US October Oil Production Declines

Ovi 84 Comments

A post by Ovi at peakoilbarrel

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All of the oil (C + C) production data for the US state charts comes from the EIAʼs Petroleum Supply monthly PSM. After the production charts, an analysis of three EIA monthly reports that project future US production is provided. The charts below are updated to October 2020 for the 10 largest US oil producing states.

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UK North Sea Summary Part I: Licensing, Drilling, Discoveries and Development

George Kaplan 65 Comments
A Guest Post by George Kaplan

Discoveries and Development

The global peak in oil and gas production for UK occurred in 1999 and 2000, probably delayed by four or five years by the Piper Alpha tragedy, and will not be approached, far less exceeded, again. There have been two other local peaks, each one preceded by about ten to twelve years by a local peak in the number of discoveries. The UK Oil and Gas Authority does not publish individual field resources, but it’s a fair bet that the large fields were discovered early on and most of the recent discoveries are small, near field tie-ins.

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