The Mittelplate Field – Effective Field Development within a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Mittelplate Field Located within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Elbe Estuary, the Mittelplate oil field is Germany’s most productive field. However, the field’s location means it ...
The West Salym Field – Insights from an Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) Flooding Pilot
The West Salym Field The West Salym Field, located in remote western Siberia, produces oil from the Lower Cretaceous AS10-11 sandstones. Water injection began in 2005, but its ...
The Val d’Agri Field – Maximizing Production in an Environmentally Sensitive Area
The Val d'Agri Field Hidden beneath a mountainous national park, the Val d’Agri Field in Italy hosts hydrocarbons within Apulian platform carbonates. Despite having a significant STOIIP of 4500 ...
The Groningen Field – Abandoning the Largest Gas Accumulation in Europe
The Groningen Field With a GIIP of 113.2 TCF, the Groningen Field hosts the largest gas accumulation in Europe. However, the field is due to be abandoned in October ...
The Ubit Field – Utilizing New Data to Reveal Hidden Potential
The Ubit Field Located off the coast of Nigeria in the eastern Niger delta, the Ubit Field boasts a STOIIP of 2400 MMBO. Despite its great potential, combined with ...
Midway-Sunset Field – An Analogue for the Effectiveness of Thermal Recovery Techniques
The Midway-Sunset Field Located in the southern San Joaquin Basin of California and discovered in 1894, the Midway-Sunset Field is one of the largest in the USA with ...
The Snohvit CCS Project – From Over-Pressurisation to Successful Sequestration
The Snøhvit CCS Project From its initiation in 2008 to 2019, the Snøhvit CCS project successfully stored 6.5 MMt of CO2 within the Tubåen (1.1 MMt) and Stø (5.4 ...
The Sleipner CCS Project – An Active Case History for CO2 Storage in a Saline Aquifer
The Sleipner CCS Project The Sleipner CCS Project in the Norwegian North Sea began in 1996. Since then, more than 23 million tonnes of CO2 have been injected through ...
Prudhoe Bay Field – An Ideal Analogue For Miscible Gas Injection
The Prudhoe Bay Field Buried 8000 ft beneath the eponymous Alaskan inlet, the supergiant Prudhoe Bay Field contains 25 BBO and 46 TCF in Triassic braided-river and deltaic ...
Daqing Complex – The Largest Polymer & ASP Floods In The World
The Daqing Complex Daqing, the largest oil producer in China, is a complex of seven separate fields on a large inversion anticline. The three largest (Lamadian, Saertu and Xingshugang) ...
Varg Field – An Ideal Analogue for a Decommissioned Field Revival
The Varg Field The Varg Field was discovered in 1984 and put on production in 1998. The initial field development was challenging due to complex faulting and compartmentalization ...
Reitbrook Field – An Ideal Analogue for a “Rapidly Over-Developed Field”
The Reitbrook Field The Reitbrook Field, discovered in 1910, is a heavily faulted, asymmetrical anticline associated with an Upper Permian Zechstein salt diapir (Fig. 1). Production of the medium-gravity ...
Karachaganak Field – Rejuvenation of a Giant Carbonate Complex
The Karachaganak Field This week’s analogue spotlight demonstrates how good reservoir management rejuvenated one of the world’s largest gas-condensate fields. At the Karachaganak Field in Kazakhstan, up to 1800 ...
Zafiro Field – An Ideal Analogue for the use of New Seismic to Increase EUR
The Zafiro Field This week’s Analogue Spotlight focuses on the Zafiro Field (Equatorial Guinea). Oil production began only 18 months after the field’s discovery in 1995, and despite the ...
Duri Field – An Ideal Analogue For Steamflooding
The Duri Field The Duri Field in Indonesia has been producing oil from the Middle Miocene Sihapas Group since 1958. The deltaic sandstone reservoirs are very porous (34% ...