficult to find, is creating the conditions for extensive deployment of EOR. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, status and prospects for EOR technologies. It explains why the average oil recovery factor worldwide is only between 20% and 40%, describes the factors that contribute to these low recoveries and indicates which of those factors EOR techniques can affect. The paper then summarizes the breadth of EOR processes, the history of their application and their current status. It introduces two new EOR technologies that are beginning to be deployed and which look set to enter mainstream application. Examples of existing EOR projects in the mature oil province of the North Sea are discussed. It concludes by summarizing the future opportunities for the development and deployment of EOR.

Giant Fields in the Sirt Basin, Libya

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.I. Abuhajar ◽  
M. Roohi
Keyword(s):  
Giant Fields ◽  
Sirt Basin

PETROLEUM RESOURCES OF OFFSHORE SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Ian McPhee
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Deep Basin ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Petroleum Resources ◽  
Giant Fields ◽  
Gippsland Basin ◽  
Great Australian Bight

THE GIPPSLAND Basin is established as a prolific producer of oil and gas from a number of giant fields and other major discoveries are yet to be developed. Further discoveries can be expected in this petroliferous basin which has good future exploration potential. The Bass Basin has been disappointing as commercial discoveries have eluded the explorers. However source and reservoir rocks are present and the basin has future promise if the key to the nature of accumulations can be found. The Otway and Great Australian Bight Basins cover a vast area and include very thick potential source formations and good reservoir facies. Thick sedimentary sequences in the deep basin have been little explored and no significant shows encountered. The basins have potential but there are exploration difficulties to be overcome before full potential can be understood.

GEOLOGICAL REASONING FOR THE PETROLEUM SOURCE ROCKS OF KNOWN FIELDS

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
R.E. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Petroleum Geology ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
Water Composition ◽  
The World ◽  
Distinct Source ◽  
Wax Content ◽  
Giant Fields

Geological reasoning for the petroleum source-migration-accumulation relationships centres around petroleum composition and its variability, water composition and its variability, and stratigraphy. For example, a field with several pools of petroleum of different compositions is likely to have been sourced from several distinct source rocks that are stratigraphically associated with the reservoir rocks. If water compositions are also variable, the conclusion is reinforced. A field with several pools of petroleum of similar quality was sourced either from similar source rocks that are stratigraphically associated with the reservoirs, or from a single source that is removed from the accumulations. There are also considerations of wax content, environment of deposition of the reservoir sequence, sand/shale ratios, and faulting.Geological reasoning does not always lead to the same conclusions as geochemical reasoning. Such cases are particularly important for petroleum geology because they should lead us to a better understanding of the source-migration-accumulation relationships. Some of the remaining giant oil accumulations of the world may be in areas that would be discarded on geochemical evidence. Most of the crude oil remaining to be discovered will be in relatively few giant fields, so misunderstanding could jeopardize our future supplies.

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