Petroleum reserves
The three featured papers illustrate how emerging computational methods—ranging from gradient-based optimization to data-driven proxies—are reshaping reservoir characterization, uncertainty assessment, and real-time decision support across diverse subsurface applications.
Latest 5-year assessment puts undiscovered technically recoverable gas resources on the US Outer Continental Shelf at 218 Tcf.
Westwood links 2026 exploration outcomes to policies, with operators offshore Norway finding seven times more resources than those offshore the UK.
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The paper provides insight into managing reserves and resource information during a merger through description of a case study. -
The authors present a countrywide benchmarking of ultimate recovery factor for oil reservoirs in Kuwait.
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The authors write that the deterministic incremental reserve assessment method may mislead investors if used wrongly.
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E&P independent Energean has awarded Halliburton a contract to provide services for drilling up to five wells offshore Israel in collaboration with Stena Drilling.
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The complete paper outlines some of the challenges involved in late-life field management and how Reserves assessment may be affected.
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During the past decade, hundreds of unconventional oil and gas projects have failed to deliver the value sought by shareholders.
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Even without the black swan event of COVID-19, the industry must critically examine the technical, commercial, and operational bases of the projects it proposes and executes. A logical, reasonable, ethical, and philosophical approach is critical to underpin good decision making and value creation.
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The UAE produced 4 million B/D this year and is looking to these newly discovered resources to reach 5 million B/D by 2030.
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This latest find means the offshore driller has averaged at least three new discoveries each year since it began drilling offshore Guyana where it plans to recover up to 8 billion barrels of crude.
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ExxonMobil is reluctant to join other big oil companies writing down the value of their reserves. It could chop its reserves by 20%, but it has not made a final decision.
