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Norway Part II – Production and Wellbores

10/23/202110/23/2021 George Kaplan 133 Comments

A Guest Post by George Kaplan

Annual Production

Overall Norwegian oil production peaked in 2000 but, thanks to the Johan Sverdrup discovery, it is heading for a secondary peak in the next couple of years. Phase I of the development started in 2019 and has design capacity of 440kboed (70kSm³/d) and Phase II is due in late 2022, raising the total capacity to 700kboed of which 535kbpd (85kSm³/d) is crude. The development uses predrilled wills over which the platforms are installed and tied-in, so ramp up was, for Phase I, and will be, for Phase II, rapid. To find a field this size in a mature basin (it is in the North Sea) is unusual, possibly unique so far in offshore oil developments.

For some years Troll has been the largest single oil producer, coming from horizontal oil wells exploiting the oil rim in one half of the field, but recently Troll III was started which produces from the gas cap above the rim, so oil production will now fall.

In the chart green bands are fields in the North Sea, blue-green those in the Norwegian Sea, and the couple of thin blue ones those in the Barents Sea. The 2021 values are only through July.

Non-OPEC June Oil Production has Small Increase

10/08/202110/08/2021 Ovi 267 Comments

A guest post by Ovi

Below are a number of oil (C + C ) production charts for Non-OPEC countries created from data provided by the EIAʼs International Energy Statistics and updated to June 2021. Information from other sources such as OPEC, the STEO and country specific sites such as Russia, Norway and China is used to provide a short term outlook for future output and direction for a few countries and the world.

Norway 2021 Part 1 (of 2): Exploration, Discoveries and Reserves

09/24/202109/24/2021 George Kaplan 297 Comments

A guest post by George Kaplan

Remaining Reserves

The increase in remaining C&C reserves that has been seen over the last few years, and has come mostly from growth in Johan Sverdrup, has run its course and there was a significant drop in 2020, even as production continued to climb. The reserve replacement ratio has been 38%, 174%, -24%, -75% for 2017 through 2020.

The Norwegian NPD does not use the standard proven/probable/possible categories but based on the way growth occurs the dark colours are close to a P1 reserve number (producing or in development in NPD terms) and the light colour represents a resources or a P3 value (production in clarification or production likely but not yet evaluated). Growth mostly is given by moving resources from the light areas to the dark. New discoveries are usually initially added to the resources.

April Non-OPEC Oil Output Declines

08/20/202108/20/2021 Ovi 237 Comments

A post by Ovi at peakoilbarrel.

Below are a number of oil (C + C ) production charts for Non-OPEC countries created from data provided by the EIAʼs International Energy Statistics and updated to April 2021. Information from other sources such as OPEC, the STEO and country specific sites such as Russia, Norway and China is used to provide a short term outlook for future output and direction for a few countries and the world.

US Rebound from Winter Storm Raises Non -Opec Production

07/10/202107/11/2021 Ovi 325 Comments

A guest post by Ovi at peakoilbarrel.

Below are a number of oil (C + C ) production charts for Non-OPEC countries created from data provided by the EIAʼs International Energy Statistics and updated to March 2021. Information from other sources such as OPEC, the STEO and country specific sites such as Russia, Norway and China is used to provide a short term outlook for future output and direction for a few countries and the world.