With active exploration taking place offshore South Africa later in 2018, the new administration’s commitment to finalizing its oil and gas law could encourage more foreign investment. Source: News
Continuous pack-off inflow control device lowers water cut in trial offshore China
Researchers lowered the water cut and increased production while trialing a continuous pack-off inflow control device (CP+ICD) in an offshore horizontal well in 300 m of water in Liuhua oil field, eastern South China Sea. Source: News
Regulatory repair
They’ll call it an assault on environmental protection. Pressure groups and their friends in politics and the media will complain that the Environmental Protection Agency has advanced its unholy campaign against regulation yet again. Source: News
Simulation studies of steam recovery processes in offshore China heavy oil reservoirsÂÂ
Researchers run numerical simulations and field tests using cyclic steam stimulation, steam drive, and steam-assisted gravity drainage at different types of heavy oil reservoirs in China’s Bohai field offshore to find the best production strategies based on reservoir characteristics. Source: News
IOR and geosciences
Industry has expanded the definition of improved oil recovery (IOR) and advanced its application to economically produce more of the world’s oil that already has been discovered. Source: News
EOR using alumina nanofluids increases rock wettability
Researchers ran a series of core flooding experiments in a Western Desert field in Egypt to study how different alumina nanofluid concentrations affect brine displacement, relative permeability curves, rock wettability, and ultimate estimated recovery. Source: News
Basin-centered gas accumulation play developed for western Turkey
Valeura’s Yamalik-1 discovery well is opening a basin-centered gas play in western Turkey’s Thrace basin. Source: News
Selling US LNG to Europe requires commercial terms, speakers say
Europe’s natural gas market is evolving from politically driven projects to commercial agreements, and US suppliers will need to move more aggressively on those terms if they expect to be a substantive part of it, speakers suggested at a Mar. 22 conference. Source: News
Court rejects NYSDEC's appeal of FERC's Valley Lateral ruling
A US federal appeals court denied the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s appeal of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision that NYSDEC waived authority to issue or deny a water-quality certification for the Millennium natural gas pipeline’s 7.8-mile Valley Lateral when the state agency did not act within the federal Clean Water Act’s Section […]
ADNOC signs deals with Total, CNPC for offshore concessions
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has signed agreements with Total SA and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) in which the French and Chinese companies will be awarded stakes in Abu Dhabi’s new offshore concessions. Source: News