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Deepwater discoveries led the charge as "exploration" is back "in the first half, with oil majors and in particular ExxonMobil's wells in French Guiana, according to a report.
The oil of the American supermajor is found in The prolific block of Stabroek accounted for 30% of all volumes discovered during the first six months of the year, the company said. British research Wood Mackenzie in his latest report on wild cats
. of wells drilled globally in the first half, the combined 16% of deep and ultra-deep waters were more productive, with 74% of the 3.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent of discovered resources coming solely from ultra-deep waters.
"The best exploration finds come from new areas, and Guyana is actually an example of a new basin," Andrew Latham, vice president of research, global exploration at Upstream, told Upstream. WoodMac
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Some of these new pieces are also found in areas with large oil discoveries, such as Alaska, he said.
The most important discovery of this period was Eni Calypso finds Cyprus .In between 6 trillion cubic feet and 8 Tcf of high quality gas, it is almost double the next greatest discovery of the period , the Ranger of ExxonMobil off Guiana, which WoodMac estimated at more than 500 million boe.
Longtail and Pacora on Stabroek figured also among the top five with around 300 million bee each, as well as Equinor Tanzania's discovery of the Pygmy Gas that WoodMac put about the same.
ExxonMobil aims for the second date Liza FPSO
ExxonMobil was right ahead of Eni in terms of resources discovered in the first half, both at 600 million boe or more. The French giant Total was not far behind, with independent Hess and Nexen in the top five as partners at Stabroek. Equinor, Shell, Petrobangla (with well Bhola North-1 in Bangladesh), Petronas and CNOOC Ltd completed the top 10.
Latham sees many opportunities for other discoveries in the basin Guyana-Suriname – by ExxonMobil and its partners as well as other players with acreage in the region.
"I think the address is pretty good and it's too early to say that the room is limited," he said. All their discoveries came on their huge block of Stabroek. I know that (ExxonMobil and its partners) are not even particularly advanced in their own inventory of prospects on this acreage.
"There are many other areas on the trend, and it would be surprising if the eventual playground is limited to that. a block – I think we will see more discoveries on other parcels that are not ExxonMobil 's.
The next ExxonMobil well on the block will be Hammerhead-1, located about 15 kilometers southwest of Liza's original discovery. Latham said that the month of August was favorable to the drilling of Tullow Oil
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Chevron prepares well Twickenham
Other wells to watch for in the second half highlighted by WoodMac include tracking Ballymore in the Gulf of the United States, Twickenham as well as Total Etzil-1 in Mexico, Pemex Asab-1 and Yaaxtaab-1 – both off Mexico – Delphini-1 of ExxonMobil off Cyprus and its Hairtail-1 and Baldwin-1 wild cats in the Gippsland Basin off Victoria, Australia
Latham chose Tullow's Wildcat Cormorant-1 on PEL 37 off Namibia. Drilling is expected to begin in September with drilling vessel Ocean Rig Poseidon, who will then drill another well off Namibia for Chariot Oil & Gas before heading to Angola to drill an unidentified major [19659003]. The greatest hope – I think it's 120 million barrels or more – but it's one of the many that they have, "said Latham about Cormorant [19659003] "The risks are mainly gambling risks,"
"The tax conditions in Namibia are excellent and there is tremendous appetite for the development of any success that you could do there, so it would be great commercial for Tullow's "there"
Total, Ocean Rig concludes an agreement on the unity of Angola
Also remarkable, BP Aspy-D11 takes advantage of the Nova Scotia, where drilling has only resumed recently after the discovery of a mud leak.
"They had some problems with the top hole for the least, but that potentially opens up a lot of this area," Latham said.
"It's a pretty risky risk, let's be clear – much more likely to be dry than successful." But if it is successful, the implications are very broad. "
One s & # Expected that Total would enter the Brulpadda-1X off South Africa at the end of the year. However, Alex Connelly, a global research analyst at WoodMac, now sees this being pushed early in 2019.
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