Olietopic #10 - Prijs per vat rond de 75 dollar

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Falklands oil prospects stir Anglo-Argentinian tensions

Four British firms set to drill for oil north of Falkland Islands, in move Argentina calls a 'violation of sovereignty'

It does not look like much: a jumble of pipes, containers and drilling equipment sitting on a windswept jetty at Port Stanley.

The hardware, however, signals an imminent search for oil and gas that could turn the Falkland Islanders into south Atlantic oil barons, a prospect that has already triggered a dispute between Britain and Argentina.

A rig, the Ocean Guardian, is due to arrive by mid-February and will almost immediately begin drilling for hydrocarbon deposits 100 miles north of the archipelago.

Geological surveys suggest there could be up to 60bn barrels beneath the seabed around the British territory, a bonanza that would transform islands famed for sheep, fish and remoteness.
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Guyana is hopeful about its offshore oil and gas future

Part of Guyana’s serious border problems were resolved in 2007, when a Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) tribunal ruled in the country’s favor in its maritime dispute with Suriname. Toronto-based CGX Energy, whose offshore rig was forced off by Surinamese gunboats in 2000, was delighted by the ruling.

CGX has three licenses offshore Guyana and 9.8 million acres in the country. Spain’s Repsol YPF, has a 75% interest in the 2.8 million-acre Georgetown license, with CGX holding 25%.

The United States Geological Survey’s World Petroleum Assessment 2000 estimates offshore Guyana housing as much as 42Tcf of gas and 15.2 billion barrels of oil.

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Canadian company to commence oil drilling offshore Guyana in 2010

CGX Energy Inc has announced its plans to begin drilling for oil in its Corentyne Guyana concession by the second half of 2010, the company s chairman and Chief Executive Kerry Sully said on Saturday, following a meeting with President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo.

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Shell Pioneers Oil Exploration Off Guyana in South America
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The theory that the same oil-bearing geological formations may exist on both sides of an ocean has similarly directed attention to Angola after the 2007 discovery of the Tupi oil fields in Brazil. As HeatingOil.com reported on October 19, Brazil is now the world’s fifteenth largest oil producer and the second largest in South America following Venezuela.
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Op woensdag 10 februari 2010 01:12 schreef Dlocks het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd of Nederland het dan wederom zal steunen (i.v.m. Maxima)

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http://peakoiltaskforce.net/
On 10 February 2010 at the Royal Society, six UK companies - Arup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group and Virgin - joined together to launch the second report of the UK Industry Task-Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES).

The report, titled “The Oil Crunch - a wake-up call for the UK economy”, finds that oil shortages, insecurity of supply and price volatility will destabilise economic, political and social activity within five years.

The Task-Force warns that the UK must not be caught out by the oil crunch in the same way it was with the credit crunch and states that policies to address Peak Oil must be a priority for the new government formed after the 2010 election.

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Oil exploration costs rocket as risks rise

LONDON (Reuters) - Finding oil and gas to replace the world's fast dwindling reserves is increasingly risky as rigs probe areas once seen as too difficult or too dangerous, and costs are rocketing, which could imperil future supply.

The cost of discovering each new barrel of oil and gas has risen three-fold over the last decade as technology has pushed the frontiers of exploration into ever more remote areas.

As old fields run dry, oil companies are drilling wells in some of the most inhospitable regions, where political, physical, geological, geographical, technical and contractual risks are high, and they have had remarkable success.

Despite escalating challenges, the annual rate of discovery of new fields has remained remarkably constant at 15-20 billion barrels, more than enough to compensate for the loss of existing reserves that are declining at between 5 and 15 percent a year.

But the cost of this success is staggering, and unless consumers pay more for oil in future, some analysts think we could face an energy supply crunch within a few years.

"The age of cheap oil has gone and it is not going to come back," said Paul Stevens, senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London.

"The world is not going to run out of oil tomorrow, but it is more and more expensive to find and will continue to be so," he said. "The worry is that investment may be squeezed as risks rise, and that could bring us to a looming supply crunch."
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Op donderdag 11 februari 2010 17:30 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Geen idee wat ze daar allemaal meetellen aan discoveries, maar ontdekte olie piekte al in de jaren '60:
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