Improving Production from Mature Fields - Petromall Insights Apr 18   Apr 2018

What technologies and methods could lead to a step change improvement in how we develop small fields?

The April 2018 issue of Petromall Insights, the pdf magazine produced by Finding Petroleum's partner consultancy Petromall, is available for download, focussing on technologies and methods which could lead to a step change improvement in how we develop small fields.

• Starting with the end in mind
• Managed pressure drilling - more reliable
• subsea pumps
• Getting UK's "small pools" into production
• Floating production buoys

With contributions / reviews of io oil & gas consulting, Fox Geo, Fuglesangs Subsea, Wood Mackenzie, OGTC, Crondall Energy, Chris Wheaton, Rob Gill. View Magazine

Report from Feb 21 event "Opportunities in Mature Provinces and Super Basins"   Mar 2018

The Super Basins concept
Kimmeridge and ramping up in the Permian
Drilling 48 wells per square mile
What a factory approach offshore would mean
Standardised offshore unmanned platforms
Better ways to finance offshore developments
Finding oil in stratigraphic traps View Magazine

Jan 23rd "Understanding Fractured Reservoirs & Rocks" event   Mar 2018

• Hurricane Energy - developing the Lancaster fractured basement field
• ERC Equipoise - how to estimate recovery from fractured reservoirs
• How understanding the origin of fractures can help
• Combining stress (geomechanics) and flow simulations
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Report from Oct 11 2017 event "Non-seismic Geophysical Technologies and Non-Conventional Seismic"   Mar 2018

• How electromagnetics could have changed the drilling sequence creaming curve in the Barents
• Fibre optics in wells to record seismic - now competitive with ocean bottom nodes?
• Improving workflows for non-seismic data - one data set can help you better understand another

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Report from Oct 17 2017 "Finding Oil in Central & South America"   Feb 2018

Regional theme: bouncing between state
ownership and encouraging private investment
Sierra Oil and Gas’ approach to Mexico - joint
winner of the first blocks awarded to private
companies
What Mexican geology has to offer
Premier Oil’s plans for Brazilian deepwater
Managing investment risk in South America
Opportunities offshore Argentina identified by
Spectrum
Oil policy and security risks View Magazine